Of course, there’s the taboo, practiced widely in Bengal until a few decades ago, that forbade widowed women from eating salt ...

When the Roman Empire began collapsing, Christianity prevailed and the Roman Catholic Church kept its territories together.

Chargers Offensive Coordinator Greg Roman meets with the media to discuss the upcoming matchup against the Steelers defense, ...

The wholesale revision of the calendar largely eliminated a long-developed sense of time and season which helped sanctify ...

Scheidel, Walter 2003. The Greek demographic expansion: models and comparisons. The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 123, Issue. , p. 120.

The more playful typography of the date scale interacts with the Roman-numeral hour indices in a sort of push ... but unlike ...

In 1814, observing from a ship in Baltimore harbor, Francis Scott Key was inspired to write the poem “Defence of Fort McHenry” (later “The Star-Spangled Banner”) after witnessing the American flag ...

The mysterious Sibylline Books were secretly kept Greek oracle collections that the rulers of ancient Rome consulted in times ...

◼️ September, which comes from the Roman word, septem, which means seven, was the seventh month on the Roman calendar. It became the ninth month on Gregorian calendar, which went into use in 1582. It ...

This calendar is an ancient version of the Julian calendar used in the Roman province of Africa. It is an agricultural ...

As the calendar ushers in fall, now is the perfect time to visit Europe. That’s because the weather is still pleasant, and ...

Day tradition of pranks has unknown origins, with theories pointing to the 16th century calendar change from Julian to ...