Traveling to Paris for a divorce became all the rage in the early 1920s. It was one...
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Puzzling questions are the focus of the exhibition Spectacular Mysteries: Renaissance Drawings Revealed. By Tristan BravinderSocial Media...
What place does the paper book have in our increasingly all-digital present? What place does the paper...
A century ago, a three-minute call from New York City to San Francisco on a landline cost...
Long before ‘sup’ and ‘hwu’ there was ‘Hw r u ts mng?’ From “lol” to “brb,” the...
The absence of a glorification of war in China was largely due to Confucian philosophy and literature....
There were over 200 gods and goddesses worshipped throughout ancient China, but if one were to count...
Roosevelt has become the rare figure popular with both left and right. A president’s career can extend...
Study and treatment of a Renaissance altarpiece reveals new details about the artist’s working method, as well...
Some general principles for approaching the topic of knowledge transfer and science transfer. Abstract We are all...
Benjamin Franklin was one of our nation’s founding fathers and one of its most ingenious inventors. During...
The history of biology, built upon the thoroughness and insight of Aristotle and Galen, passed onto the...
An overview of the Arab-Islamic reception and development of Hellenistic science. Abstract This article is an overview...
One of the most common mediums for political art has long been poster making. One of the...
The notes and staves we see today didn’t spring fully formed from one person’s mind. Imagine a...
West Africa is a place of great diversity – in language, in writing, in the hugely varied...
The symbols used in Norse mythology had to do not only with supernatural entities but also with...
Symbols in a largely illiterate society serve the vital purpose of relaying the most important values of...
The ups and downs of a big-time writer. In a life that spanned nearly six decades, Truman...
“Did the public have a voice in the development of a theocratic city?” As University of Tennessee...
The ancient Egyptians experienced the same wide array of disease that people do in the present day....
“Do you intend to reconstitute the Roman Empire?” It was a simple question, but Il Duce did...
Beatus was an early medieval monk who set down to illustrate a collection of writings he had...
Translators of the Bible have rarely understood the need or made the effort to convey the literary...
In short, the new fragment reveals a vision of humanity as a process of maturation that unfolds...
Vision is a window onto the world, its qualities determined by natural selection. Evolution has favoured the...
Humans stand out among all the mammals as being the only species to totter about on two...
Many of the protected open spaces that we have today have been inherited from one or more...
It has fallen on textile conservators to keep historic textiles preserved, and a surprising amount of science...
From ‘Six studies of a cat’ by Thomas Gainsborough, 1763–70 The poet Christopher Smart — also known...