A rare gold coin minted for Spain's King Philip III in 1609 has become Europe's most valuable coin, selling for 2,817,500 ...

The country's first "diner" opened in Providence in 1872, when Walter Scott began serving sandwiches, coffee and pies to ...

Migrating Canada geese, in their iconic v-formations, can fly an astonishing 1,500 miles in just 24 hours. They can also waddle indefinitely around your local office park. In recent years, more people ...

These are the titles to reach for when winter’s bite makes staying in with a good book the only logical choice.

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sara Bareilles, Joshua Henry, Jeanine Tesori, Jason Robert Brown and New York Times writers and editors ...

Insights Some of the most important inventions ever were created by accident.  Viagra is a surprising addition to this list ...

Take foreign policy. Buckley's earliest commitments, inherited from his father, were isolationist: Charles Lindbergh was a ...

Beer is one of the oldest prepared drinks in human history, with origins dating back at least 7,000 years to […] ...

The aluminum tray with its neat compartments holding turkey, mashed potatoes, and peas might look modest today, yet it ...

The nonfiction winner considers Gaza and the West; other winners include Rabih Alameddine, Daniel Nayeri, Patricia Smith ...

Tucked away in Norfolk’s shopping landscape sits Thrift Store USA, a secondhand paradise so legendary that Virginians will happily burn a tank of gas just to hunt through its treasure-filled aisles.

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