When Charles Stratton was born in 1838, he was a normal baby of slightly above-average weight. But at six months old and 25 ...

“From 12-foot-high ceilings to Italian marble gas fireplaces ... on the street since its original construction in the mid-19th century. The building that stands on the site today is a ...

Amsterdam celebrates a milestone event in 2025: its 750th anniversary, which is officially Oct. 27 (the day the city was ...

While Zoelsmanns stocks potica year-round, Provost makes a specialty batch that not everyone gets. Zoelsmanns Bakery is at ...

The middle value of all realized prices for an artist's works sold at auction during a given period, providing a clearer representation of typical market values by minimizing the influence of extreme ...

The collection, which the Maillets began building in the 1960s, captures the breadth of this mid-19th-century energy. There’s the rush to capture the fledgling nation’s important monuments ...

‘There is this intense rise in fascism’: Simon McBurney on a 19th-century opera that feels painfully familiar on facebook (opens in a new window) ‘There is this intense rise in fascism ...

They are typically artifacts from within the last century that get misplaced for a few decades. This book in particular was donated by a family with close ties to the surgeon who anatomized Corder ...

The Yale University Art Gallery announces the extraordinary gift/purchase of more than 190 late 18th- and 19th-century Italian drawings, watercolors, and sketchbooks from the collection of Roberta J.

Don Bosco offers a heartfelt look at the life of St. John Bosco, the beloved 19th-century Italian priest who dedicated his life to the care of disadvantaged youth. The film has a compassionate ...

Almost 4,000 years ago, an unknown scholar in ancient Mesopotamia wrote the first known book on a series of clay tablets. The ...