In Neolithic western Europe, large stones, or megaliths (from the Greek megas, "great," and lithos, "stone"), were used for construction of tombs, temples, rings, alignments, and stelae. The largest number of some fifty...

Sumner Redstone "played down" reports over the last 24 hours that he had becomed estranged from his daughter and once-presumptive heir, Shari Redstone. But the effect of his words was to confirms suspicions, as Richard Siklos and Geraldine Fabrikant write in The New York Times...

In 2004, when the vulture capitalists who divested the Pressman family of their beloved, bankrupted Barneys New York finally decided to sell the department store off, Gene Pressman, the grandson of founder Barney Pressman, made a last-ditch effort to attach himself to investors bidding for...

There are islands in the Hebrides and Orkneys where only one man lives, an island unto himself and maybe a thousand sheep. And there are others with no one in residence at all, but wild...

After a 17-year stay, journalist Michael Gross has fled Greenwich Village, selling his parlor-floor apartment at 69 Washington Place. According to city records, hip-hop D.J. Mark Ronson paid $1.8 million for the six-room place. Mr. Gross wrote last October’s 740 Park, a lip-smacking 562-page biography...