AL-ANON —A support group for friends and family of alcoholics and addicts meeting at 7 p.m. every Wednesday in the basement of Lebanon United Methodist Church in Elk Creek, Virginia. For more ...

SMYTH COUNTY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL HEALTHTRUST ANNUAL GALA TO SUPPORT SCHOLARSHIPS—Marion, Va. The Smyth County Community Hospital HealthTrust is excited to announce its 12th annual HealthTrust Gala, set ...

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

First, these essays embody a diligent critique of modernity's anthropocentrism that tends to elevate humans above all other ...

Amethyst . A member of the quartz family, amethysts with intense, rich purple shades have long been considered the most ...

Learning was never so fun. Plus I didn’t ‘have to get scurvy. Of late, here are the titles on my reading pile: The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman and the Race to ...

He saw action in 1914 in Mesopotamia as well as in East Africa. Hingston received the Military Cross for gallantry in action and kept meticulous diaries chronicling the horrors of which he was ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the Mazargues War Cemetery in France's Marseille tomorrow. The cemetery contains a ...

Babel, whose original derivation from the Hebrew name for Babylon dates even further back to Akkadian—an extinct East Semitic language spoken in ancient Mesopotamia—refers to the Akkadian name ...

The Prime Minister has been a staunch proponent of giving due respect to soldiers, especially those whose sacrifices may have ...

This is the twelvth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...

Since humans discovered the power and capability that comes with numbers, we have lived in societies that enable us to … ...