The Wizard Gandalf from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings was inspired by Merlin from Arthurian legend and Odin from ...

A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the daughter of the operetta singer Anna Bergen ...

Rob Tregenza’s latest film, set in a German-occupied Norwegian village, follows a housekeeper dispatched to spy on a priest.

Demand for nonalcoholic beer is booming, but despite all of the discussion about the “low-to-no” alcohol movement, the “low” ...

Nicholas’s character was his fate, argues Hasegawa, and it was the fundamental absence of a higher purpose at its heart, ...

A once luxurious Villa built in 1898, the Gutshaus Rosengarten was turned into an orphanage after WWII. Shut down in 1995, neglect and arson turned it into an abandoned ruin.

In 1989 legendary Japanese studio Toei launched their V-Cinema line of direct-to-video genre features. V-Cinema Essentials: ...

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With views of Germany on one side of the mountain and Austria on the other, the Berghof was the most public of Hitler’s private homes, and it exerted a powerful hold on the Nazi imagination of empire.

The author looks at the defining features and similarities of work by Hieronymus Bosch, Max Beckmann and William Kentridge ...

Welcome to the Technicolor dreamcoat of antique stores! This vibrant red barn isn’t just eye-catching; it’s a siren call to ...