Friday 15 November |

Art & Culture

POPE JOHN PAUL II,SKIING

Zelda Caldwell

7 Surprising facts about the skiing pope, John Paul II

Sacra di San Michele

Alvaro Real

The Sacra di San Michele damaged by fire

PAPE FRANÇOIS ET LA VIERGE MARIE SALUS POPULI ROMANI

Zelda Caldwell

Pope Francis’ favorite picture of the Virgin Mary gets a face-lift

LARRY ARNN

John Burger

Know your Constitution? Free online course can help

BUBONIC PLAGUE

John Burger

Scientists discover who really caused the plague — and it wasn’t the rats.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

J-P Mauro

Shakespeare’s personal documents added to UNESCO heritage list

SENOR MISTERIOSO,GLOW IN THE DARK,FIGURE

Daniel Esparza

Mystery solved: “Señor Misterioso” is in fact a Venezuelan “saint”

TALL EL HAMMAM,JORDAN,SODOM,GOMORRAH,

J-P Mauro

Is this the site where Sodom once stood?

BEER,MONKS

Daniel Esparza

3 Things you didn’t know about monastic beer

ICE SWIMMING

Zelda Caldwell

Ice swimming: Russia’s bracing celebration of Epiphany

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band perform at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival

J-P Mauro

Listen to Springsteen sing to Mary of Bethany

T S ELIOT

J-P Mauro

Rare recording of T.S. Eliot reading his famous ‘Four Quartets’

GEOGUESSR

Zelda Caldwell

GeoGuesser, the addictive mapping game based on Google Street View

WWI SOLDIERS

John Burger

World War I ended 100 years ago. But do you know why it began?

SIERVAS,NUNS

Daniel Esparza

“There is no reason for scandal if you see a nun on the drums or the electric guitar,” the sisters of Siervas say

DARYL PETERS,DIARY

J-P Mauro

Lost diaries of WWI Canadian soldier unearthed

ART,HISTORY,EVASARI

John Burger

Here’s a new way to visualize art history

DOLORES O'RIORDAN

J-P Mauro

When the Cranberries’ Dolores O’Riordan sang ‘Ave Maria’ with Pavarotti

ARCHAEOLOGY,PICNIC,HAND AX

Zelda Caldwell

500,000-year-old “picnic site” in Israel surprises archaeologists

BLACKBEARD

J-P Mauro

New evidence reveals Blackbeard’s taste in reading material

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