In the late 18th century, wax artist Marie Tussaud launched a somewhat unusual career in Paris.As a forced show of her loyalty to the French Revolution, she was ordered to create death masks of ...

The United States is “united” in name only. The blue/red state political divide masks a much deeper cultural divide that exists within states, within cities, within suburbs, though less within rural ...

The index alone is a bibliophile’s dream. Literature professor Wilson has done a remarkable job recreating the story of the ...

Israel and Iran have exchanged more strikes while new diplomatic efforts appeared to be underway a week into the war.

Iran, a country that is about 75 times larger than Israel in land area, which has declared its intent to annihilate Israel, fires a direct salvo of over 300 drones and missiles, and those missiles ...

On library shelves the multi-volumed biographies by Nicolay and Hay, Sandburg, and Randall and Current stand cover to cover with *Lincoln Never Smoked a Cigarette* and *Abraham Lincoln on the Coming ...

But Death Mask is a solo electronic affair and probably his least approachable album, although a logical extension of his last album, the icily electronic Transmission, nine years ago. Fearless says ...

The ninth of November, 1799—the 18th of Brumaire in the calendar of the French Revolution—is often remembered as the day the Revolution ended. Napoleon Bonaparte, conqueror of Italy and ...

PARIS -- A French middle school employee was stabbed to death by a 15-year-old student during a bag check Tuesday at their school east of Paris, the national gendarme service said. The student was ...