Thanksgiving, celebrated annually in the United States, is a time-honored tradition marked by a feast that brings together family and…
When, in 1816, John Keats began reading an Elizabethan translation of Homer, he became so enthralled that he stayed up…
A sustained campaign of attacks blazed across the Welsh counties of Carmarthenshire, Cardiganshire, and Pembrokeshire from 1839. Tenant-farmers and labourers,…
Appearing in 1482, the Libro de la ventura – or Book of Fortune – became a staple of Renaissance parties.…
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A pair of scientists who study hominin fossils and human evolution in China and East Asia claim to have discovered…
When the mad Roman Emperor Caligula was assassinated in 41 AD, his uncle Claudius ran to one of the palace's…
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A circle of corroded bronze, measuring 12 inches (30cm) across, adorned with golden shapes, was unwittingly discovered in 1999 in…
Ancient Romans reportedly ingested the brains of a bream called the dreamfish to get high, and modern scholarly studies have…