Dinners and Diatribes” is a slightly dramatic biweekly column dedicated to the art of facing your foodie fears. For more food ...

Robert Eggers' The Lighthouse stars Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe as two lighthouse keepers with dark pasts. But what led ...

Birds symbolize death, innocence, resilience, and wisdom in literature, enhancing themes and leaving a lasting impression on ...

The expression comes from the famous scene in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” in which the eponymous seafarer shoots and kills an albatross—a sign of good luck or providence ...

Deipnosophistae is a work by Athenaeus, written around 200 CE, about well-read people philosophizing at the dinner table and enjoying good food and drink. The title is a combination of two words: ...

As a result, while Rosenblum's tour of oliviana contains its share of Homeric elements, the literary figure this book brings to mind most strongly is Coleridge's albatross-fixated ancient mariner.

I’m a Coast Guard veteran. Later this month RADM Christopher Bartz will transfer the honor and mantle of the Ancient Albatross to RADM Carola List. She will be the Coast Guard Aviator who has ...

Apr. 2, 2025 — Jurassic dinosaurs milled about ancient Scottish lagoons, leaving up to 131 footprints at a newly discovered stomping ground on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, according to a new ...

An ancient Middle Eastern civilization that developed an early alphabet spread its culture far and wide — but not its DNA, finds a 23 April Nature study 1 of hundreds of ancient human genomes.