Every week since 1976, Metropolitan Diary has published stories by, and for, New Yorkers of all ages and eras (no matter where they live now): anecdotes and memories, quirky encounters and overheard ...

How a Dutch couple sheltered Anne Frank’s family and preserved her account of life under Nazi occupation. Miep Gies (right) and her husband Jan return to the house where the Frank family hid. When ...

Current local time in Guadalcanal (Pacific/Guadalcanal timezone). Get information about the Pacific/Guadalcanal time zone. Local time and date, DST adjusted (where ever daylight saving time is ...

After the fierce fighting in the First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, where the Japanese lost their first battleship, Hiei, both sides took heavy casualties but neither could claim full control. No side ...

Starting new stationery is always satisfying, but that first page of a diary is hard to beat. And now’s not too late to sort your planner for 2026. When it comes to choosing the design to go for, I’d ...

Editor's Note: Last week, we published a story detailing how researchers in Guadalcanal had found and photographed the first male Moustached Kingfisher ever recorded, then euthanized the individual ...

YouTube is the biggest video streaming service in the world, with the platform boasting more than 2.5 billion monthly active users. However, users are miffed because of multiple non-skippable ads on ...

YouTube was launched in 2005. It was founded by three PayPal employees: Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who ran the company from an office above a small restaurant in San Mateo. The first ...

Frank Perry’s “Diary of a Mad Housewife” is about a long-suffering young woman who has somehow gotten herself married to the most supercilious dope in Manhattan. He’s egotistical, cruel, insecure, ...