For centuries, two of the mostintriguing questionsabout Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” were “Who?” and “When?”A discovery made atHeidelberg University in 2005 pretty much answered both. A note written in amanuscriptin the library confirmedthe account ofda Vinci’s firstbiographer, Giorg...
For centuries, Poland has been a bridge between Western and Eastern Europe. Poland is roughly square. It’s bordered by the Baltic Sea to the northwest, by Germany to the west, the Czech and Slovak republics to the south and Ukraine, Lithuania and Russia to the east. The flat central bel...
Let your kids decide! The Loch Ness monster has intrigued people for hundreds of centuries! This interesting book invites your young readers to discover the marvelous mystery through retellings of the earliest sightings of Nessie and even some of the science behind this mystery!
The New York Review of Books offers “literary napkins” for Valentine’s Day, with passionate quotes from various scribes through the centuries, and I think anyone in the swirl of admiration for a lovely dominatrix, or any lady for that matter, can relate to James Joyce’s words to Nora ...
The changes that were predicted by the earliest software prophets seems to be only the beginning. The religion that germinated on the ORIGINS conference tree — was its origin any stranger or less likely than the dominant religions of today that sprang up centuries ago in dusty Middle Eastern ...
While most of the other games on this list put you in a randomly-generated world or galaxy, EU4 is built on an extremely in-depth recreation of Earth between the years of 1444 and 1821. You can lead any nation on the planet, from France to the Comanche, through centuries of colonizatio...
menus at chic restaurants around the country. A Taste for Absinthe celebrates this storied and complex liquor by bringing you 65 cocktail recipes from America's hottest mixologists to enjoy as you discover the spirit that has fascinated artists, musicians, and writers for centuries.Absinthe expert ...
King Arthur is the most famous figure to seek the cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper, but others came before him—and their tales are as ornate as the object itself.
That’s obviously not the case – Russia has been producing clockworks and watches for centuries almost on par and in the same timeframe as the rest of Western Europe to certain technological extents, that is. Those who remember playing 2K11 would recall how tough these challenges were, so ...
Whether you’re a dog connoisseur or not, it’s safe to say that dogs have been around for centuries and have made themselves indispensable to humans. However, the domestic fox is a proud animal with a distinguished history dating back almost 10,000 years. There are countless reasons why a...