Casanova was a cynical seducer, but also studied law, took holy orders, played the violin and carried out Venice’s most ...

Julie Valdivia, owner of KC Conjure and Botanica, digs deep into her spirituality to help create a more well-rounded ...

Several Venetian popes were elected from the 1400s to 1700s, and Venetian diplomat Alvise ... had become rigid and highly corrupt. The nobility, formerly active merchants, had become passive ...

There's a 1697 French engraving that shows a woman at the King's court playing peg solitaire, and if it had reached the highest circles of nobility ... back to the late 1700s in northern Europe.

WASHINGTON — The nearly 1,700 employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) were told Monday not to come to the office or do any work — as the agency became the latest target of ...

After detailed scans of the find and a yearslong preservation process, experts identified the material as a 1,600-year-old purple fabric woven with gold threads. Its purple dye, now faded to a red ...

While historians have long debated the holiday's origin story, evidence shows it predates the existence of commercial greeting cards by centuries.

“I can understand that it must be tough for the 1,700 families involved,” Mr. Legault told reporters at a news conference on Wednesday, focusing most of his remarks on the need for Quebecers ...

The 1,700-year-old tiles include images of the now-critically endangered Anatolian leopard biting the neck of an ostrich, a lion chasing a mountain goat, a bear pursuing a stag, and so much more.

Jan 22 (Reuters) - E-commerce giant Amazon.com (AMZN.O), opens new tab is exiting its operations in the Canadian province of Quebec, leading to the loss of about 1,700 full-time jobs, the company ...

Those lyrics, from the third verse of Samuel John Stone’s “Church’s One Foundation,” written in 1866 to rebut heresies about biblical inspiration then ripping through the Church of England ...

A care home resident has received more than 1,700 cards after an appeal was launched to help her celebrate her 103rd birthday. Mabel White, who lives at Watford House Care Home in New Mills ...