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Explore Ghent’s Medieval Charm on a Belgian Boat Tour

Discover Ghent, Belgium’s third-largest city and capital of East Flanders. Built where the Scheldt and Leie rivers meet, it ...
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Carcassonne Fortress – A Medieval Gem in the Heart of France

Ancient stone towers and golden rooftops glow under the sunset, revealing the timeless charm of Carcassonne’s perfectly ...

Why do we have bunions? Blame an evolutionary toe failure.

For millennia, people have suffered from bunions, a painful condition that’s uniquely human. Here’s why—and how to ease the ...

Medieval skin disease leaving patients’ flesh ‘crawling’ surges through the UK

A mum has described the horror at hearing she had contracted a medieval skin disease that’s surging in the UK. Amanda Rushton ...

Women folk healers were branded as witches, but their treatments may have been medically sound

Was there any scientific basis to potions, lotions and salves that folk healers prescribed, or was it all just hocus pocus?

France's strangest epidemic wasn't the bubonic plague. It was a dance.

Mass hysteria? Ergot poisoning? Or just despair? Here’s why what started as one woman’s dance spiraled into one of history’s ...

RECIPES: Pot pie, meatballs, gnocchi get French onion treatment with caramelized onions and Gruyère

As much as we love French onion soup -- and we really do love it -- we might love the following riffs even more.

Genet’s classic The Maids is reduced to Snapchat and screeching

Director of the moment Kip Williams now gives Jean Genet’s 1947 play The Maids his hi-tech treatment. This slippery ...

Why honey bees overthrow their queen

A once-powerful monarch, weakened by illness, is overthrown by her previously loyal subjects. But in honey bee colonies, such ...

Nature walks are good for you, but can a city stroll be just as good?

Walking in nature has been shown to boost physical and mental health, lowering stress and restoring attention. But researchers are finding plenty of mental-health benefits to walking in urban areas, ...

Letters to the Editor: Dealing with lymphedema isn't just painful — it's expensive

A reader calls the 2024 Lymphedema Treatment Act 'wonderful, but still the costs add up and don't go away — and neither does ...

It's the beginning of the end for Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 as it reveals release date for third and final DLC

KCD2's last hurrah is almost here, as Warhorse unveils new details and a launch date for Mysteria Ecclesiae, the RPG's final ...