At first glance, it looks like someone enjoyed taking the spaces out of a sentence; in reality, it's a single word by ...

Language has a remarkable way of capturing complex human attitudes and emotions in a single word. Misanthrope is one such ...

Meaning ‘Christmas’ refers to an annual festival celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed on December 25. It represents joy, hope, generosity, love, and togetherness. O ...

A Christian empire that inherited classical learning, Byzantium preserved pagan texts via schools, new script, scholia, and ...

In the whole Hebrew Bible the full appellation ‘El Shaddai’ is used only in connection with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Shaddai by itself also appears 31 times in the ancient book of Prophet Job, who ...

69. Cullen — An Irish surname meaning "holly tree," this name gained popularity as a given name thanks to the family of ...

To mark International Migrants Day on December 18, DW visited the site of the Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, which was ...

In modern English, myrrh survives almost entirely as a symbolic word. It appears in religious narratives, historical accounts ...

The Greek word for "excellence" was mistranslated into Latin as "manliness," and eventually became our word "virtue." ...

The easiest pangram of 2025 was flapping, found by 99 percent of players. The hardest pangram was philhellenic, which means ...

Jesus’ birthplace, the three (or not) wise men, Jingle Bells, the meaning of Boxing Day, and Mrs. Claus’ first name.

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.