While serving as ambassador to Czechoslovakia, he worked to shield the writer and dissident Vaclav Havel, who became the ...

Easily recognizable as the elephantdeity riding a mouse Ganesha is arguably he most popular Hindu God and one of the commonest mnemonics for anything associated with Hinduism The son of Shiva and Parv ...

As part of the Franciscan monastery Humac, Ljubuški, there is a collection of art which, with its permanent exhibition called “Mother”, today numbers slightly more than 800 works. The official opening ...

An artist’s testament to vanishing bazaars and buildings is an intimate portrait of a city disappearing behind glass towers ...

Mahatma Gandhi was killed today in 1948 For readers interested in remembering what exactly happened that day I present the text of the newspaper report as it appeared in The New York Times that dayThe ...

Twenty years after his premature death while filming a movie in Shanghai, one of modern China's most important artists, Chen ...

Uighur artist Aniwar Mamat was born and raised in western China’s Xinjiang region, home to many of the mostly Muslim minority ...

Massachusetts was one of the original 13 colonies that founded the United States. Known as the “Bay State,” there are loads of things to do in Massachusetts. Massachusetts has a rich history, art, ...

Applebaum: Presumably, the body that would be responsible for enforcing, you know, corruption laws against the president is ...

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A vacant home that has been the site of multiple fires prompted yet another response Monday by the Decatur Fire Department.

Eleven inmate deaths in less than two months. More than 4,000 staff vacancies. A $3 billion repair backlog. And now, a ...