By any measure, Charles Lindbergh and his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, were extraordinary people — he the valiant aviator, she an acclaimed writer. The couple’s enduring union was its own feat of daring. Theirs was far from a marriage of true minds, and yet the two stayed together for 45 years, until his death. Charles … Read more
After nearly three decades of saving the San Fernando Valley’s past, one treasured Los Angeles museum is begging the public to save its future. The Valley Relics Museum — which houses more than 30,000 vintage artifacts inside two massive airport hangars at Van Nuys Airport — has launched an urgent GoFundMe campaign as crushing overhead … Read more
GENEVA — People may have been getting high off cannabis earlier than previously thought — at least 2,800 years ago, a new study suggests. Archaeologists who led a dig at a monumental tomb in Siberia said they turned up evidence of the earliest known use of cannabis for psychoactive purposes. The findings point to cannabis … Read more
A crumbling California castle has cost American taxpayers millions of dollars, and it isn’t even open. Scotty’s Castle, a historic villa in Death Valley National Park has been closed to the public since October 2015, but the sprawling estate costs a whopping $350,000 each year to store and maintain its collection of over 12,400 artifacts, … Read more
As the granddaughter of Hungarian Holocaust survivors, British author Natalie Livingstone wasn’t just fascinated by World War II history, she was determined to excavate it. While negotiating the galleries inside London’s Imperial War Museum, she found herself beholding an arresting 6-foot oil painting simply titled “The Nuremberg Trial.” The defining artwork of the “trial of … Read more
An ancient Roman fort discovered in a remote part of Wales could help unravel a centuries-old legend about a Roman emperor — and may have accommodated as many as 1,000 soldiers, the archaeologist behind the discovery told Fox News Digital. The fort, located near Frenni Fawr in Pembrokeshire, was the subject of an October announcement by Wolfson … Read more
Hans Wilsdorf had a mission in mind when he founded Rolex in 1905: to craft the first wristwatch robust enough to maintain accurate timekeeping in rigorous physical conditions. Just five years later, he met his accuracy target when a Rolex wristwatch was awarded a certificate for chronometric precision by the Official Watch Rating Centre in … Read more
The Social Security Administration (SSA) has just announced the biggest change in its 91-year history. The agency said on Tuesday that it has officially “cleaned up” the comprehensive Social Security Number (SSN) database. According to the 91-year-old office, SSA records are referenced by federal government agencies and in states to validate identities — which helps … Read more
This is one im-peck-able performance. An injured bird in an Amsterdam zoo made history as the first in the world to receive two 3D-printed beak prosthetics. The southern ground hornbill at Artis Zoo got the custom-made artificial beaks — printed from plastic and attached with screws by surgeons — to replace his upper and lower … Read more
The mystery of Amelia Earhart’s long-lost aircraft may finally be solved — as researchers believe searchers spent nearly nine decades looking in the wrong place. A 17-member team from Purdue University and the Archaeological Legacy Institute (ALI) has launched a high-stakes expedition to Nikumaroro, a remote South Pacific atoll overrun by massive, three-foot land crabs. … Read more
Danger ahead. With Halloween just around the corner, California drivers should look out for these super spooky streets, including one long road that runs straight through the City of Angles. California is home to two of the most haunted roads in the world, at least according to believers in the paranormal (and two new rankings). … Read more
We live in a time of dizzying change. Our society is polarized by warring political and cultural beliefs. Violence stalks our streets and even our schools. It feels like we are at the edge of a precipice. But we have been there before. One hundred and seventy years ago, San Francisco, the epicenter of today’s … Read more
Picture this: Thousands are gathered in traditional garb to enjoy giant pretzels, sausages, roasted chicken — and of course, beer. Children are squealing, friends are singing along to the brass band — and a man is tapping some white powder onto the back of his hand. And snorting it!? Don’t worry, it’s not what you … Read more
This California outpost may be abandoned, but it’s got plenty of spirit. Tucked high in the eastern Sierra Nevada mountains sits a state park where a once-booming gold mining camp has been frozen in time — dusty, deserted and eerily untouched. Scores of weathered buildings still stand, including a saloon, church and stores still stocked … Read more
Live from New York, it’s Knicks MVP Jalen Brunson. Jalen Brunson once again made Knicks history as the first Big Apple basketball star from the franchise to host “Saturday Night Live.” Brunson, who just turned 30 earlier this month, traded in his basketball skills for sketch comedy as he dazzled in the season 52 premiere … Read more
A sweeping new study of the Roman Empire’s vast road network is challenging the age-old saying, “All roads lead to Rome.” The study, published Sept. 15 in the journal Nature Communications, analyzed roughly 190,000 miles of Roman roads spanning Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The team combined existing data to create a new … Read more
Fur-ever immortalized. Archaeologists have unearthed a mosaic a Roman household commissioned to honor its beloved dog and cat nearly 2,000 years ago. The artwork, believed to date to the late second or third century AD, was found inside the remains of a Roman villa beneath the ancient harbor city of Adramytteion on Turkey’s Aegean coast, … Read more
New York City has always been a city in motion — forever reinventing itself, tearing down the old to make room for whatever comes next. Over time, the once-ubiquitous elevated trains disappeared underground. Horses gave way to automobiles. Factories and warehouses became coveted lofts. Neighborhoods changed names, faces and fortunes. But the city that never … Read more
A treasure-hunting crew searching a legendary 17th-century underwater shipwreck off the Florida Keys has recovered a massive 55-pound copper ingot — the latest find along a trail that its captain believes could lead to more treasure. The ingot was found by divers with Mel Fisher’s Shipwreck Expeditions at the wreck site of the Nuestra Señora … Read more
After years of managing her eating disorder, one woman got her hands on a prescription for GLP-1 weight loss drugs from a telehealth service — and says it was “criminally easy” to do so. Kate, identified only by her first name, told Australia’s ABC News that she had a history of anorexia nervosa prior starting … Read more