One explanation is the increasingly popular Red Queen hypothesis, referring to the huffy chess piece in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. In Looking Glass Land, the Queen tells Alice ...

To its right is Temple XIII, is the resting place of the Red Queen. Palenque’s most notable ruin is the Temple of the Inscriptions, a 90-foot-high pyramid containing some of the most detailed ...

The palace is called the Domus Aurea, or Golden House, erected by and for Nero. When the 30-year-old emperor’s crazed world exploded in A.D. 68, and he ordered a subject to drive a knife through ...

Sensitive and handsome, Nero (37 – 68 AD / reigned 54 – 68 AD) started out well as emperor. But his early promise gave way to wild extravagance and murder. His rule ended as violently as it ...

As the former beauty queen walked along the side of the dark road to her parents’ house, the unthinkable happened. Five men in a car pulled up and forced her inside a stolen vehicle, according ...

The iconic Australian drag queen said she 'caused chaos' on the yellow ... Known for her elaborate outfits and striking red carpet appearances, Mutesi's would-be moment was unfortunately upstaged ...

In May, SonLam Nguyen won the Red Bull Dance Your Style National Final in Atlanta. As he prepares for the World Final, the dancer shares his secret to a winning mindset—powered by an unshakable ...

The Roman emperor Nero is known as one of history’s most brutal and eccentric leaders. He is said to have killed his mother, stepbrother and wives, persecuted Christians and squandered a fortune ...

First, a confession: I wasn’t even alive when Queen played Live Aid. I was born three years later in 1988, three years before Mercury died of bronchial pneumonia resulting from AIDS. My first ...

We would like to nominate the nero d’avola red grape to represent this island state as standard bearer. Originally from Greece, nero d’avola is sometimes called calabrese. It produces wines ...

Cavolo nero can be used as a substitute in all recipes that require cabbage but it is particularly good in soups. The classic Tuscan soup, ribolitta, is traditionally left to sit for a day before ...