The Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris has always been one of the world's most important architectural and cultural landmarks. In ...

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The Satanic Temple continues its annual holiday tradition of erecting satanic displays near Nativity scenes on government ...

Scientists have reconstructed the face of the real-life bishop Saint Nicholas, who is said to have inspired the concept of ...

Why do we have Christmas trees? Christmas trees were first celebrated thousands of years ago by pagans, who used evergreen ...

The white oak (Quercus alba) is a perennial tree of the Fagaceae family that best grows on rich, heavy, upland soil at a relatively slow growth rate of 12” to 24” every year. It is a medium to tall ...

Eric Williams began his address to the Second Congress of Negro Writers and Artists Conference in Rome in 1959 by quoting African intellectual Alioune Diop, who said: “There can be ...

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A shaggy, half-demon monster with curved horns is the starring character of a raucous, jubilant holiday celebration coming to ...

[14] Still, there was a definite sense in which gangsters adopted a ‘Robin Hood’ role, distributing some of their spoils to the community. They thus remained a symbol of the struggle in many townships ...