(PhysOrg.com) -- The Palazzo Medici, one of most significant landmarks of the Italian Renaissance, has always been something of a touchstone — it was completed in 1460 for the wealthy Medici family and later served as the model for Florence's more orna

Julie Pasqual, a master storyteller, performed for the children at the Kearny Public Library on Friday, Oct. 3 at 4 p.m. She told the children two folktales using her brilliant voice and dancing movements in order to make the stories come to life.

MADRID, June 18, 2008 (AFP) - Bulgarian-born French philosopher Tzvetan Todorov was on Wednesday awarded Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias Prize for Social Sciences, the jury announced.

Tuesday, June 17 will for a very long time remain evergreen in the memory of the villagers of Opokuma, in Kolokuma local government area of Bayelsa State.

Given the nearly total absence of fanfare, you could be excused for not knowing that this was the quincentenary of Andrea Palladio's birth. Generally it is a kind of condescension to treat the great cultural figures of the past as though, in some sense,