For the first time in over a century, Parisians and tourists will be able to take a refreshing dip in the River Seine.

First-­century Christians did not immediately free all of their slaves when they were filled with the Holy Spirit or when they joined a Christian assembly. Moss acknowledges that Christianity ...

Carl Hagenbeck believed that animals should be housed in habitats that mimicked their natural environment. Earlier, he'd ...

With queer lives under threat, Our Queerest Century highlights the contributions of LGBTQ+ people since the 1924 founding of the nation's first gay rights organization.

People work on the excavation of a Roman mass grave from the end of the 1st century A.D., in the Simmering district of Vienna, in November. Credit ...

The story of Rome’s Emperors in the first century AD has got it all – love, murder and revenge, ... Emperors could only survive if their people believed they could outgun anyone and everyone else.

FIRST seen in a CENTURY - Forgotten Valuable TREASURE buried here. Posted: April 28, 2025 | Last updated: April 28, 2025. This week we set out on a search for lost Valuable treasures from the past ...

The year 2022 saw the public return its attention to controversial public policy issues that grabbed our attention before the pandemic struck the United States from the winter of 2019 through 2021.

Twenty-first-century people acknowledge, even expect, an “on-demand” culture. Partly, that means we want to be entertained at times of our choosing, rather than waiting for some “real ...

Since at least 2013, a rumor has circulated online that illegal gambling dens in 18th-century England hired people to swallow dice in the event of a police raid. In short, there is no credible ...