Time-telling with clocks—and mechanical clocks in particular—has played a significant role in the development and shaping of human societies and the growth of industry. And, for good reason, people ...

Tourists to the Renaissance capital might well believe that visiting art galleries and museums is the only way to achieve the ...

For the Louvre, the world’s most visited museum, it is “statistically inevitable” that fraud would come up at some point, the museum’s No. 2 said in the wake of a decade-long, 10 ...

Afghanistan has shrugged off back-to-back defeats in its first two games to finally register a first win at cricket’s ...

Friday the 13th may be a day to lay low if you're superstitious. But if you're not, there are food deals and horror movies to watch. What to know.

Friday the 13th is here, offering a chance for discounted tattoos. Here's why some people choose this day to get a tattoo and ...

There are three Friday the 13ths in 2026, and no, it's not a bad omen. This (somewhat) rare phenomenon happens more often than you'd think.

Friday the 13th — often considered an unlucky day by triskaidekaphobics and Crystal Lake’s camp counselors — usually only occurs once or twice per year. But for the first time since 2015, the 2026 ...

What is it about Fridays and the number 13 that sends people into a superstitious tizzy? To find out, you need to go back a few thousand years or so.

In the decades preceding the fall of the Crusader Kingdom in 1291, the port city of Acre became a unique microcosm of the medieval Jewish world. It served as the meeting point for two distinct, often ...

References to the plant life appear in many types of Indian literature, offering clues to what local inhabitants would have been familiar with from the world around them at the time. For example, the ...

First, let's set the scene. Imagine a nunnery in Budapest, Hungary. DETROW: A place where the devout might have sung chants like this one. (SOUNDBITE OF GREGORIAN CHANTING) DETROW: About 800 years ago ...