Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Rudolph Isley, a founding member of The Isley Brothers, has died. He was 84. The singer "died peacefully in his sleep" on Wednesday morning in Illinois, his daughter ...

Rudolph was introduced more than a century later, in Robert L. May’s 1939 children’s storybook Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. While these reindeer are depicted as male, animal experts say ...

There was his nose, to begin with. In the first version of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” it glowed “like the eyes of a cat,” and Rudolph’s friends nicknamed him Ruddy because of it.

The beloved American children's classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was published in 1939 by the Montgomery Ward department store. So it's tempting to think of it—like Campbell's Green Bean ...