On the Roman religious calendar, the month of April (Aprilis) was in general dedicated to deities who were female or...
Europe
Many do not know that there was a time when almost every rural British family who kept bees followed a...
A black sand beach littered with huge chunks of glistening ice is today one of the most visited attractions in...
Easter Monday is the day after Easter Sunday and is a public holiday in some countries. But why we observe...
Every Easter, children in several part of our planet rush around their homes and gardens searching for chocolate eggs and,...
We are in the Rusovce borough, part of Bratislava, capital of Slovakia. Surrounded by crumbling walls and Rusovsky Park, a...
Known simply as "La maison dans la Loire" (literally the House in the Loire), the three-storey building looks like the...
A UK company has sparked some controversy online for selling glass bottles filled literally with the "freshest coastal air" for...
As story goes today, 25th March 2021, Venice turns 1600 years old. But Venice, was it really founded on March...
The county of Norfolk, England, is home of the world’s greatest concentration of medieval churches, with over 650 scattered in...
Bacchus was a Roman agricultural god who was associated with the harvest, particularly that of grapevines. The son of Jupiter...
In ancient Roman religion, the Mamuralia or Sacrum Mamurio ("Rite for Mamurius") was a festival held on this day, March...
Edinburgh is a very pictoresque city that offers visitors and tourists several nice locales to take a picture. One such...
Bilkyrkogården Kyrkö Mosse near Ryd in Småland is an unusual but charming attraction. The swampy forest is literally an old...
In ancient Roman religion, the Salii were the "leaping priests" (from the verb saliō "leap, jump") of Mars supposed to...
We are in the Gunibsky district of Dagestan, Russia, where lies Mount Gamsutlmeer. At an altitude of roughly 1,400 meters...
March 5 was the date of an annual, ancient Roman, nautical religious festival called Navigium Isidis, literally “Vessel of Isis”,...
In Ireland and Wales, the annual Feast of Rhiannon is celebrated by some still today in honor of the Celtic/Welsh...
Leshy, literally He-of-the-forest is a tutelary deity of the forests in Slavic mythology. He was depicted a tall, elderly man...
Of Norse origin, Ceadda was a deity connected to sacred, healing and underground waters and therefore also to springs and...
March, spring month par excellence, marked the beginning of the Roman year, which did not end in winter, like ours....
Juraj Jánošík, the outlaw who supposedly robbed the rich and gave to the poor (a deed often attributed to the...
February 28 - Some important events on this day 202 BC 👉🏼 Coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu...
February 27 - Some important events on this day 1693 👉🏼 1st women's magazine "Ladies' Mercury" published in London, England...
The Anthesteria, in Ancient Greek Ἀνθεστήρια, was one of the four Athenian festivals in honor of Dionysus, "dead and reborn"....
During the Middle Ages, many monks manually copied ancient books so they could be passed on to future generations. Over...
February 26 - Some important events on this day 1616 👉🏼 Roman Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo demanding he abandon...
According to a Russian legend, hidden beneath the waters of Lake Svetloyar, in the Nizhny Novgorod Region north-east of Moscow,...
February 25 - Some important events on this day 1570 👉🏼 Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England for...
Black Shuck, Old Shuck, Old Shock or simply Shuck is the name given to a ghostly black dog which is...
