We reached out to David A. Salomon, author of "The Seven Deadly Sins: How Sin Influenced the West from the Middle Ages to the Modern Era," to learn why medieval artists became obsessed with portrayals ...

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The patterns of Earth’s high winds have surprisingly widespread effects on life on the ground. A recent study in the journal Nature shows that when the summer jet stream over Europe veers north or ...

In Germany’s Eifel region, viewing the power of volcanic forces is as simple as making a visit to the placid city of Mendig. Beneath the surface lies a network of basalt caves carved by human hand ...

Ghost stories go back to ancient and medieval Europe, where their tales did not rely as much on shock value to scare ...

There’s something uniquely thrilling about discovering a place that transports you to another time and place, and in Golden ...

The document is not only an artifact of California history but also a second-class relic, as Serra was canonized in 2015, ...

The Holy Roman Empire stretches from the Middle Ages to the present day. Throughout its history, emperors have worked for ...

The story of a much deadlier catastrophe, an 1855 yellow fever epidemic in Norfolk and Portsmouth, nearly vanished from the ...

As the 15th playing of the biennial bout prepares to tee off at Royal Montreal Golf Club, take a scroll through the year-by-year history and results of the Presidents Cup. The United States won the ...