Pomegranates. Credit: Joergens.mi/Wikimedia commons/CC BY-SA 3.0 Smashing a pomegranate on New Year’s Day is an ancient Greek custom that continues to this day as the red-colored, nutritious fruit is ...

together with William Oughtred's “Trigonometria” of 1657. Beman inquires whether this symbol for geometric ratio has a still earlier date.

However, the latest tit-for-tat has evoked comparisons with what transpired between Pakistan and Iran in January when the two countries bombed each other’s border areas. Manzar Zaidi ...

The Queen of Christmas released her yuletide classic in 1994 and has been making millions from it since Terence Patrick/CBS via Getty When Mariah Carey released her 1994 song "All I Want for ...