A novel biochemical analysis of a Renaissance medical text has successfully recovered centuries-old proteins that might be ...

Frying is one of the oldest ways to cook food. But over the years, more than a few vintage recipes have fallen out of favor ...

Crafted in 2004 from a diamond belt made in 1840, the tiara carries Danish royal history straight into the present. Denmark's King Frederik X and Queen Mary arrive at the New Year reception and ...

In fashion parlance, a “grail” usually means something far removed from the days of King Arthur. But this season, all things Middle Ages have been everywhere. Glenn Martens cited “medieval ...

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In February, the United Kingdom government appointed a working group to provide a definition of “anti-Muslim hatred/Islamophobia”, which should have completed its work by the end of August. In the ...

Why, every Christmas, do so many people endure the mess of dried pine needles, the risk of a fire hazard and impossibly tangled strings of lights? Strapping a fir tree to the hood of my car and ...

What is the meaning of Christmas? Celebrating the birth of Jesus? Exchanging presents? Feasting with family and friends? Enjoying the festive atmosphere? Decorating and baking? Performing acts of ...

In “Fashion and the Unconscious,” a book from 1953, the psychoanalyst Edmund Bergler describes a patient in her mid-thirties who wore so much gray clothing that her friends called her the Lady in Gray ...

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