Carey was the big draw in Milan’s San Siro stadium, though she was outweighed in the end by pop-classical artists – and a sizeable dollop of kitsch ...

It was the moment the Milan Cortina Olympics officially began. With approximately 80,000 spectators filling the stadium, the ...

Inside a church just outside Naples, people known as femminielli gathered for La Juta, a centuries-old Candlemas pilgrimage ...

NASA’s Libera instrument, which is designed to maintain the global data record of Earth’s radiation budget, has successfully ...

If you look to the south on a dark and clear winter evening, you’ll see a familiar seven-star pattern that forms the ...

In 1796, while scampering through fields behind his house in Ribchester, England, a young boy stumbled upon a hoard of over ...

January isn’t named for snow, cold, or a fresh calendar page. It’s named for a Roman god with two faces.That detail sounds ...

In the mythology of ancient Greece and Rome, the harpies were a group of animal-human hybrid monsters like the sirens and the ...

Ancient Greeks saw Olympus as a divine realm of Zeus and the gods, not a mountain. Its link to Mount Olympus emerged in later traditions.

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If you have seen a movie starring Gerard Butler, there is a good chance you have also seen a movie directed by Ric Roman Waugh. He is the filmmaker’s muse of sorts, having worked together on all types ...