A run-through of personal favourite Eureka moments from the last year which featured on these pages ...

Our modern calendar is the Gregorian calendar, named for Pope Gregory XIII, who reformed it in 1582 to correct some errors in ...

January 3 has occasionally brought a delightfully strange headline out of Germany: unsold Christmas trees being fed to elephants at the Berlin Zoo. While it may sound like a whimsical publicity stunt, ...

Should you take down your Christmas tree today? Here's why it's good luck to do so, and more about Epiphany, Three Kings and ...

Pope Leo XIV has baptized 20 babies in the Sistine Chapel, continuing an annual tradition marking the end of the Christmas ...

I held an impossibly tiny pendant in my hand, the face as small as my thumbnail. Within the silver bezel was an entire mosaic ...

Everyone has their own beloved traditions — especially when it comes to the holidays. While some start to decorate their tree and sing Christmas carols on Nov. 1, others wait […] ...

To understand how New Year traditions came into existence – especially in the British Isles – is to explore a complex historic tapestry that is woven from ancient rites, calendrical reforms, and a ...

Wealthy Americans are standing in the way of things they don’t like, from pickle ball courts to offshore wind farms.

Yennayer, also known as Id Yennayer or Id Suggas (meaning “night of the year”), is the first month of the indigenous Berber (Amazigh) calendar, marking the Amazigh New Year. The very name “Yennayer” ...