New Year celebrations in Scotland are an important part of the calendar. Called Hogmanay, festivities such as fireworks and ...

The cacophonous, cider-slinging midwinter tradition of wassailing is an ancient one that continues to this day. Laura Parker ...

Sing a Song of Sixpence is endlessly reinterpreted. One popular explanation makes it a rhyme about the Dissolution of the ...

It is not often that I get what I want for Christmas. Hints do not work…but oddly this year, I actually got two tickets to ...

There are certain accoutrements that rulers across time appear to have agreed are necessary symbols of power. You probably want a crown, which might be made of precious metal, leaves, or possibly even ...

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Many people have keepsake boxes in which they safeguard personal items accumulated during their lives—a few faded family photos, a folded love letter from a summer romance, a single earring that was ...

Grave 109 at Oakington is a rare triple burial, holding the remains of a female infant, a young woman (left) and an older woman (center). Duncan Sayer The soldiers arrived in “three ships of war, with ...

The Canadian government has approved Anglo American Plc’s acquisition of Teck Resources Ltd., helping to clear the way for the creation of a US$50 billion metals giant focused on copper mines in Chile ...

Teck Resources Limited TECK announced that the Supreme Court of British Columbia approved its previously announced merger agreement with Anglo American plc NGLOY. This pushes the deal closer to ...

A brand new medieval village has been discovered in Suffolk, England, near the modern village of Friston in eastern England, according to Medievalists. Researchers believe that an Anglo-Saxon ...

The Canadian government has approved Vancouver-based Teck Resources Ltd.’s merger with Anglo American PLC, which will create a major copper producer with operations centred in the Americas. The new ...