Bible Bobbleheads Celebrate Heroes of the Faith

Cal Ripken, Nolan Ryan, Mike Piazza and … Noah? Move over baseball bobbleheads. There’s a new nodder in town: the Bible Bobblehead. Bobbleheads—also called bobbers or nodders—are roughly 7-inch figures with spring-loaded heads. They were especially popular about...

American Culture Fosters Various Food Traditions

Food. For some people, it’s just the body’s fuel. For others, it’s an event’s flair. People woof it down, lay it out, freeze it up and pile it on. They drain its fat, count its calories, watch its servings and fret over its partially...

Hollywood Is Ancient History

“Toga movies” were supposed to be a thing of the past. But filmmaker Ridley Scott proved that assumption wrong with 2000’s “Gladiator”—and studios have been plucking ancients for pictures ever since. Toga movies peaked in the early 1960s...