For people around the world, the Times Square Ball Drop on New Year’s Eve is a symbolic gesture to acknowledge the passage of ...

From gathering in Times Square to singing “Auld Lang Syne” at a bar to simply kissing at midnight, modern New Year’s Eve ...

While Betty White found some early success producing and starring in the live-action sitcom, Life With Elizabeth, during the ...

From hairstyles to music, nearly everything about the ’80s was louder and bolder than today — and that included holidays.

Archaeologists excavating in İzmir, Turkey unearthed the head of a Hellenistic statue believed to depict the Greek goddess ...

As the first president of the United States, George Washington is one of the most recognizable figures in American history.

While searching for the Rapid City, a ship that sank near Toronto in 1917, divers came across a promising wreck on the bottom ...

Aside from Easter, Christmas is perhaps Christianity’s most sacred date. As a celebration of Christ’s birth, the holiday is ...

When a team of archaeologists discovered the remains of 57 people at an excavation site on the Greek island of Thasos, one ...

English explorer William Scoresby kicked off the 19th century's Arctic craze when he became the new record holder for ...

The Culper Spy Ring began on the orders of George Washington in 1778, when Washington made Major Benjamin Tallmadge his ...

Archaeologists have uncovered part of a 4,500-year-old Egyptian temple that was part of a complex built to honor the Sun god ...