Poveglia is the most famous of the city’s quarantine islands – getty Returning holidaymakers currently under quarantine for being careless enough to go to Portugal or French Polynesia (and live in Wales or Scotland rather than England, or is it the other way round?) should spare a thought for the […]
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The US Open becomes the first Grand Slam of the COVID-19 era when it starts Monday in a spectator-free bubble at Flushing Meadows following a troubled build-up that saw several top stars withdraw over coronavirus fears. Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams headline a tournament that will be unrecognisable from previous […]
The next Call of Duty video game returns to the setting of the original Black Ops, when Cold War intrigue dominated global relations. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, out Nov. 13, will be available for Sony PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PCs on Battle.net – and for PS5 and Xbox […]
In today’s Global Bulletin, Little Dot buys Dan Snow’s History Hit; ITV and France Televisions order a 9/11 doc; Open City Doc Fest reveals its game plan; and Discovery Denmark commissions Snowman. ACQUISITION All3Media-owned Little Dot Studios is acquiring broadcaster and historian Dan Snow’s platform History Hit. The acquisition is […]
ORLANDO, Fla. — America’s quest to once again fly humans to space and bring them back again was realized Sunday with a cannonball splash into the Gulf of Mexico. It’s taken six years to forge and test SpaceX and NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, and on Sunday at 2:48 p.m., Bob […]
Everyone knows that Lancaster is rich with history, but now you can get a little richer by knowing some Lancaster history. Adam Zurn, creator of Uncharted Lancaster — the local history-based adventure website — and Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County have teamed up to create an epic six-week-long Secret […]
Everyone knows that Lancaster is rich with history, but now you can get a little richer by knowing some Lancaster history. Adam Zurn, creator of Uncharted Lancaster — the local history-based adventure website — and Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County have teamed up to create an epic six-week-long Secret […]
Photo-Illustration: by Vulture; Photo by Mario Perez/ABC When the Lost finale aired on May 23, 2010, it was a very big deal. It was also, quite possibly, the last big deal of its kind. Born from an idea generated by then–ABC chairman Lloyd Braun, crafted into pilot form by co-creators […]
The exhibit opened for in-person visits in 2019, but the county decided to bring it back virtually because the archives can only be open for one person at a time due to COVID restrictions. A former Greene County Archives intern, Amy Czubak, did the research and put the exhibit together. […]
Credit cards are such a ubiquitous part of our daily financial life, it’s hard to imagine a time before they existed. Today, there are more than 1 billion credit cards in the U.S., and about 70% of Americans own at least one card. It wasn’t always this way. Find out […]
When news of the vaccine’s effectiveness broke late last year, we all rejoiced. Here, at last, was a clear route away from the Government’s fear-driven, wholly unprecedented, and socially and economically ruinous policy of lockdown. Our freedoms, stolen in a desperate bid to protect the old and vulnerable, would be […]
Screengrab via YouTube / PBS News Hour January 20, 2021 will go down as a critical turning point in our nation’s history, a day marking the end of a years-long period of darkness in America and the beginning of a triumphant return to the light. I’m talking, of course, about […]
According to Polygon, WotC worked with many freelance game designers to craft Candlekeep Mysteries’ unique stories. Each one-shot originates with a book found in Candlekeep, a massive and mysterious library, that incites the players’ adventure. One such escapade was written by producer, actress, and D&D player Jennifer Kretchmer. She’s known […]
SOMERVILLE, NJ – In an historic first, the governing body of Somerset County met today as the Somerset County Board of County Commissioners to select its new leadership and set priorities for the coming year. Last year Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law replacing the archaic Board of Freeholders title in […]
You get the bad news, and you move on. That’s what Michigan State men’s basketball did late Tuesday night when getting word about 11:15 that Virginia had to cancel the next day’s game. The Spartans flew back from Charlottesville to East Lansing on Wednesday morning, and were back practicing Wednesday […]
Washington, DC, isn’t at the top of everyone’s bucket list when it comes to travel. Its glitzy east coast neighbour, New York City, and the west coast sass of Los Angeles are far more appealing to many visitors to the United States. President John F Kennedy once rather drily described […]
Scott Parker is convinced he still has the full support of Shahid and Tony Khan but knows he is employed by a father-and-son partnership with a history of sacking Fulham managers. Parker’s men travel to Leicester on Monday having won just one of their first nine games after regaining the Premier […]
CLOSE Best gifts for mom 2019: Disney+ (Photo: LUCASFILM) Astronauts call the objects they carry with them to float around the space station in microgravity “zero-G indicators.” The rest of us call them toys. According to the blog Collect Space, the tradition goes all the way back to the first launch of a human […]
My late father Wilfred for decades shared his love of North Central Washington history with the readers of The Wenatchee World through his Talking It Over column. He was a voracious reader and had an uncanny ability to integrate knowledge and pass along insights. There is an emerging local history […]
After her marriage to Nick Lachey ended, Simpson decided to have a little fun. And she left a mark—on Mayer and the zeitgeist. In 2010, about three years after they split up, Mayer infamously told Playboy, “Yeah, that girl is like crack cocaine to me. Sexually it was crazy. That’s all I’ll say. […]
After her marriage to Nick Lachey ended, Simpson decided to have a little fun. And she left a mark—on Mayer and the zeitgeist. In 2010, about three years after they split up, Mayer infamously told Playboy, “Yeah, that girl is like crack cocaine to me. Sexually it was crazy. That’s all I’ll say. […]
There are two things I don’t want anybody seeing: my browsing history and my hidden folders. But a new app is starting to make me think I might also have to add my Reddit post history to the list. Enter the MBTI Reddit analysis tool, a web-based app that parses […]