Eduard Bloch was born January 30th, 1872 in Frauenburg - a small village in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic - to a Jewish family who were described as being comfortable, but not ...

Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV for the first time. 1349: 900 Jews are burned alive ...

Real Madrid and Vinicius Junior have opened negotiations over a new contract for the Brazilian forward, and despite his ...

Researchers have uncovered the origins and genetic diversity of the Fulani, one of Africa's largest pastoral populations. The ...

A loose adaptation of the Aeschylus’ trilogy in a contemporary modern take by British playwright Robert Icke, a monumental, ...

From glow-in-the-dark rosary beads to St. Christopher dashboard statues and Pope Francis bobbleheads, a tribute to the complicated life of Catholic kitsch ...

The internationally-acclaimed artist discusses why red threads, old objects, and a life between two countries are essential ...

Queen of Peace Hospital in New Prague will merge with Mayo Clinic Health System on July 1. The hospital and affiliated clinics in New Prague, Belle Plaine, Le Sueur and Montgomery will be renamed ...

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated ...

Hayden VanderVoort stood up from the mat and ran into his corner, delivering a hand-stinger of a low-five, before shaking the hands of the coaches from St. Francis. He celebrated with his coaches, ...

The brutal tumult of the 20th century turned Eastern Europe, once a melting pot, into a bloc of relatively homogeneous nation ...

Journalist Robert Veverka ran a magazine about drugs, and was sentenced in a case of "gross censorship." He won't give up, he ...