Due to wartime blackout regulations, the Rockefeller tree and all other outdoor Christmas decorations were forced to remain dark throughout the holiday season. However, the year after, they would return bigger than ever, with organizers going all out to celebrate the end of the war. 22 / 100...
When I was born way back in 1963, my name,Riley, was given to less than 5 babies born in the entire United States. I was actually in my middle 20s before I met another person with that name. Things have changed in the baby-naming world quite a bit since then. Last year, according...
so there is an air of mystery about her as she quietly takes the longest and happiest walk she will ever take.'He had, of course, no way of knowing the path the Princess's life would take, nor that he would one day be called upon to provide the solemn commentary at her funeral.Wha...
So, in a sense, we might say that if ‘the Middle Ages’didend up being associated more strongly with Northern Europe (broadly understood) than other places, that might be because renaissance thinkers put them there—and later people believed them. It turns out that muddling up space with t...
Art and architecture have always been the most powerful expressions of wealth, and throughout history emperors, popes, princes and private patrons have been defined by what they have left behind. There are countless examples of art collections and the buildings that house them achieving an exquisite...
They helped fund a large number of the abbeys and monasteries and were allowed to take refuge there in times of commotion which came from time to time for religious or commercial reasons. They needed the refuge. Clerics and Popes routinely stirred up ill-feeling against the Jews as the "...
But for Ramandane, Latin is ideal. How does one revive an ancient, largely dead language? The case of Israel’s revival of Modern Hebrew is used as proof that it’s possible. This is perceived as crucial and necessary if Europe will ever fulfil its dream of...
The article above claims that Christians and Muslims once got along in Muslim-ruled Spain, and the Crusaders drove a wedge between the two populations. But even historians who celebrate Muslim Spain admit that most non-Muslims there lived as second-class citizens subject to various forms of legal...