By Zhou Tongsu and Shang Bing At the foot of the Acropolis in Athens, there are two statues standing face to face in the ...

From "spill the beans" to "shoot the breeze," navigating American English can be a minefield for non-native speakers.

Civilization. Civilian. Civil Society. Civilized. Civility. Civil rights. Civics and Civic responsibility. Civil — the word and its derivatives originated from the Latin civilis. Isn’t it interesting ...

By Han XiaoOver 2,400 years ago, during the time of the Peloponnesian War that engulfed Greece, the leader of the Greeks, Pericles, delivered his famous ‘Funeral Oration’ to commemorate the soldiers ...

Olympus Has Fallen (And It Can't Get Up) is an hour-long sketch show that takes audiences on an outrageous journey through the myths, gods, and monsters of ancient Greece. See the performance at ...

In the second in her series on county towns, Rosita Boland discovers there is a lot more to Sligo than its Yeats connection ...

And when they share a kiss among the dusty books, it's clear that for Anna, Oxford is more than school and it's a turning point ... exploring dreamy locations like the canals of Venice, ancient ruins ...

Ancient athletic competitions shaped how people thought about beauty, the body, self-control, education and competition. For victorious gladiators, the outcast and the slave could paradoxically embody ...

You might call Ivy Pochoda the bard of bad women, an auteur of feminine fierceness. For proof, look no further than the ...

For more than 120 years, the focal point of community life here has been the Armenian Orthodox Church of the Virgin Mary, ...