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Who hasn't stood at the edge of a lake and hunted around for the perfect stone to skip over the water? Once one person does it, everyone wants to try. [...]

From the ancient Romans' mid-February bacchanal called Lupercalia to the three saints named Valentine once recognized by the Catholic church, on up through billets-doux in the Victorian Age and ever [...]

If there's one American monument that's difficult to love, it's Horatio Greenough's George Washington (1841). Now located at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, the twelve-foot tall marble statue [...]

Caption: VIEW OF THE WEIR AND PULTENEY BRIDGE IN BATH, SOMERSET Caption: ABOVE: VIEW ALONG THE RIVER AVON TOWARDS FAMOUS PULTENEY BRIDGE, BATH RIGHT: VIEW OF TRADITIONAL CHURCH ABBEY, IN [...]

What now? Germanicus Julius Caesar, governor of Tres Galliae and Germania, might have wondered such as he opened the dispatch. It was mid-September in AD 14. A month earlier he'd [...]

A comic look at what might have pushed Julius Caesar into the famous decision to cross the Rubicon River and march on the powers in ancient Rome ... Characters RUFILLA, [...]

The Roman senator and historian Gaius Cornelius Tacitus described his country's desire to rule the known world: 'To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and [...]

As a little prince with a pageboy haircut, Don Prospero Colonna di Paliano, Prince of Avella, played among the Roman statues and laurel and box hedges in the magnificent terraced [...]

YOU CAN'T BUILD A HOUSE in the middle of the ocean,' admits Alys Beach. Florida, homeowner Dan Castro. 'We knew this. But when our architects asked us what we wanted, [...]

Characters CHORUS 1 as many as CHORUS 2 desired in each CHORUS 3 group CHORUS 4 JUPITER JUNO APOLLO MERCURY CAUPO, innkeeper UXOR CAUPONIS, his wife DOMINUS, wealthy landowner DOMINA, [...]

I WAS LAST HERE IN 1992. THEN IT WAS THE 4.0-LITER INLINE-SIX WITH A THREE-SPEED AUTOMATIC; TODAY IT'S A 3.6-LITER V-6 WITH AN EIGHT-SPEED AUTOMATIC.IN THE YEAR 49 B.C., emperor [...]

Sustainable development encapsulates the idea that material progress must always go hand in hand with social inclusion and respect for the environment. Delinking economic growth from the other two pillars [...]

Education is obviously of enormous value to students of all ages. Often overlooked, however, is the incredible value of teaching to the teacher, specifically the cognitive benefits a teacher gains. [...]

Like your history juicy? There's only one place to look. The Tudor era is stuffed full of England's most interesting personalities, events and stories: Henry VII and the Battle of [...]

ANTONI GAUDI WAS sickly as a boy, with legs so weak and painful he often had to ride around his city of Reus, in Spain, on the back of a [...]

WHAT'S THE APPEAL OF STILL LIFE PAINTING? The painting of inanimate objects dates back thousands of years. Egyptians made offerings to the gods with tomb paintings of food. Roman mosaics [...]

Each morning I drink a glass of warm lemon water to jump start my day. I learned years ago that drinking lemon water benefits me in so many ways. Lemons [...]

More than a decade in the making, this summer the Canadian Opera Company fine-tunes its biggest and riskiest creative venture in two decades. In October, the curtain goes up on [...]

The city of Eboracum (modern-day York) is the bustling capital of the Roman province of Britannia in the year AD 183. Torix lives in the vicus, the area of the [...]

If you are moderately long of tooth, you might remember the classic Laugh-In line uttered by Artie Johnson: 'Veerrry intieresstingk...!' I'll admit I'm that old--older probably, after spending 50-plus years [...]

The joy of the Square Mile, the oldest part of London, dating back to Roman times, is that it's virtually a museum in its own right. It's hard to walk [...]

Miles: 130 * Days on the Road: 4 * Sunset Spot: L'Etang de Grande Palun * Top Souvenir: Camargue fleurde sel (sea salt) Head to western Europe's largest delta, where [...]

One of the Egyptian antiquities held for sale in Christie's Auction House - ET CAIRO -- 16 December 2020: Christie's International Auction House in London is preparing to present the [...]

Byline: Steve Myers What would I like Santa and Father Time (or Baby New Year or, if you are into the classics, the Roman God Janus, who got a month [...]