To me it was a heavy piece of lead.” The Norregaard family found a 19th century cannonball in their chimney. Rula’s kids showed it off to their friends, it sat in their living room and her ...

An enormous painting of 42 spoiled cats commissioned by their exuberant owner fetched nearly $1 million at auction. “My Wife’s Lovers” — an oversized 19th century painting by Austrian ...

The artists of 19th-century Japan loved painting their cats almost as much as today’s cat owners love Instagramming theirs. A new exhibit celebrates this pre-Internet feline art. Buddhism ...

Alice Gibbs is a Newsweek Senior Internet Trends & Culture Reporter based in the U.K. For the last two years she has specialized in viral trends and internet news, with a particular focus on ...

Santa Claus as we know him today has only existed since the 19th century, and he first slid down the chimney in a 1812 book by Washington Irving. But the fireplace served as a venue for magical ...