Thousands of tourists, pagans, druids and people yearning for the promise of spring have marked the dawn of the shortest day ...

As the first rays of sunlight pierced through the frosty morning sky, thousands of people gathered at the iconic Stone ...

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Aesop's Fables are some of the most famous stories with moral lessons in history, and many of the tales are used to guide ...

Full of chilling sequences and appropriately outsized performances, gothic horror feast immerses you in the creepy German ...

The 2024 winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, happens on Saturday, Dec. 21, and is marked with traditions and ...

Ancient Greeks believed in supernatural causes for almost all events and attributed them to the goddess Tyche. The Romans believed in her, too, renaming her Fortuna. The English word fortune is ...

Night watchman Roland Borg is one of several fascinating people profiled in the new book “Custodians of Wonder.” ...

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Little was known about the manuscript, which donated by Edward Ayer, a tycoon who made his fortune supplying railroad ties.

Artificial intelligence came of age in 2024, helping to decode the mysteries of ancient scrolls, whale vocalizations, the ...