New biography of Boston-born Alexander, who made her name in Florence with her delicate illustrations of Italian folk ballads ...

A major folk saint in the northeastern part of Brazil, 19th-century Padre (Father) Ibiapina was officially declared Venerable ...

For about a decade, the prevailing view in the media has been that single mothers were not shunned in Estonian villages.

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One leading botanist is scouring remote corners of the earth to find new species that could keep our mugs full ...

But his obsession with stenophylla only began about 15 years ago with one antique book, he tells me as he scans ... Scientists first described stenophylla in 1834, when it was still being actively ...

My extended family has an abiding passion for St. John and Virgin Islands National Park.  Could my first trip possibly live ...

From France to Florida, here are six of the very best luxury Art Deco hotels around the world to book in 2025.

Now after years of painstaking collaborative work with the university’s Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory (CHIL), ...

“It was first thought to be a 14th-century story about Sir Gawain but further examination revealed it to be part of the Old French Vulgate Merlin sequel, a different and extremely significant ...