Amidst the list of America’s founding fathers who are inextricably linked with the 4th of July, one name sticks out: George Washington. Thomas Jefferson. Benjamin Franklin. Pyotr Ilyich ...

On the same day, King Leopold II gives Congo, previously a private possession, to Belgium. 1898: Joshua Slocum completes the first solo circumnavigation of the world. 1900: In an effort to stem ...

Inside the world of British jeweler, silversmith, and goldsmith Mappin & Webb as it celebrates its 250th anniversary.

By Harut Sassounian With each passing day, Armenia is sliding further into dictatorship. The vulgar, even pornographic, ...

Guercino’s King David has now joined its two companion works at the National Gallery, settling £5.6m in inheritance tax ...

Many writers have explored Paris through art, literature and food, but “Nobody Sits Like the French” takes a different approach, thanks to Minnesota writer Charles Pappas’ knowledge of the exposition ...

Time heals all wounds, it is said, and that certainly is the case in Russia. Moscow has unveiled a new statue of Joseph ...

Since the late 1970s the Nationalist Party has sought as its main ideological beacon Christian Democracy and subsequently established strong links with Italy's Democrazia Cristiana. Over the span of ...

The last Romanov emperor, Nicholas II, owned 21 of these portrait figures, two of which depict the Cossack bodyguards of the Romanov empresses. This article examines the hardstone figures through ...