"I'm hopeful this can happen with some simple conservation measures." Experts thrilled after capturing video of gargantuan ...

Clara Bow wasn't the first flapper on screen, but she was certainly a role model for young women of the era. She didn't play by the rules, and was tabloid fodder for years for her sexual escapades ...

What Is a Toilet Flapper? As someone who likes to repair toilets, I was taken aback by the idea that there is more than one kind of toilet flapper. Sure, I’ve seen lots of canisters and tower ...

The flapper, float, and fill valve are all common causes of running toilets. Fortunately, they're all fairly easy to test and then replace if you find an issue.

Even if you replace the flapper, it may not fit correctly, or there may be damage to the rim sealed by the flapper. Try feeling around the rim of the flush valve for divots, cracks or deposits.

In A Flapper’s Appeal to Parents, which appeared in the December 6, 1922, issue of Outlook Magazine, the writer and self-defined flapper Elllen Welles Page makes a plea to the older generation ...

The glamorous, shimmering flapper in her slinky dress and stylish bob seemed to emerge into American life out of nowhere after the First World War, but the term was already familiar by then.

Originally published in the September 9, 1925 edition of The New Republic.Jane’s a flapper. That is a quaint, old-fashioned term, but I hope you remember its meaning. As you can tell by her ...

Flapper frocks can easily fall into fancy dress if you team them with retro hair, make-up and accessories. So, unless it’s a Christmas costume party, leave the ostrich fan, feather headband and ...