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Quiz of the week 1) Name the silk-producing ...

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

Settling a dispute with swords, pistols and, if legend is to be believed, sausages and guitars, has long been a matter of honour even among modern-day rock stars, discovers John F. Müller

Few objects in the long history of the Catholic church stir the imagination quite like the fabled sedia stercoraria. With a name that roughly translates as ‘dung chair’, the myth of the so-called papa

Held in a deconsecrated chapel in the heart of Edinburgh, Lyon & Turnbull’s ‘Design Since 1860’ auction always offers a cornucopia of Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts and Aesthetic Movement delights. At t

Stablecoins – principally tether and circle – are digital tokens run on public blockchains (digital ledgers) whose value is determined not by supply and demand, as with bitcoin, but are backed by a sp