Is there a difference between the Hitler salute and the Roman salute? Danny Bird explores the story of an instantly ...

National Geographic highlights Pollença, Valldemossa, Deià and Fornalutx among Spain’s most beautiful places in 2025. Many ...

Roman Catholic German Emperor Maximilian I is captured in Belgium. 1597: A group of early Japanese Christians, known as ...

Sancho I, ruler of the kingdom of Léon in the north of modern-day Spain, was overthrown by rebel ... especially the Greco-Roman culture preserved in Egypt and the Near East.

Discuss Houston with an outsider and food, sports teams, the oil industry, and traffic are likely to enter the conversation. Parks and green space may laud an honorary mention. However, many overlook ...

Ali Smith scrambles plotlines, upends characters, and flouts chronology—while telling propulsively readable stories.

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...

The U.S. military’s recruiting troubles came just as it was attempting a fundamental shift in its mission. For decades, the ...

The Kapampangan language has found new life in the liturgy, thanks to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Fernando (RCASF), which recently completed its vernacular translation of the Roman Missal’s ...

A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to ...

A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars ...