The attempt of the Pythagoreans to reshape society in Croton, Magna Graecia, through politics led to public backlash and persecution.

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April 22, Earth Day is celebrated once again as over one billion people help the Earth recover from the ravages of ...

He was a source of inspiration for many artists, even those who have nothing to do with religion, because he was a ...

Mykola Bychok is the youngest cardinal in the Catholic Church and the only one with a link to Australia. He will join the ...

President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine are among the world leaders who plan to attend the funeral. The ...

Sofi Oksanen draws on her family’s history of Soviet colonisation and reports of the war in Ukraine to argue Russia uses ...

In 1959, a new kind of club opened in Dallas. It was called The Rubaiyat. It served coffee. And, despite what Austin will ...

For its autumn/winter 2025 presentation in Paris, Spanish house Loewe eschewed a traditional runway show for a static display ...

Have you ever seen a bunch of coins on a headstone and wondered why they were there? They weren’t placed there by ...

CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) has finalized an agreement to transfer ownership of its ancient "Statue of a Man" to Libya. Officials from the CMA and the Libyan government held a ...