Each winter, thousands of people descend on the tiny village of Meisenthal, France, a little more than an hour’s drive from ...

Many families that do the Christmas pickle claim that it’s a German tradition ... began in the United States in the late 19th century when ornament salesmen devised the story to sell ornaments ...

Caiti Grove rounds up all the best things to do, see and eat in Frankfurt at Christmas ... 19th-century rooms. staedelmuseum.de Nearby, the Museum of Applied Art showcases ultra-contemporary ...

A 19th Century heritage padlock, discovered by friend of Squire Locks Nick Fothergill To do this, it’s believed that Lord Braye combined the padlock with a chain to prevent the vehicle from ...

But valuable lessons lie in a more distant chapter: the rise and eventual breakdown of the Concert of Europe. This early 19th-century security system, devised after the Napoleonic Wars, preserved ...

The middle value of all realized prices for an artist's works sold at auction during a given period, providing a clearer representation of typical market values by minimizing the influence of extreme ...

Many rural Irish Catholics in the mid-19th century had little opportunity for advancement and only knew one reality—growing potatoes on tiny plots of land for consumption and resale. By the ...

There weren't any laws against abortion in the U.S. until the 19th century—and as those laws grew more restrictive, many women sought abortions in secret. Surgeon George T. Strother, shown at ...

(MENAFN) Namibia will never forget the atrocities committed by German colonial forces in the early 20th century, President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah said on Wednesday during the country’s first ...

"Using modern genealogy testing to identify bone fragments from the 19th century is a powerful reminder of our unwavering commitment to resolving cases no matter how old," Patrick Callahan ...

The 19th Century time ball, restored at a cost of £500,000, is to be dropped again daily from next month. Getty Images The ball, pictured before its restoration, in a lowered position at the top ...

My research specialisms are linguistic developments in 18th- and 19th-century German on the one hand, and the vernacularisation of late medieval documentary legal texts on the other. With regard to ...