Happy April, DC! Spring into April at a rap concert with Tyler, The Creator. Then, attend one—or several—cherry blossom ...

The conspicuous absence of caste in the public consciousness of Bengal is accompanied by an equally noticeable lack of a ...

Cristina Roccati graduated from the University of Bologna when few other Italian women earned degrees, and she taught physics ...

Bacteria have mostly been portrayed as villains that make us sick, but the Human Microbiome Project showed that we share our body with an astounding number of bacteria.

White supremacy remains a very potent weapon for the powerful in this country and I don't think that the far left should ...

Dr Jakub Beneš has published a new book 'The Last Peasant War: Violence and Revolution in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe' Jakub Beneš’s recently published book The Last Peasant War: Violence and ...

How did a 14th century peasant woman get caught up in a number of religious controversies? Was she possessed? Was she ill? Was she undergoing a divine ‘state of grace’? Trump says he'll raise ...

Improvised oral poetry, known as "repentismo" or "punto cubano" when set to music, was introduced to Latin America by Spanish colonists in the 16th century, and remains an integral part of Cuba's ...

Ireland was invaded and conquered by England in the 17th century, although it remained notionally independent. Its economy was subordinated to Britain’s, its Irish Catholic majority vilified and ...

It is the first time 17th-century abatises have been recovered, archaeologists said. The large stakes were found in the castle’s moat, archaeologists said. Wessex Archaeology “Four stakes ...

The 17th-century oil painting depicts a peasant woman holding tongs with hot coals in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. Until its disappearance, it had been on display at the National ...

This small round painting, measuring just 17 centimetres in diameter, depicts a peasant woman holding smouldering embers and a cauldron, symbolising an old Dutch proverb about duplicity.