John Mitchel was born on November 3 1815 at Camnish, near Dungiven. He was the eldest surviving son of John Mitchel Snr, the ...

The largest statues in the world rise from the ground or pedestals like mythical giants. They are truly remarkable feats, combining artistic ability with unthinkable engineering marvels that capture ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideologies. But, in reality, ancient works of art were colorful and even ...

Profile of the statue of Aphrodite of Milos (Venus de Milo) at the Louvre Museum. Credit: Bradley Weber / Flickr CC BY 2.0 She embodies the universal concepts of beauty, sexual love, and fertility, ...

The mid-1800s saw a wave of people leaving Ireland — due to the potato famine and resultant political unrest — to relocate in places such as the US and Australia, bolstering the ...

The statue, located outside of Faneuil Hall ... was erected to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Irish potato famine, which brought many Irish refugees to Boston between 1845 and 1849. “It ...

The statue, located outside of Faneuil Hall ... was erected to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Irish potato famine, which brought many Irish refugees to Boston between 1845 and 1849.

Its effect on the potato gives “Rot,” a vigorous and engaging new study of the Irish famine by the historian Padraic X. Scanlan, its title. The blight began to infect the crop across much of ...

There are a good 10 famine areas where that has been declared, where people have no food, where people are dying of hunger. Out of the 10, we only have access to four. So six we, at this point in ...

Aid halt endangers Gaza civilians, UN agency warns Israeli measures affect Gaza's water and power supply 'No electricity, no water, no life,' says resident Red Cross says all aid supplies in Gaza ...