As the Great Fire of London swept through the city in 1666, destroying over 13,000 houses in its wake, the now-famed diarist Samuel Pepys was on a mission. On the third day of the fire, while London ...

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TIC TAC operators run nip-and-tuck with signaling British motorists and Roman traffic police as the greatest arm wavers in the world. Tic Tac is the semaphore system (without flags) used at race ...

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January brings with it a sense of renewal, of the opportunity to start afresh and to make resolutions to improve ourselves and our lives. It is a time to reflect on our past and on our future hopes.

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Several years ago, Ryan Baumann, a digital humanities developer at Duke University, was leafing through an early 20th-century collection of ancient Greek manuscripts when he ran across an intriguing ...

Illustrating the First Principles of the Art, with their Adaptation to the Wants of Literary, Professional, and Business Men. Designed as a Text-Book for Classes and Private Instruction. By DAVID ...

“Reading the hieroglyphs defines, nowadays, Egyptology,” said Dimitri Laboury at The Harvard Museum of Science & Culture webinar, “On the Literacy and Education of Ancient Egyptian Artists,” Thursday, ...

For his first exhibition of new work since 2008, Simon Lewty presents a remarkable group of drawings in which compelling new developments are immediately evident. His chance discovery of Thomas ...

LITTLE ROCK — It was, and I say this with all humility, the highlight of my long and fecund professional newspaper columnist career. April 1 marks 30 years on the job, and to be declared a “living ...