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Five millennia or so ago, a goddess with the body of a woman and the head of a lion, called Mafdet, was worshipped in Egypt.  She was the ...

"Some people, when they think of Southern California, think of nuts.  Not the kind that grow in trees, but the kind that swing in tr...

Front page of the NY Times on Armistice Day, November 11, 1918. Today is the anniversary of Armistice Day commemorating the armistice si...

Although papercutting is an old art genre, and one practiced in cultures the world over, modern artists are seeking new ways to create wit...

Manneken Pis is a very famous landmark in Brussels, Belgium.  The name is from the Dutch dialect Marols, spoken in Brussels, and means lite...

The huge glass dome of the Hall of Mirrors.  Image courtesy of the Daily Mail . Looking for a religious community where your depth of i...

By 1922, approximately two millions Greeks had come to Greece - Greeks who had never lived in Greece.  They came from Anatolia, where most ...