Imagine the terror of awakening in a confined, pitch-black underground space slowly suffocating to death 6ft under while trapped in your own coffin. You can't see ...
Taking as his epigraph Benedetto Croce’s maxim that ‘all history is contemporary history,’ Murray proposes that Western European historiography of ancient Greece and Rome since the 18th century has ...
During the 18th and 19th century, automata reached new levels of ... the Turk had nevertheless enthralled audiences throughout Europe and America for over a century and blurred the distinction ...
From lively beer festivals to huge communal cook-offs, Europe knows how to celebrate its food and drink. And during the harvest season, which generally runs from mid-September to the end of ...
Another explanation was offered by Theologian Johann Süssmilch, who observed the phenomenon in 18th-Century Europe. Divine Providence, he said, brings more boy babies into the world to compensate ...
Sotheby's plans to auction a rare 18th-century diamond necklace in Geneva on November 11. Comprising around 500 diamonds and potentially linked to Marie Antoinette, the piece is estimated to fetch ...
American Century has made its European debut with two active ETFs capturing global equities and small caps. The Avantis Global Equity UCITS ETF (AVWC) and Avantis Global Small Cap Value UCITS ETF ...