Wednesday 12 March |

Saint Luigi Orione

Art & Culture

BUBONIC PLAGUE

John Burger

Scientists discover who really caused the plague — and it wasn’t the rats.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

J-P Mauro

Shakespeare’s personal documents added to UNESCO heritage list

SENOR MISTERIOSO,GLOW IN THE DARK,FIGURE

Daniel Esparza

Mystery solved: “Señor Misterioso” is in fact a Venezuelan “saint”

TALL EL HAMMAM,JORDAN,SODOM,GOMORRAH,

J-P Mauro

Is this the site where Sodom once stood?

BEER,MONKS

Daniel Esparza

3 Things you didn’t know about monastic beer

ICE SWIMMING

Zelda Caldwell

Ice swimming: Russia’s bracing celebration of Epiphany

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band perform at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival

J-P Mauro

Listen to Springsteen sing to Mary of Bethany

T S ELIOT

J-P Mauro

Rare recording of T.S. Eliot reading his famous ‘Four Quartets’

GEOGUESSR

Zelda Caldwell

GeoGuesser, the addictive mapping game based on Google Street View

WWI SOLDIERS

John Burger

World War I ended 100 years ago. But do you know why it began?

SIERVAS,NUNS

Daniel Esparza

“There is no reason for scandal if you see a nun on the drums or the electric guitar,” the sisters of Siervas say

DARYL PETERS,DIARY

J-P Mauro

Lost diaries of WWI Canadian soldier unearthed

ART,HISTORY,EVASARI

John Burger

Here’s a new way to visualize art history

DOLORES O'RIORDAN

J-P Mauro

When the Cranberries’ Dolores O’Riordan sang ‘Ave Maria’ with Pavarotti

ARCHAEOLOGY,PICNIC,HAND AX

Zelda Caldwell

500,000-year-old “picnic site” in Israel surprises archaeologists

BLACKBEARD

J-P Mauro

New evidence reveals Blackbeard’s taste in reading material

POPE FRANCIS LAUGHING

Daniel Esparza

You know the one about the Franciscan, the Carmelite, and the Jesuit on retreat?

VISIGOTH CHANT

J-P Mauro

Recovering a lost art: Visigothic chant re-emerges

TOMB OF CHRIST

Zelda Caldwell

Take a virtual reality tour of the tomb of Christ

MAN USING HIS COMPUTER

Zelda Caldwell

The top online college programs, ranked by U.S. News and World Report

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