Archaeologists have uncovered a 2,100-year-old sling bullet in Israel inscribed with a pointed message aimed at enemy forces. The scientists found the bullet in a necropolis area along an ancient road at Hippos, once a prominent bishop’s seat during the Byzantine era. The city was known as Susita during the Hellenistic period, which lasted from … Read more
A historic baseball moment will forever be remembered for being overshadowed by an in-game manager interview. Those waiting for the first Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge Wednesday may have felt underwhelmed since it happened while Netflix conducted an interview with Giants manager Tony Vitello. The broadcast showed Yankees shortstop Jose Caballero touched his helmet to challenge … Read more
With her new book, history professor Helen Zoe Veit tackles a fraught, emotionally charged, controversial subject: kids being fussy eaters. The prevailing modern wisdom is that “children have biologically keen taste buds, that children are naturally sensitive to texture and color, and that children are evolutionarily cautious about new things,” she writes in “Picky: How … Read more
A medal awarded at the first modern Olympic Games smashed auction estimates, selling for about four times its expected price at a Danish auction house on March 1. The silver medal from the 1896 Athens Olympics was hammered down for $179,920 excluding buyer’s premium at Bruun Rasmussen Arts Auctioneers’ online sale. The piece had been … Read more
After exactly 120 years, the curtain has fallen on the Theater District institution Barbetta, with the iconic Italian restaurant having served its final course Friday night. “It left such an impact on people,” said Suzanna Gardijan, who has been working at Barbetta for 38 years as its Private Events Manager. “Everybody’s coming back tonight just … Read more
New year, same old liver? After all those holiday indulgences, many people feel the need to hit the “reset” button with a detox or cleanse for a fresh-start fix. These practices date back thousands of years — think Cleopatra’s sour donkey milk baths to preserve beauty and youthfulness, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg’s yogurt enemas to … Read more
Beverly D’Angelo took matters into her own hands and made movie history. After “National Lampoon’s Vacation” (1983) and “National Lampoon’s European Vacation” (1985), the Griswolds returned to deliver more chaos in 1989’s “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.” The film starred D’Angelo and Chevy Chase, along with Randy Quaid, Juliette Lewis, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, among others. D’Angelo … Read more
Once a vision of tomorrow — now a project of today. A crumbling NYC architectural marvel that notably doubled as an alien spaceship in the 1997 movie “Men in Black” is finally getting its comeback — with a $50 million glow-up fit for a Hollywood reboot. The New York State Pavilion — the soaring, space-age … Read more
When Americans sat down to Christmas dinner in 1918, the meal wasn’t just a celebration — it was an act of patriotism. During World War I, the US Food Administration urged households to save wheat, sugar, meat and fats so more food could be shipped to troops overseas — and it backed a cookbook, “Win the War … Read more
On a chilly January night in 1924, fledgling publisher Richard Simon was having dinner with his Aunt Wixie when she asked if he knew where she could buy a book of crossword puzzles. None existed. At the time, the crossword was little more than a decade old and it had only appeared in newspapers, namely … Read more
Singer Elton John said in an interview last week that if President Donald Trump managed to end AIDS, he would be “one of the greatest presidents” of all time. The “Tiny Dancer” spoke with Variety on Tuesday about his namesake AIDS Foundation and the support he has received from Republican lawmakers such as Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., in the … Read more
Zachary Levi has traded in his superhero suit for a true-life story steeped in faith and American history. The “Sarah’s Oil” star exclusively told Fox News Digital the reason this film is finally being made reveals more about Hollywood than anyone expected. When asked why Hollywood ignored it for so long, Levi didn’t hesitate to answer. … Read more
Purple reign. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ most famous “election night look” is about to go under the hammer — and no, it’s not a ballgown. It’s the violet-colored maternity coat she wore while eight months pregnant, as her husband was announced as the next American president on Nov. 8, 1960. The purple wool coat that crowned … Read more
This real-life Titanic passenger’s heart did go on — in a century-old love letter. James Cameron’s 1997 blockbuster “Titanic” famously revolved around the romance between Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jack Dawson and Kate Winslet’s Rose DeWitt Bukater — two fictional characters created by Cameron himself. But now, a never-before-seen letter has revealed that there actually was a … Read more
“The United States came out of violence,” the historian Maya Jasanoff reminds us in our series “The American Revolution” (premiering tonight on PBS). And in 1776, the awful violence of war was centered in and around New York City. Between late August and mid-November, five significant battles were fought within New York City’s present-day borders … Read more
Ken Burns’ upcoming six-part, 12-hour documentary “The American Revolution” doesn’t just tell the story of icons like George Washington or Benjamin Franklin. The series, which premieres Sunday on PBS, brings to life the ordinary people — teenagers, women, free black Americans, immigrants, and ne’er-do-wells — who history usually crops out of the frame. We all … Read more
This Thanksgiving will cost the average American almost $1,000, new research has revealed. That’s according to a survey of 2,000 U.S. adults who celebrate Thanksgiving, split evenly by generation. Results found that those polled will spend an average of $175 on food alone this year and another $110 on drinks. But meal time necessities aren’t … Read more
Documentary maker Ken Burns doesn’t think today’s polarized politics are anything new, especially for a country that, as he sees it, already had two civil wars — the American Revolution of 1776 and the 1861 war between the Union and Confederacy. “Every era thinks they’re Chicken Little, the sky is falling,” Burns said in an interview … Read more
For more than two centuries, the Farmers’ Almanac has been sought out by Americans from all walks of life — from farmers to presidents — for its weather predictions and folksy advice. Or was. After publishing their 2026 edition, the beloved mainstay will cease publication, the organization behind the beloved tradition announced on Thursday. “It … Read more
They don’t want to fall back on the old way of doing things. Daylight saving time will end on Sunday morning, with 48 states setting their clocks back an hour in order to steal more sunshine in the morning. However, the change could soon become a thing of the past, as more states push to … Read more