There are at least fourteen major operas that are based on Greek mythology, showing how much it still speaks to us today over ...

Construction began in 2023 to turn the shuttered T.J. Maxx on 450 Commercial St. NE into a Family Dollar/Dollar Tree, a discount variety store opened by parent company Dollar Tree.. For more than ...

Catherine de’ Medici (Radio Edit) You're Dead to Me Greg Jenner is joined in 16th-Century France by Dr Estelle Paranque and comedian Shaparak Khorsandi to learn all about controversial queen ...

Figure French Royal family tree from Hugues Capet (circa 939–96) to Louis-Philippe (circa 1830–48), the last reigning king ... Henry IV himself had gout and, after marrying Marie de Medici (a cousin ...

Florence’s 16th-century Vasari Corridor, the raised passageway that connects the city’s Uffizi Galleries to the former residence of the powerful Medici family, has reopened to the public after ...

The doomed Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of King Henry VIII, is perhaps one of the most pitiful spooky stories. Accused of cheating on her aged husband in 1541, she was locked in her room at ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 16th-century Tuscany, the ruling Medici family sometimes received diplomatic gifts of Chinese blue-and ...

French queen Marie de Medici bought the land from him in 1612 to begin construction on the gardens. Today, they exist as a spot of tranquillity in the French capital. With an Orangery, majestic ...