This is understood as a prohibition of using animal and human forms in texts, textiles and architecture. Islamic calligraphy and illustrated manuscripts have been highly prized for millennia. The ...

Calligraphy, literally "beautiful writing," has been appreciated as an art form in many different cultures throughout the world, but the stature of calligraphy in Chinese culture is unmatched. In ...

Henri Fantin-Latour was a French painter best known for his delicate and acutely observed renderings of flowers, still lifes, and group portraits. Though associated with the Impressionists and Édouard ...

Henri J. Barkey is an adjunct senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and the Bernard L. and Bertha F. Cohen chair in international relations at Lehigh University.

Regardless of his backstory, Henry is certainly a remarkable beast. He shares his current habitat with another old croc ...

The Henry Repeating Arms Company got its start in the late 1990s building an affordable, lever-action .22 LR rifle. The flagship of the company's .22 line-up became the Golden Boy, a rifle whose ...

HENRY V: The Astonishing Triumph of England’s Greatest Warrior King, by Dan Jones Why read a new, 400-page biography of England’s King Henry V? Because, writes the best-selling historian and ...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. Emmy and Peabody Award ...

Derrick Henry's 87-yard run on Sunday night was more than just a big play that helped the Ravens trample the Bills. It was reinforcement that "The King" has not relinquished his crown as the NFL's ...

Windy today but less so than yesterday. There will be hazy sunny spells in the morning. Turning increasingly sunny in the afternoon as the high cloud clears to the south-east. Easing winds later ...

Derrick Henry needed just one carry to make history Sunday night. Leading off the Baltimore Ravens' first offensive possession of Week 4's prime-time matchup with the Buffalo Bills, the star ...