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AMERICANALMANAC (Charles McAdams) - Starz's 'Blood of My Blood' returns Friday with Jacobite rebellion tearing Ellen and Brian apart
The *Outlander* prequel *Blood of My Blood* launches its second season on Starz this Friday, picking up exactly where Season 1 left off, with Jamie Fraser's parents separated by the Jacobite Uprisings in 18th-century Scotland. Harriet Slater and Jamie Roy, who play Ellen MacKenzie and Brian Fraser, told UPI in a Zoom interview that Season […] The post Starz's 'Blood of My Blood' returns Friday with Jacobite rebellion tearing Ellen and Brian apart appeared first on American Almanac .
The *Outlander* prequel *Blood of My Blood* launches its second season on Starz this Friday, picking up exactly where Season 1 left off, with Jamie Fraser's parents separated by the Jacobite Uprisings in 18th-century Scotland. Harriet Slater and Jamie Roy, who play Ellen MacKenzie and Brian Fraser, told UPI in a Zoom interview that Season 2 wastes no time plunging the couple back into conflict. The pair had barely escaped together at the end of the first season before the fiery crosses, the traditional Scottish call to arms, forced them apart again. The show, based on Diana Gabaldon's best-selling novels, follows the parents of Jamie Fraser, the character Sam Heughan made famous across eight seasons of the flagship *Outlander* series.…Open
AMERICANALMANAC (Jack Newsome) - Conagra smashes Guinness record with a 429-foot Slim Jim on its Omaha campus
Conagra Brands broke the Guinness World Record for the longest meat snack by unspooling a Slim Jim that stretched more than 429 feet across a parking lot in Omaha, Nebraska, beating the old mark by 116 feet. The supersized snack measured 429 feet and 5.4 inches, according to UPI. A Guinness World Records adjudicator was […] The post Conagra smashes Guinness record with a 429-foot Slim Jim on its Omaha campus appeared first on American Almanac .
Conagra Brands broke the Guinness World Record for the longest meat snack by unspooling a Slim Jim that stretched more than 429 feet across a parking lot in Omaha, Nebraska, beating the old mark by 116 feet. The supersized snack measured 429 feet and 5.4 inches, according to UPI . A Guinness World Records adjudicator was on site at Conagra's Omaha campus on September 9 and certified the result on the spot. The snack started its public life coiled around a massive, rolling wire rack. Workers then unspooled it to its full length across a line of assembled tables in the parking lot, a spectacle that ran nearly one and a half football fields long. Same recipe, 429 more feet Conagra's internal "Blaze Crew" team built the record-breaker. The…Open
AMERICANALMANAC (Jonah Adams) - Amy Yasbeck says John Ritter's misdiagnosis turned a survivable crisis into a death sentence
John Ritter's widow says the beloved sitcom star died in September 2003 because emergency doctors treated him for a heart attack he never had, and the foundation she built in his name is now pushing families to demand the one scan that could save their lives. Amy Yasbeck and her son Tyler Ritter sat down […] The post Amy Yasbeck says John Ritter's misdiagnosis turned a survivable crisis into a death sentence appeared first on American Almanac .
John Ritter's widow says the beloved sitcom star died in September 2003 because emergency doctors treated him for a heart attack he never had, and the foundation she built in his name is now pushing families to demand the one scan that could save their lives. Amy Yasbeck and her son Tyler Ritter sat down with Fox News Digital ahead of what would have been Ritter's 78th birthday on Sept. 17 to lay out, in plain terms, what went wrong the night the "Three's Company" star collapsed. Ritter walked into a hospital with chest pain. He fit the profile, right age, right weight, and the medical team made a snap judgment. They loaded him with blood thinners and never ran imaging. The diagnosis was wrong. Ritter was not having a heart attack. He…Open
AMERICANALMANAC (Jack Newsome) - Wisconsin woman reclaims Guinness record with 754 pairs of salt and pepper packets
A 67-year-old Brookfield, Wisconsin, woman has recaptured the Guinness World Record for the largest collection of matching salt and pepper packets, beating the rival who dethroned her by 160 pairs. Linda Schulz first earned the title in 2024 with 494 matching pairs of salt and pepper packets, a collection that Guinness World Records recognized as […] The post Wisconsin woman reclaims Guinness record with 754 pairs of salt and pepper packets appeared first on American Almanac .
A 67-year-old Brookfield, Wisconsin, woman has recaptured the Guinness World Record for the largest collection of matching salt and pepper packets, beating the rival who dethroned her by 160 pairs. Linda Schulz first earned the title in 2024 with 494 matching pairs of salt and pepper packets, a collection that Guinness World Records recognized as the world's largest. But her reign was short-lived. The following year, a collector named Salacnib "Sonny" Molina overtook her with 594 pairs, UPI reported . Schulz did not stay on the sidelines. She came back with 754 pairs, a total that crushed Molina's mark by a wide margin and put the record firmly back in Wisconsin. From 494 to 754: Schulz added 260 pairs to reclaim the crown The numbers…Open
AMERICANALMANAC (Jack Newsome) - Two chimpanzees break out of Taipei Zoo enclosure after staff leave doors improperly secured
A pair of male chimpanzees escaped their enclosure at Taipei Zoo on Thursday after keepers failed to properly secure an inner set of doors, forcing staff to tranquilize both animals while visitors were rushed out of the area. The older of the two, a 44-year-old chimp named Hsiao Chiang, didn't wander far. He stayed near […] The post Two chimpanzees break out of Taipei Zoo enclosure after staff leave doors improperly secured appeared first on American Almanac .
