I magine a 100-foot high chariot with 24 wheels — each 12 foot in diameter — being pulled by seven horses! Yes, we are talking of the Sun Temple at Konark, Odisha. In the late ...

A Man Escaped’ is a story of a man seeking temporal salvation, but Robert Bresson’s film takes on deeper meaning, becoming a ...

The story of the dragon is attached to George fairly late. It first appears in a prologue added in the 12th century to the ...

There are many people in the Bible who experienced firsthand the healing power of Jesus. Most of them remain anonymous: the blind man, the deaf-mute man, the 10 lepers — “if they were written every ...

Civil War America, a small number of Jewish slaveowners defended the practice. Other prominent Jews joined with abolitionists ...

When Martin Luther sent his 95 Theses to the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, in 1517, he was in part attacking the ...

As Pesach arrives once more, eyes will inevitably turn to the Haggadah’s centuries-old short prayer known as Shefoch ...

Not since the days of Erich von Daniken's "Chariots of the Gods," director Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third ...

After nearly a century of inattention, the Fountain of Apollo at Versailles was completely restored using 17th-century ...

As you enter a conference room in the Olin Library, you’re greeted by stacks of comic books with bright hues of orange and ...

The oldest Tamil epics are based on women from mercantile families. It has nothing to do with warriors or priests. The ...

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