France's smallest towns caught between history and house numbers Until recently, French towns with fewer than 2,000 residents – the majority in the country – didn't have to name their streets ...

On a recent trip to France, my mission was to eat like a French woman - or at least to find out just how they stay so slim. This is a country where on one corner, you find a boulangerie with mouth ...

Known as the Directory, it is widely considered one of the most corrupt governments in French history. And with neither effective legal safeguards on the Directory’s authority nor consequences ...

Early in the French colonial era, buildings were erected with flat, clean façades. “Austere” is the word Tulane University geographer Richard Campanella used to describe them in a 2018 piece ...

As I peruse the shelves in the Jackson County Library’s “new releases” section, it is evident to me that there are more new titles written by women than by men. And while this may be true in literary ...

The 21st century pharmaceutical and biotech sector has come a long way from its roots in 19th century pharmacy. pharmaphorum looks at its evolution over the centuries. The roots of the ...

The Smithsonian Institution was established with funds from James Smithson (1765–1829), a British scientist who left his estate to the United States to found “at Washington, under the name of the ...

To that end, let’s look at the history of cell phones. We’ll go through the evolution one decade at a time — from the first-ever wireless network to the proliferation of mobile apps ...

The 1800s saw the Pound Sterling to US Dollar (GBPUSD) exchange rate by and large maintain a rate of around $5 to every £1 with the notable deviations from the rate seen to be aligned with ...

The history of HIV in the U.S. spans more than four decades. In 1981, reports of strange illnesses began emerging in New York and California. Previously healthy young gay men were suddenly ...

It is actually far easier to watch this first-rate “Masterpiece” mystery than to map it out: Like its predecessor, 2022’s “Magpie Murders,” this adaptation of Anthony Horowitz’s second ...

Here’s a look at the timeline of the case over the decades ... CNN’s Taylor Romine and Lisa Respers France contributed to this report.