“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...

Few directors have a visual style as distinctive as Tim Burton. The director has been building Gothically surreal and whimsically macabre worlds for decades.

“All was mystery, dark, impenetrable mystery, and every circumstance increased it. In Egypt the colossal skeletons of ...

Emlen Urban's mother. On the right is a leaded-glass transom design with a stylized Vitruvian wave or scroll. The building was designed by Urban. This circa-1890 building in the 200 block of South ...

A new study finds that the disturbance-demanding plant species oak, hazel and yew were abundant in Europe's forests before modern humans arrived, strengthening the argument that ancient vegetation was ...

There might not be a new book, movie, or television series to tie in with but that doesn't mean the magic has gone on ...

But data are not confirming the popular hypothesis that invisible dark matter ... Einstein's Equations Collide With the Mysteries of the Universe Nov. 11, 2024 — Why is the expansion of our ...

The pastry chefs wanted to create a cake that represented their region more than anything else, so they drew inspiration from ...

Chris Wood continued his red-hot scoring form with a second-half double that sent Nottingham Forest fifth in the Premier League after a 3-1 win at East Midlands rivals Leicester. Wood has netted ...

A hunky snowman comes to life in this Netflix holiday rom-com that strikes a certain muscle tone. By Amy Nicholson The boy band stories in Tamra Davis’s documentary rarely intersect in a way ...