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New study traces van Gogh's famed 'Starry Night' to an actual night sky from 1889
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists doubling as art detectives have traced Vincent van Gogh’s “ The Starry Night ” to a celestial scene that suggests a new date for one of the world’s most famous paintings.Their findings indicate that rather than being a product of van Gogh’s imagination, “The Starry Night” may have been inspired by what he saw as he gazed heavenward from his French asylum 137 years ago.
A South Korean team reported Thursday that after years of forensic astronomy and research into the Dutch artist, they have matched his masterpiece... Read More
Children's singer Raffi on his 50-year career, screen time and Ms. Rachel
Fifty years ago, Raffi was a struggling folk singer driving across Toronto, lugging boxes containing his debut children’s album, “Singable Songs for the Very Young,” hoping to convince stores to sell the record.The album was a word-of-mouth hit and, coupled with 1980’s “Baby Beluga,” transformed the Egypt-born singer of Armenian descent into one of North America's most famous children's musicians. Raffi's fun and heartwarming songs, including “Down By the Bay” and “Shake My Sillies Out,” remain a mainstay for parents and teachers of young children, even as the... Read More
Dusky shark that became a tourist draw while trapped in a South Korean canal finally swims free
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A large dusky shark trapped for more than a month in a canal finally swam out to sea Wednesday as officials in the South Korean port city of Busan succeeded in the third attempt to free the animal.Officials used a floating platform to herd the 3-meter-long (9.8-foot) female dusky shark, nicknamed Bukangi after the Korean name for Busan’s North Port, along the canal for hours. The shark lingered at the canal’s mouth but eventually swam to sea, Busan Mayor Chun Jae-soo said.
The shark was first spotted in mid-September and became a major... Read More
Whether 'stringing' or 'looping,' tobacco is the tie that binds many North Carolina farm families
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — When Sophie Sunday told her schoolmates she was taking off halfway through the school day, they couldn’t wait to find out why.“I’m going to loop tobacco at the fair,” the seventh grader told them. “And they’re, like, 'What?' They don’t have a clue.”
To be fair, most people don’t.
At 12, Sophie was the youngest contestant in the North Carolina State Fair’s annual tobacco stringing contest, which pays homage to a way of life that was already largely past when her parents were kids.
Traditionally, tobacco... Read More
A 'Treasury of Ice' goes on show, revealing relics as Swiss glaciers rapidly melt
LUCERNE, Switzerland (AP) — A bow once used to fire arrows in an ancient hunt. A crunched tube of mayonnaise and a discarded wine bottle. An alpinist's cracked helmet. A statuette dating back to Roman times.The Glacier Garden in Lucerne is showcasing artifacts like these in a new exhibit of relics that have emerged from Switzerland's vaunted glaciers over the years, with more expected to come as global warming accelerates the thaw.
The exhibit, whose title translates as “Treasury of Ice” from German, comes as Swiss glaciologists recently reported that Switzerland... Read More
Top Stories in Offbeat News
- New study traces van Gogh's famed 'Starry Night' to an actual night sky from 1889
- Children's singer Raffi on his 50-year career, screen time and Ms. Rachel
- Dusky shark that became a tourist draw while trapped in a South Korean canal finally swims free
- Whether 'stringing' or 'looping,' tobacco is the tie that binds many North Carolina farm families
- A 'Treasury of Ice' goes on show, revealing relics as Swiss glaciers rapidly melt
- 'The Simpsons' resurrects Apu after nearly a decade of silence
- A historical society with pilot's help bought Neil Armstrong's boyhood home and will offer tours
- Bringing more beavers to watersheds is a powerful drought-fighting tool, experts say
- Barcelona 'grandmas' dish out cooking wisdom. And find nourishment themselves
- A rare family of barn owls moved into Manhattan's Upper West Side. New Yorkers are captivated
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