Ancient records show an Egyptian king prior to Homer's time also went by the name of Heracles. Could his life have influenced ...

The late great author Michael Crichton gave Hollywood one of its biggest franchises, Jurassic Park — still going strong — and the television monster hit ER. Most of his novels became major films, ...

Turizo seamlessly navigates from merengue to bachata to reggae to regional Colombian music, and beyond. By Jessica Roiz Associate Editor, Latin After his acclaimed “La Bachata” that reached No. 1 on ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Speaking to the faux-antique verses of the Psoad are footnoted comments by the fictional scholar who ...

Diomedes was the brave Greek hero who, along with the help of Athena, wounded Ares, the god of war, in Homer’s Iliad. Painting of Diomedes ready to throw his spear at Ares with Athena on his side by ...

On Wednesday, March 30, Netflix will premiere its first documentary made in Colombia, a revealing work that chronicles the life and career of Colombian singer Diomedes Díaz, whose legacy was ...

The short story Rip Van Winkle, written in 1819 by the American writer Washington Irving, is about a man who woke up after a sleep of more than two decades. Although such a work of fiction is a ...

Many stories have been told about the feats performed by this demi-god around the Mediterranean. One of the most renowned of these tales is known as the 12 Labors of Hercules. In brief, these were a ...

Historians who have pored over old etiquette books have noticed that handshaking in the modern sense of a greeting doesn’t appear until the mid-19th century, when it was considered a slightly improper ...

As Trump and Putin meet in Alaska, two twin islands connected by an ice bridge in the Bering Strait are a reminder that the US and Russia's culture and history are deeply intertwined. When Russian ...