Since its establishment under the Russian empire, Lukiškės Prison has transformed from a bleak place of torture and murder to ...

Behind all the supercomputers, machine learning, and exotic materials used to create modern speed are the basic symbols and equations ... start sliding in the first place. Executive Editor Mike ...

Hecker’s work points back to Stéphane Mallarmé’s 1876 poem L’Après-midi d’un faune—and its subsequent musical and ...

The indiscipline plaguing these institutions reflects the broader societal challenges of corruption, inequality, and moral ...

A combination of cultural traditions and complex engineering allowed the Petronas Towers in Malaysia to become a model for ...

Symbols have a way of being rendered hollow ... Right near the High Court, or “Palace of Justice”, this was to be the place where citizens could come to vocalise their problems, not to any higher ...

They gathered to fight for freedom and liberty, he said, and the tree became a beacon of hope and a symbol of American freedom. “This is Schuylkill County’s own Liberty Tree,” Barton declared.

“The Olympic symbol consists of five interlaced rings of equal dimensions (the Olympic rings), used alone, in one or in five different colours. When used in its five-colour version, these colours ...

It’s where the couple raised their three kids and became empty nesters, grandparents and then great-grandparents. “It was ...

The moon is a well-known symbol of Our Lady. Two meanings especially have been popular. In comparison with Christ, who is called sol invictus, Mary is the moon who receives grace and glory from Christ ...

One would be hard pressed to find a better example of a highly evocative national symbol than the Virgin of Guadalupe of Mexico ... If that sacred event guaranteed a rightful place to the Indians in ...

As Hindus in the D.C. area and worldwide celebrate the five-day holiday Diwali, they want to bring back their sacred symbol: the swastika. Niti Srivastava, executive director of the Indian ...