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Pelletier, a professor at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and the Catholic Institute of Paris, has discovered a series of ...

Ancient Greeks developed sophisticated units of measurement ranging from measuring length, distance, volume, and weight of ...

Marianne Faithfull was a star in her own right; Peggy Caserta was a hippie tastemaker. Their memoirs are riveting.

I sift through the hundreds of tracks that bombard my inbox. On a biweekly basis, I tell you about the two artists whose ...

Tax day has changed history, with examples including the Rosetta Stone, Julius Caesar's progressive policies, Caesar Augustus's tax on beards and Lady Godiva's ride to repeal taxes.