2+ hour, 46+ min ago   (1462+ words) On September 13th, National Peanut Day honors the mighty and tasty peanut. 1500 BC – As early as 1500 B.C., the Incans of Peru used peanuts as sacrificial offerings and entombed them with their mummies to aid in the spirit life. 1800s – The phrase “peanut…...

16+ hour, 57+ min ago   (359+ words) A traditional stitch-plank va'a folau has returned to Samoa after more than a century, giving a new generation an opportunity to learn a craft once central to the islands’ relationship with the sea. The "soatau folau" was blessed and named…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (593+ words) Maurice Hallman looks at a steel girder from the World Trade Center on display at the South Carolina State Museum on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026. COLUMBIA — Maurice Hallman remembers Sept. 11, 2001, vividly. He was in a sixth grade class at White Knoll Middle…...

10+ hour, 57+ min ago   (268+ words) President Donald Trump has called upon the Smithsonian’s American History Museum to launch a celebration of George Washington by constructing a new exhibit detailing his life and legacy ahead of the 300th anniversary of his birth. Trump has demanded the process…...

10+ hour, 56+ min ago   (919+ words) Most people would consider the building of a grand museum glorifying a notorious dictator estimated to be personally responsible for the deaths of around 10 million people as an act of grotesque folly and gross insensitivity. That such a museum – which…...

9+ hour, 40+ min ago   (681+ words) Across the flooded fields and scrubby foothills of South Asia lives a frog that most people, including many biologists, would struggle to tell apart from its close relatives. The burrowing frog Sphaerotheca maskeyi, a medium-sized member of the family Dicroglossidae,…...

15+ hour, 12+ min ago   (902+ words) A new study shows parents of children who have recently started university receive 528 text messages a year from their grown-up children. Progeny prod their mum and dad about everything from money worries (71%), cooking questions (63%), work concerns (60%) and DIY disasters (38%) But…...

10+ hour, 26+ min ago   (12+ words) On this day in 1940, 17,000-year-old artwork was discovered in France...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (750+ words) Visalia Heritage has passed the halfway point in its fundraising drive that will allow it to close escrow on the former Southern Pacific Depot building and transform it into a permanent Visalia museum and cultural center. “We've raised over a…...

17+ hour, 28+ min ago   (539+ words) Published 5:30 am Saturday, September 12, 2026 Last week, Ladysmith Harbour was the location for a sneak preview of what is going to be a highlight of the Victoria Classic Boat Festival over the 2026 Labour Day weekend. The Maritime Museum of BC is…...