In 1761, Phillis Wheatley came to America on a slave ship, but soon became its first African-American poet with knowledge of ...

If a person gets sick, healers within the Santería tradition do spiritual cleansing to try to return somebody to health, ...

The ancient Egyptians and modern Egyptians alike sometimes name their newborns after festivals or even the day they were born ...

In different passage, Aulus tells us about some bookstalls he came across when he arrived by ship at the port of Brundisium ...

Still, the fancy persists, implanted like a microchip, ever since Erich von Däniken’s 1968 best-seller, “Chariots of the Gods ...

The issue of who was considered Greek during the era of ancient Greece has been a matter of broad scholarly debate for ...

Our modern calendar is the Gregorian calendar, named for Pope Gregory XIII, who reformed it in 1582 to correct some errors in ...

Great TV shows like What We Do in the Shadows and Parks and Recreation showed a willingness to keep improving, raising the ...

Ryan Hurst is officially stepping into one of the most legendary roles in gaming history. The actor has been cast as Kratos ...

On her first day as the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury, there were signs that it would not be easy for Dame Sarah Mullally.

But warnings from the fathers of democracy against the foolishness of avarice and pride are often ignored as evidenced by ...

Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama of Nigeria’s Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja has urged Nigerians  to rediscover the Bible as ...