April 22 (UPI) --A pair of villages in Leicestershire, England, faced off in an unusual local sport known as "bottle kicking." The annual Hallaton Bottle Kicking event took place Easter Monday and ...

English Jack told tales, trained bears and created puzzling walking sticks, and remains a Crawford Notch legend ...

Tom Hardy is a crooked cop looking to make amends in Gareth Evans’s action-packed film. By Robert Daniels Based on a video game, this movie is done in by mediocre monsters and muddled time loops ...

Likely originating in Germany around the 18th century, the classic children's rhyme "Ring Around the Rosie" first appeared in English in 1881 when Kate Greenaway included it in her book "Mother Goose ...

How did the Soviet Union impose its communist ideology on central and eastern Europe after the Second World War? From 1945 until the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, citizens of central and ...

Trump’s illusory, self serving rhetoric is as fanciful as children’s fairy tales except children tales have a moral ... which overnight grew to the heavens. This 1734 English fairy tale continues with ...

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Like many in America, Todd Martens grew up with parents who devoted the bulk of their vacation time to Disney’s theme parks. He now understands them as places to make sense of the world rather ...