The book 'Cats,' forthcoming from Phaidon, surveys felines in a wide range of art forms throughout the millennia.

Ikea's Swedish meatballs are a signature of its food court, but a new item on the menu also holds cultural significance in ...

This will be my music from now on.” That is how Charles XII of Sweden referred to the thunder of the cannons he heard during ...

Over 70,000 people died as a result of this bomb. I know I'd be the guy asking everyone to move 10 feet to the left so we can sit on the grass instead. No one on board died. However, a woman at a ...

On the sixth of February, 1829, the irregular troops beating their way north to join the divisions under command of López, already prey to harassment by Lavalle, made a halt at a hacienda, whose name ...

Charles Jean-Pierre laid out the painting of Bilal Coulibaly, a kaleidoscope of colors creating a mosaic of a dunk from the Washington Wizards player’s rookie year. Jean-Pierre, a D.C.-area painter, ...

The poor have always been with us, as the Bible says. In 10th century England, wealthy donors or religious orders endowed houses for the poor, the sickly, the widow, the orphan. These were called bede ...

The Chairman of H-E-B has been collecting art for decades. For the first time ever, North Texans can see dozens of selected works at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. American Modernism from the ...

In 1721, stubborn Charles XII of Sweden gave up hope of beating Russia’s huge black-haired Peter the Great, signed the Peace of Nystad. Among lands ceded to Russia at that time, was flat marshy Dagö ...

Canadian forward Charles Hudon, 31, has signed a two-year contract with Djurgården IF, the Stockholm-based SHL club announced on Wednesday. “I’m very excited to go out on the ice and meet all the ...

Emanuel Swedenborg was a physicist; in 1716 King Charles XII of Sweden appointed him assessor-extraordinary to the Royal Board of Mines. He was also perhaps the most versatile genius-of-all-trades ...