The real stories behind how all the U.S. states got their names What’s in a state name? Place names can tell you a lot about ...

Built in 1798, the court in Oxford is the second oldest in the country, behind only the one in Hampton Court Palace, where ...

NOVEMBER 30- marks the four hundredth anniversary of the birth of Sir Henry Savile, the founder of the Saviliar professorships of geometry and astronomy at Oxford, the first of such chairs founded in ...

A hugely successful composer of bel canto opera, Gaetano Donizetti had a lasting impact, with many of his operas entering ...