Culture Re-View: On this day – The Fab Four (almost) bow out of performing live
On this day in 1966, the Beatles performed in public for the very last time – despite still being at the top of their game. 1966 was a difficult year … Read More
Tag: History
Wreckage of ancient Roman ship found off Italian coast
The wreckage of a Roman ship that sunk more than 2,000 years ago was discovered off the Italian coast near Rome. The cargo ship was found on a seabed off … Read More
Sen. Tim Scott blasts Ron DeSantis over Florida’s slavery curriculum
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is facing escalating heat from black Republicans upset over the state’s new academic curriculum that features lessons on how “enslaved people benefited from slavery.” “What slavery … Read More
‘Jeopardy!’ contestant flubs final clue with Napoleon guess
She came up short. A librarian from suburban Baltimore is getting skewered for failing to correctly identify William H. Seward as the author of an 1867 letter in Monday’s final … Read More
‘Urban’ cities were ruled by Bible’s King David: archeologist
An archeologist claims the Bible’s King David could’ve ruled over a large kingdom, complete with roads connecting between cities, made up of fortified cities around Jerusalem. Yosef Garfinkel, a professor at … Read More
Massachusetts library book returned after 119 years
Massachusetts librarians were stunned when a 19th-century book was returned more than 119 years after it was checked out. The book, James Clerk Maxwell’s “An Elementary Treatise on Electricity,” had … Read More
President John Adams’ intimate letter to’ teen bride sold for $40K
An intimate testament to love and to home written and signed by Founding Father John Adams was sold for $40,000 by auction house Raab Collection on Wednesday. The heartfelt letter from the … Read More
Ancient mummy — supposedly part of ritual sacrifice — found buried beneath 15,000 pounds of trash at Peruvian dump
A 3,000-year-old mummy — purportedly buried in a ritual sacrifice — was discovered by archeologists who dug through eight tons of trash at a garbage dump in Peru. Traces of … Read More
Ancient Turkish city discovered after man knocked down basement wall
A Turkish homeowner chasing his chickens through a hole in his basement during renovations came across an abandoned underground Turkish city that once housed 20,000 people. In an effort to … Read More
The mysterious postcard that revealed family ties from the Holocaust
French author Anne Berest didn’t know much about the Jewish side of her family apart from the fact that her grandmother had lost her parents and siblings to the Holocaust. … Read More
