Bengali textile workers were not enslaved as ancillary to men or as commodities of pleasure alone. They were enslaved and ...

Bhutan offers the best of both worlds, from ancient monasteries to modern luxury hotels. Spear's embarked on a time travel to ...

Peter Stumpp's alleged crimes and execution remain one of the most legendary — and disputed — werewolf trials in history ...

Philanderer, womaniser, and drunkard” are the words used to inaccurately describe 16th century Buddhist monk Drukpa Kunley in foreign journalistic and tourist writings, author Needrup Zangpo said at ...

Guru Nanak Dev the founder of Sikh religion observed the pathetic condition of women in the society Guru Nanak comdemned the attitude of maledominated human society denying the due respectable status ...

A 16th-century Florentine noblewoman, Lisa Gherardini was the wife of a successful silk merchant named Francesco del Giocondo. But was she also the subject of the Mona Lisa? Many scholars believe she ...

You might be hearing about the gulf off the coast of the U.S. and Mexico. Here's what to know about the body of water the ...

When Alessandro Michele was growing up in Rome in the 1970s, one of his favourite pastimes was to rummage through his ...

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In North America, MennoMedia is releasing a new study Bible that features the reflections of 597 Bible study groups from 18 ...

Yathees Kumar, the archaeologist, suggests that even though the continuity of human settlement in the area is not recorded, ...