Infections can change the trajectory of a life – and not always in for the worse. Patsy Cline, the celebrated country music ...

Likely originating in Germany around the 18th century, the classic children's rhyme "Ring Around the Rosie" first appeared in English in 1881 when Kate Greenaway included it in her book "Mother Goose ...

Scientists are reporting that they’ve discovered an ancestor of the Black Death in 4,000-year-old sheep remains. The ...

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Syracuse, N.Y. — Several Section III high school athletes have acquired cool nicknames that reflect the flash and style with which they play their sport or perhaps something unique about their ...

The Delhi High Court has ordered that status quo be maintained on the construction inside a 14th Century mosque, Kalan Masjid, situated at South Delhi's Hazrat Nizamuddin. Justice Mini Pushkarna ...

By April 1638 officially around 1,550 people, a fifth of the city’s population, had been consumed by the pestilence and buried in plague pits. In fact more died in an outbreak of bubonic plague ...

By April 1638 officially around 1,550 people, a fifth of the city’s population, had been consumed by the pestilence and buried in plague pits. In fact more died in an outbreak of bubonic plague which ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Extensive repairs have begun at a 14th-century church amid fears that its east window could collapse. St Catherine's Church in Ludham has ...

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