- February 6, 2025
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Bronze Age Sword Found in Danish Bog Leads to Hoard
- By KentuckyDigitalNews.com
- . February 6, 2025
A Bronze Age sword, ritually bent before being deposited as an offering, has been unearthed in Værebro Ådal by a metal detectorist on his first

Thanksgiving Evolved From Fasting and Prayer to Feasting and Mourning
- By KentuckyDigitalNews.com
- . February 3, 2025
Thanksgiving observances predate the feast of the year 1621 shared by the Wampanoag Indians and the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. Several myths have

Following Threads to Colonial Barbados
- By KentuckyDigitalNews.com
- . January 31, 2025
Samplers, pieces of embroidery made to practise or demonstrate needlework stitches, were an important part of girls’ education for centuries. In Britain, girls stitched samplers

Otto the Great’s Tribute to His Late English Queen Finally Makes Sense
- By KentuckyDigitalNews.com
- . January 28, 2025
A historical document composed by King Otto I, better known as Otto the Great, to his English queen has been re-examined and re-dated by a

Who to Blame for Early Modern Climate Change?
- By KentuckyDigitalNews.com
- . January 25, 2025
The sky in the northern hemisphere had been darkened, the winters unusually harsh, and the summers barely arriving for decades when the German Lutheran author

How the Thanksgiving Food Favorites Won Their Place at the Table
- By KentuckyDigitalNews.com
- . January 22, 2025
Thanksgiving, celebrated annually in the United States, is a time-honored tradition marked by a feast that brings together family and friends. It is in essence

Graffiti Was a Powerful Form of Protest in Ancient Rome – as Gladiator II Shows
- By KentuckyDigitalNews.com
- . January 19, 2025
Claire Holleran/The Conversation Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II features a scene in which a senator, seated at a pavement cafe in Rome, reads a printed newspaper.

What Counts as a Planet?
- By KentuckyDigitalNews.com
- . January 16, 2025
When, in 1816, John Keats began reading an Elizabethan translation of Homer, he became so enthralled that he stayed up all night. By morning, he

The Rebecca Riots: Why Did Wales Rise Up?
- By KentuckyDigitalNews.com
- . January 13, 2025
A sustained campaign of attacks blazed across the Welsh counties of Carmarthenshire, Cardiganshire, and Pembrokeshire from 1839. Tenant-farmers and labourers, infuriated by increased charges on

Hopes, Fears, and Early Modern Astrology
- By KentuckyDigitalNews.com
- . January 10, 2025
Appearing in 1482, the Libro de la ventura – or Book of Fortune – became a staple of Renaissance parties. A bestseller across Europe, this