
A young American sailor’s journal detailing his harrowing experiences during the Revolutionary War has been donated to the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia.
'THE FIRST OVAL OFFICE': MUSEUM WILL SHOWCASE WASHINGTON’S REVOLUTIONARY WAR TENT. In the journal, Hawkins describes escaping from the prison ship by stealing an axe from the ship's cook and breaking his way through a barred porthole during a thunder storm.
She shows us how to make comforting chicken pot pie, fluffy buttermilk biscuits, cheesy scalloped potatoes and easy strawberry shortcakes.
Lifestyle expert Joanna Gaines is stopping by the TODAY kitchen to share a few of her family-friendly recipes from her cookbook "Magnolia Table: A Collection of Recipes for Gathering." She shows us how to make comforting chicken pot pie, fluffy buttermilk biscuits, cheesy scalloped potatoes and easy strawberry shortcakes.
It’s hard to pick up a magazine, check your Instagram feed or even talk to your friend without being given some diet tip, welcomed or not.
There are a few tips that I’ve heard over and over that make me want to scream, “nooooo!”. Read on, and you may be happy to learn you can ditch these tips (along with that cereal that tastes like cardboard):. It is true that certain foods (even healthy ones) like bananas and carrots are slightly higher in carbohydrates and sugar (respectively) compared to other fruits and vegetables.
Gemini, the bitcoin exchange founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, has teamed up with Nasdaq Inc. to beef up its defenses against market manipulation—the latest sign that the cryptocurrency industry is trying to get past its Wild West days.
Under the agreement, Gemini will use Nasdaq’s surveillance software, called SMARTS, to monitor its markets for potentially abusive trading practices. Securities and Exchange Commission officials have warned of potential fraud and manipulation on the largely unregulated trading venues.
Blake Shelton sent out a cryptic tweet about "karma" just as reports claimed Wednesday morning that his ex-wife Miranda Lambert is dating a married man. "Been taking the high road for a long time..
Additionally, it's been reported that Lambert and Shelton began seeing each other while Shelton was still married to his first wife Kaynette Williams in 2006 -- Shelton and Lambert have both denied this.
A lawyer representing two former NFL cheerleaders who have filed discrimination claims against the league reportedly proposed to settle the disputes for $1 in exchange for a meeting with Commissioner Roger Goodell.
"Our office will work with our clubs in sharing best practices and employment-related processes that will support club cheerleading squads within an appropriate and supportive workplace."
Therefore, can this be counted as my own, semi-empowered choice, or am I kidding myself and submitting to the patriarchy?
I dress in ways that I choose to because I am influenced by a society and fashion industry that tells me what is attractive and in many ways (I still believe) is aimed at the male gaze. Therefore, can this be counted as my own, semi-empowered choice, or am I kidding myself and submitting to the patriarchy?
The painstaking task took 700 hours over 11 months and 56,000 Lego bricks to complete, but when he was finished, Brynjar had built the world's largest Titanic replica made out of Legos.
His model has toured the world, docking in Norway, Sweden and Germany, before ultimately landing in the U.S. Now Brynjar's replica will be anchored at the Titanic Museum attraction in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, until 2020.
In our series, Pay Attention, we're looking at the role technology plays in our lives in a different way: its impact on our ability to focus and how we can recapture our attention from the devices that distract us.
I visited Lift in Brooklyn to repeat the experience – this time without the sensors on my heart and head and the cameras in the room.
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The 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 is the last of the seventh generation of the car—known as C7—before the mid-engine C8 platform arrives as soon as next year. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers visit
They are sung at the Piccadilly by former Pop Idol winner Will Young, who was briefly a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing in 2016.
One of four performing sisters whose aunt is Bonnie Langford - plays Fran, the reluctant partner of ballroom maverick Scott. The show, like the film, follows Scott's battle against an inflexible establishment that insists dancers stick to official dance steps.
The Fox assets might make $3.8 billion in operating profit in 2018, taking Bernstein EBITDA divisional estimates and assuming operating profit is split among the Fox businesses in the same proportions.
That’s 16 percent higher than an offer already made by Fox, which is trying to buy the 61 percent of Sky it doesn’t already own in order to then sell the whole thing to Walt Disney. Second, Roberts promised during an earnings call not to use the company’s sagging shares as an acquisition currency – but pointed to the strength of Comcast’s balance sheet, in a strong signal that he is open to further deals funded by cash.
In compact San Francisco, where a freewheeling culture often collides with anti-tech sentiment, scooters are joining an array of unconventional transportation from self-driving cars to electric unicycles.
Ben Wolfson glanced up from his phone while walking in downtown San Francisco last week to see a woman whizzing toward him on what looked like a child’s kick scooter.
Who has prosecuted high-profile cases taking on terrorists, mobsters, drug dealers and political corruption — is representing former FBI Director James Comey.
Appointed by George W. Bush to be U.S. Attorney in Chicago in 2001, Fitzgerald became the longest-serving U.S. Attorney in the history of that districts. In 2003, then Deputy Attorney General Comey tapped Fitzgerald to investigate the leak of CIA agent Valerie Plame’s identity.
A third federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restart a program that shields young undocumented immigrants known as “Dreamers” from deportation and, in a first, to accept new applicants to the program. Writing that the decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) program was “virtually unexplained”, the US district judge John Bates said on Tuesday he would stay the order for 90 days to allow the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) an opportunity to “better explain” its decision.