Audrey Hepburn takes a break from filming Breakfast at Tiffany's — still wearing a multi-string pearl and diamond necklace.

Charm, romance, seduction… the oleander (Nerium oleander) or desert rose has long been featured in myth. In the language ...

Nikos Papadopoulos, a member of parliament for the Greek far-right party Niki (Victory ... works “distort and desecrate the most sacred symbols of our Orthodox Christian tradition.” ...

Here are some of the best things to do this weekend in San Diego from Friday, April 4 to Sunday, April 6.

In his masterwork, Gibbon took as his starting point Rome at the height of its glory, in the second century A.D., when the Capitoline Hill was a symbol of the city’s eternal power and the Temple ...

[The English phrases 'of one being' and 'one in being' translate the Greek word homoousios ... God is eternal blessedness, undying life, unfading light. God is love: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

1214 This sacrament is called Baptism , after the central rite by which it is carried out: to baptize (Greek baptizein ) means ... the water of the sea is a symbol of death and so can represent ...

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa emphasized that Christ's resurrection was not just a celebration of life conquering death, ...

But what about the fancy Greek symbols? It turns out they may be little more than window dressing. Looking more closely at the formula above, note that the "m" is shorthand for imports and the "x ...

You'd be wrong to think the ancient Greek gods bled red like you and me, as ichor was the substance that defined their ...

Perdikes, the embroidered Easter eggs of Western Macedonia, are an egg-decorating tradition that turns Easter eggs into ...