Ancient Greeks saw Olympus as a divine realm of Zeus and the gods, not a mountain. Its link to Mount Olympus emerged in later traditions.

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Twenty elementary and intermediate school students in the Westfield Public Schools received recognition for their submissions ...

Marianne Faithfull, the wild woman of London's Swinging '60s who survived drug addiction, homelessness, two comas, cancer and ...

Gianni Rodari used puns, topsy-turvyism and zany names to invent stories for children and help children invent their own.

A gesture associated with the Nazis has a surprising history. But in Germany, there was little doubt about its meaning.

Archaeologists working on the site of an old convent’s garden in Dijon, France, have discovered a strange group of Gallic graves and a children’s necropolis dating back over 2,000 years.

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Musk aggressively thumped his open palm onto his upper chest and—to the shock of millions of viewers around the Western world—delivered a Roman, or fascist, salute.