The Russian novelist, a compulsive gambler, lost everything in the opulent spa and gambling towns of Baden-Baden, Bad Homburg ...

Hiereiai (singular: hiereia) was the title of the female priesthood or priestesses in ancient Greece. According to the religious demands of ancient times, there were a number of different offices by ...

Have you heard of Guillaume Lethière? No? The proud child of Guadeloupe, the plantation slave’s son who rose to become ...

For as long as I can remember, there have been puritanically-minded historians who have said that we should stop writing ...

An exhibition outlines 19th-century artist Guillaume Lethière’s connection to his birthplace, mixed-race heritage, and the politics of revolution.

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The opera’s three-and-a-half-hour running time has been cut to an Ozempic-thin ninety minutes, and the exquisite Italian ...

AI Could Soon Need as Much Electricity as an Entire Country ( New York Times, October 2023): “By 2027, new AI servers sold ...

Two distinct and conflicting forms of nationalism – civic and ethnic – helped create the nation-states of Europe ...

Experience history like never before as A.I. reveals the appearances of some of the most significant historical figures.