When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

All perfect praise be to Allah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allah, and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger. Therefore, it is most appropriate to ...

Happy Lunar New Year! According to the Chinese lunisolar calendar, the new year began Saturday. For many, like our host Regina G. Barber, this... The science and shared history behind the Gregorian ...

How the days fly by! The calendar as we know it today may seem stodgy, but way back when it was a radical course correction. Giving a nod to the timetable that underlies its very existence, Google’s ...

Pope Gregory XIII, the 16th century pontiff responsible for what is today known as the Gregorian calendar, now has another, celestial claim to fame. A working group of the International Astronomical ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

February will be the "perfect" month – at least on paper, some are saying. With four seven-day weeks beginning on Sunday and ending on Saturday, February makes for a perfect rectangle on the standard ...

As an Israeli Jew,I am not one to celebrate the “Civil New Year,” also known in Israel as “Sylvester.” I do not observe it not because “Sylvester “is named after a fourth-century pope and a saint, who ...

For more than 500 years the most popular and influential book after The Bible was The Golden Legend by Jacobus de Varagine. At the end of the 13th century, Varagine was grappling with how medieval ...

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