Germans started placing a candle on cakes – the fire was meant to represent the light of life itself – to celebrate their children’s birthdays.

And that’s why we put candles on our birthday cakes. However, the birthday cakes featured in ancient Greek birthdays were quite different from the ones we cut today.

If you lived through the ‘80s, chances are you went to a few middle-class birthday parties that looked a lot like these throwback photos.

An Illinois family struggled to extinguish the flames from 80 birthday candles on a cake for their grandmother's 80th birthday.

The one-act play by Noah Haidle stars Margot White, who appeared last year in the theater’s “A View From the Bridge” ...