Nostalgia is a killer. The term, originally coined in the late seventeenth century, described an illness that came in ...

Disbelieving the young peasant girl, he sent her home ... An even more significant milestone in the history of Japanese knives came in the 19th Century, when the Meiji Restoration of 1868 brought ...

Pope John reached the papacy from simple, peasant beginnings and his tolerance and disregard ... in the history of Japanese knives came in the 19th Century, when the Meiji Restoration of 1868 brought ...

For now, they aren’t overly concerned. Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co. said on Monday that paper losses on its domestic bond holdings increased more than eightfold to about ¥1.386 trillion ($9. ...

Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance said paper losses on its domestic bond holdings increased more than eightfold to about ¥1.386 trillion ($9.7 billion) at the end of March, compared with ¥161.4 ...

Intellectual history often focuses on prominent political figures and their ideas and conceptions, overshadowing alternative discourses. In South Asia, particularly, the intellectual narratives of ...

Oysters and escargot are recognized as luxury foods around the world—but they were once valued by the lower classes as cheap sources of protein. Less adventurous eaters today see snails as a ...

Garritt C. Van Dyk has received funding from the Getty Research Institute. University of Waikato provides funding as a member of The Conversation NZ. University of Waikato provides funding as a ...

In Russia, surnames appeared comparatively recently: in the upper classes, in the 16th century; and among peasants, after serfdom was abolished, in the late 19th century. Typical Russian family ...

Meiji Holding Co Ltd, the Japanese confectioner and dairy products maker, will put two plants into operation in Tianjin and Guangzhou by 2023 to sell locally produced dairy products such as ...

Edel Assanti to present Vienna-based artist Simon Lehner’s first UK solo exhibition, Of Peasants & Basterds. Working across sculpture, painting and installation, Simon Lehner’s practice interrogates ...