Sonny's Castle Dangerous

A husband-and-wife metal detectorist team recently found nearly 60 Roman coins buried in a farmer’s field in Norfolk. Six of them are gold a...

I'm an occasional driver for Uber and Lyft. On a whim, I turned on the app yesterday while I was driving around doing errands. I had one...

This hoard of about 500 gold and sliver coins was d iscovered by waterworks employees during excavation work in Holland: 15TH CENTURY POT ...

This isn't in the same league as the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred's Necronomicon , or the accursed  The King In Yellow. But at least it ...

Before senility robs me of these memories, I have assembled this list of lesser-known childrens' TV shows and short serials in the New ...

I want to be clear on this: I don't believe these things. But they are strange. Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger and other public figures...

Now in display at Leeds City Museum, this hoard of copper coins lay buried in a Yorkshire field for over 1,600 years. Experts believe it may...

By Bob Tralins Belmont Books. 1967. Paper. “Ring-a-ding” was an expression popularized by Frank Sinatra and his Rat Pack pals. How did...

by Thomas Blamer and Richard Shulman Wyndham Books, 1982; 206 pages ISBN 0-671-43224-9 When Dow 3,000 was published in 1982, it was...

Today is my 64th birthday. This has opened my eyes to many things.  I've come to the realization that 64 is a special number. A number g...

I noticed today that two female professors at the University of Rochester are among those named  “Person of Year: Silence Breakers” by Time ...

It's been a big week for those interested in buried treasure. The latest issue of Coin World magazine reports two significant finds. I...

A friend sent me this London newspaper poster recently.  It reminds me of the hawker who sold newspapers in the Baker Street Underground sta...

Thanksgiving is a time for happiness, and family, and togetherness. On this day we set aside our differences and share the blessings of good...

A house in our neighborhood is decked out with the most disturbing Halloween decorations I've ever seen. The theme: an insane asylum, po...

The next X-Men movie spinoff, The New Mutants , features Maisie Williams as Wolfsbane. This sets up an earth-shattering possibility. It has...

Metal detectorists recently found 282 Celtic coins in a farmer's field in Lincolnshire.  This hoard is particularly interesting because...

I recently decided to read a page of the Bible each day. Through this effort, I reasoned, it will take only 2,179 days to read the entire bo...

Among the pleasures of retirement is the freedom to research anything that arouses my curiosity. That is what led me to the Urim and the Thu...

I read recently of the theory of the multiverse, which states that our reality may be just one of a huge number of parallel universes. Artic...