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Instead, it presents a young Jesus who is volatile, impulsive, and possessed of a power so raw that it terrified everyone around him. What if our modern perception of Jesus is sanitized? By examining ...

Predating the Aztec Empire, the Merton College Library in Oxford has been in continuous use for more than seven centuries, ...

When you think of the Middle Ages, your mind probably jumps straight to a landscape of mud-caked peasants, unrelenting gloom, and a complete lack of scientific curiosity. This era is often unfairly ...

Known variously as perpetual stew, forever soup, hunter’s pot or master stock, this is a legendary dish. You take a pot, boil ...

“USA250: The Story of the World’s Greatest Economy” is a yearlong WSJ series examining America’s first 250 years. Read more about it from Editor in Chief Emma Tucker. Mistakes are in the DNA of the ...

From the first mothers to walk this earth to the Spice Girls’ girl power to female leaders around the globe, Beyoncé was right. When it comes to who runs the world, it’s girls. And while women haven’t ...

Jan Morris, a writer, became a fervent Welsh nationalist in her dotage. In one of her lesser-known works, she imagined an independent Wales in the mists of the 21st century. Its capital was ...

“USA250: The Story of the World’s Greatest Economy” is a yearlong WSJ series examining America’s first 250 years. Read more about it from Editor in Chief Emma Tucker. Ask any historian—or child, for ...

The ongoing case pertaining to Minister of Energy, Kumara Jayakody has become a key bone of contention for President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and his government with the public. The government has ...

As Sri Lanka approaches the seventh commemoration of the Easter Sunday attacks, the national mood is once again marked by grief, reflection, and an enduring sense of incompleteness. Nearly seven years ...