How to watch: Mary and George is now streaming on Sky and NOW TV in the UK and on Starz in the U.S. 13. The Day of the Jackal Credit: Sky One of the best assassin thrillers TV's seen in an age alongside Black Doves, The Day of the Jackal was a surefire hit this year. Eddie...
Many of the Greek myths that described the age before history were set in places other than Greece itself: the story of Jason and Medea takes place in Colchis, on the Black Sea; Perseus fights a monster off the coast of Palestine; Odysseus wanders all over the Mediterranean as far as Ita...
Ancient Greek Medicine & Philosophy– Spirit or pneuma for breath was regarded as the animating force found in living creatures. We see this idea carried on by folk beliefs where in 1628 and 1633, William Harvey and René Descartes both speculated that there must be somewhere in the body a p...
The Rioni’s humble presence, though, belies its much grander past: This was the site of the ancient kingdom of Colchis, best known as the place where Jason took the Golden Fleece and found a Colchian wife, Medea. Ancient historian Herodotus identified the Rioni, then known as the ...
These days at least one chef in every midsize American city leads a committed charge toward local sourcing and building lasting relationships with nearby farms. In Baltimore, it was Spike Gjerde. But in the last couple of years, the direction of his restaurant (which opened in 2007) has dee...