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An ancient bird with sharp teeth inherited from dinosaurs sheds new details on how our avian friends evolved 

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The Vintage News May 8, 2018 Stefan Andrews Photo: MICHAEL HANSON AND BHART-ANJAN S. BHULLAR A very early bird species known as Ichthyornis dispar is helping scientists answer questions on how our avian friends evolved from dinosaurs. Fossilized specimens of four skulls, mostly fragmented, of this Cretaceous period seabird species have been used by both U.S. and U.K. scientists … Read more

The last meal: What happened when a crime boss sat down to lunch in a Brooklyn restaurant

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The Vintage News Jun 9, 2018 Nancy Bilyeau A hot day in New York City feels like no place else. The heaviness of the air weighs on you as you trudge down the blinding bright streets crisscrossing Gotham. It could be the concrete everywhere–sidewalks below, buildings above–and the smell of garbage that seems to grow in … Read more

Beethoven, so deaf he couldn’t hear the applause for his Ninth Symphony, started every day counting 60 beans for coffee

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The Vintage News May 23, 2018 E.L. Hamilton Even if you never listen to any classical music, you probably recognize the famously ominous opening bars of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony: da-da-da dummmmmmmm. (Depending on your movie tastes, you may recognize the Fifth on the soundtracks of The Breakfast Club, Austin Powers the Goldmember, or Howards End.) Beethoven was so deaf by the time … Read more

Director Milos Forman, who died at 86, was orphaned by World War II and became a passionate critic of communism after the Prague Spring of 1968

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The Vintage News Apr 16, 2018 Nancy Bilyeau (Photo by julio donoso/Sygma via Getty Images) Milos Forman, who died at the age of 86 on April 14, 2018, after a brief illness, directed some of the most memorable dramas of his time, from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nestto Amadeus. But perhaps the greatest drama he experienced was his … Read more

The secret meaning behind vintage tattoos

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The Vintage News Jun 8, 2018 Kristin Thomas If you know people who have tattoos, there’s a good chance at least one of them has a nautical-themed design somewhere on his or her body. Today, sailor tattoos, also referred to as “traditional tattoos” or “old school tattoos,” are seeing a resurgence. WW2 – sailors aboard USS … Read more

تربیت اور ماحول

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وزیر کی جان پہ بنی ہوئی تھی، فقیر بات ہی نئیں سُن رہا تھا ، اۤخر طویل مِنت سماجت کے بعد فقیر نے سر اٹھایا ، ہاں بول کیا کہنا ہے ؟ وزیر نے ہاتھ جوڑے اور بتانا شروع کیا ایک مہینہ پہلے ہمارے بادشاہ سلامت نے اچانک دربار میں ایک سوال اچھالا کہ کامیاب … Read more

Sunken Treasure: The Fight Over the Spanish Galleon San Jose

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The Vintage News May 31, 2018 George Winston In 1981, Sea Search Armada, a company funded by American investors and based in Belleview, Washington, found a three-hundred-year-old wreck of a Spanish Galleon in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Cartagena, Colombia.  It was the San José, sunk by the British in June of 1708 in … Read more

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