A pair of male chimpanzees escaped their enclosure at Taipei Zoo on Thursday after keepers failed to properly secure an inner set of doors, forcing staff to tranquilize both animals while visitors were rushed out of the area. The older of the two, a 44-year-old chimp named Hsiao Chiang, didn't wander far. He stayed near the chimpanzee enclosure and was found visiting with female chimps when veterinary staff hit him with a tranquilizer dart at 5:28 p.m., roughly half an hour after the breakout began. His younger companion caused more trouble. Wa Chih, an 11-year-old male, took himself on a tour of the zoo grounds, stopping by the giraffe enclosure before scaling a tree near the lion exhibit. When a veterinary team fired the first…Open
AMERICANALMANAC (Jack Newsome) - Norfolk woman wins $100,000 lottery prize after spotting the same numbers on license plates
A Virginia woman turned a recurring number sequence she kept noticing on license plates into a $100,000 Virginia Lottery payday, buying two identical Pick 5 tickets online and hitting on both. The Norfolk resident told Virginia Lottery officials she had been seeing the digits 0-8-1-1-6 everywhere, on the plates of passing cars and in various […] The post Norfolk woman wins $100,000 lottery prize after spotting the same numbers on license plates appeared first on American Almanac .
A Virginia woman turned a recurring number sequence she kept noticing on license plates into a $100,000 Virginia Lottery payday, buying two identical Pick 5 tickets online and hitting on both. The Norfolk resident told Virginia Lottery officials she had been seeing the digits 0-8-1-1-6 everywhere, on the plates of passing cars and in various other everyday places. She took it as a sign. She called the pattern "a message from the universe" and decided to put it to the test. She bought two Pick 5 tickets online for the August 12 night drawing, entering the same five-number sequence on each one. Both tickets matched. Each paid $50,000, UPI reported , giving her a combined prize of $100,000. Two tickets, one sequence, $100,000 The woman,…Open
AMERICANALMANAC (Alex Tanzer) - Margot Robbie films Ocean's Eleven prequel in Saint-Tropez alongside Bradley Cooper
The 36-year-old actress was photographed in a 1960s-style blue bikini on the French Riviera as production rolls on a prequel to the 2001 heist classic, a project she is also producing with her husband. Photos captured by The Mega Agency show Robbie standing knee-deep in the ocean, walking along the shore, reading a script between […] The post Margot Robbie films Ocean's Eleven prequel in Saint-Tropez alongside Bradley Cooper appeared first on American Almanac .
The 36-year-old actress was photographed in a 1960s-style blue bikini on the French Riviera as production rolls on a prequel to the 2001 heist classic, a project she is also producing with her husband. Photos captured by The Mega Agency show Robbie standing knee-deep in the ocean, walking along the shore, reading a script between takes, and filming scenes in the sand with Cooper, who is writing and directing the film. The setting fits the story: the prequel centers on Danny Ocean's parents pulling off a heist at the 1962 Monaco Grand Prix, well before the character made his name in Las Vegas. Robbie laid out the premise at CinemaCon in July, as Fox News Digital reported : "Before Danny Ocean ever stepped foot in Vegas, two masterminds…Open
AMERICANALMANAC (Charles McAdams) - Ella Langley's 'Dandelion' claims No. 1 on the Billboard 200
Country star Ella Langley has landed atop the Billboard 200 album chart with her sophomore record Dandelion, capping a run that already includes a historic 14-week reign on the Hot 100 singles chart. The Billboard 200 chart dated Saturday placed Langley's Dandelion at No. 1 in the United States, UPI reported. Olivia Rodrigo's You Seem […] The post Ella Langley's 'Dandelion' claims No. 1 on the Billboard 200 appeared first on American Almanac .
Country star Ella Langley has landed atop the Billboard 200 album chart with her sophomore record Dandelion, capping a run that already includes a historic 14-week reign on the Hot 100 singles chart. The Billboard 200 chart dated Saturday placed Langley's Dandelion at No. 1 in the United States, UPI reported . Olivia Rodrigo's You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love came in at No. 2, followed by Morgan Wallen's I'm the Problem at No. 3. Langley's chart-topping week is no fluke. It sits on top of a year that has turned the young country singer into one of the most dominant forces in American music, across genres, not just Nashville. A record-tying singles run fueled the album's rise Before Dandelion reached the top of the album chart,…Open
AMERICANALMANAC (Alan Benson) - House Republicans say ActBlue accepted illegal foreign donations and then tried to hide the evidence
A congressional investigation found that the Democratic Party's biggest fundraising platform weakened its own fraud safeguards, accepted contributions from donors flagged as foreign, and may have misled Congress about all of it, and now the platform's legal team has walked out the door. House Republicans released a report detailing how ActBlue, the online donation engine […] The post House Republicans say ActBlue accepted illegal foreign donations and then tried to hide the evidence appeared first on American Almanac .
A congressional investigation found that the Democratic Party's biggest fundraising platform weakened its own fraud safeguards, accepted contributions from donors flagged as foreign, and may have misled Congress about all of it, and now the platform's legal team has walked out the door. House Republicans released a report detailing how ActBlue, the online donation engine that has processed billions of dollars for Democratic candidates and causes, allegedly allowed illegal foreign money to flow into American campaigns through a system built to let suspicious contributions slide. The New York Post reported that internal documents show ActBlue supervisors told fraud analysts to "give the donor the benefit of the doubt", even when donations…Open