Many fans have favorite episodes of All in the Family, but for show creator Norman Lear, “Two’s a Crowd” is one of the top. In it, blue-collar bigot Archie Bunker and his progressive son-in-law, Mike, spend the night trapped together in his bar’s storage room. To pass the time, they drink, argue and eventually connect as Archie opens up about his terrible childhood to the man he called “Meathead.”
“You realized how much they cared for one another despite their disagreements,” Norman, 98, exclusively shares in the latest issue of Closer Weekly, on newsstands now. Read More...
Potatoes are not native to Ireland but likely originated in the Andes Mountains of Peru, South America. In the early 1500s, Spanish conquerors found the Incas growing the vegetable, which the Spanish called patata. They were taken back to Europe and eventually reached England where the name changed to potato. Are potatoes originally from Ireland? However, the potato was not a native of Ireland. It had been found by Spanish conquistadors in south America in the 1500s was shipped to Europe, and reached Ireland around 1590. Read More...
Skrunda-1 sounds like a planet from Star Wars, but it's actually an abandoned Soviet ghost town. Honestly, just by itself, that's a horrifying sentence. Also, it's deep in the middle of the forest. So now we've got an abandoned Soviet city surrounded by the woods. Are there werewolves too? It originally was a secret city, designed for Soviet scientists. It housed a radar station designed to keep Russia safe during the Cold War, monitoring for nuclear weapons coming in. Read More...