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Five years after the release of the classic horror-thriller film The Birds, famous producer Alfred Hitchcock told viewers on the Dick Cavett show that the film trained more than 3,200 birds. With such a large flock of feathered creatures, you would imagine animal...

For some of us, this just ain’t the “most wonderful time of the year.” In fact, as the extended holiday season winds down, we’re left to wonder if the inexplicable dread of these holiday blues will end with the silly revelry engulfing the dropping of a ball that rings...

You made it! You persevered through the darkest day of the year!   December 21st, the winter solstice, is notoriously known as the day with the shortest window of daylight. Every day leading to the solstice gets a bit shorter until the culmination of darkness on the...

  Let the countdown begin! Christmas is ten days away! 10…9…8…7… Counting down to all sorts of days and events seems to be the norm. It's a way to build anticipation, quantify, and manage our excitement as big events come ever closer. But, according to historian...

This time of year can serve as a roundup of all we experienced in the 11 months preceding it. As we prepare for the holiday festivities, we can grow pensive about what we’ve been through. For most of us, there will be happy memories co-mingled with some struggles and...

Can you guess which food item Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin brought to the moon and back? This holiday treat is now prominently displayed at the Air and Space Museum. You may ponder the answer as we kick off National Fruitcake Month. Fruitcake may have been out of...