We are again celebrating the birth of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Sure, Christmas is the most celebrated day in the ...
Hanukkah starts on Christmas Day this year. How often does that occur? Explaining the rare Chrismukkah convergence and other ...
Passover is a celebration of the story of Exodus. During Passover, Jews remember how their ancestors left slavery behind them when they were led out of Egypt by Moses. Passover is celebrated with ...
Jews around the world are marking the start of Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, which celebrates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in the second century B.C. after it was defiled ...
(History columnist Jeff Suess is on a special assignment. Please enjoy a story from the vault. This article originally appeared Dec. 8, 2013, and has been updated.) Back 236 years ago, on Dec. 28 ...
When was the first Rose Bowl game? Which team has the most appearances? Take a look back at the history of the Granddaddy of Them All.
From Babylonian kings to 21st-century gym memberships, the tradition of starting fresh on January 1 has ancient roots—and ...
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For example, Jesus dies on a different day in John's gospel than in Matthew, Mark and Luke.... Whereas in the three synoptic gospels Jesus actually eats a passover meal before he dies, in John's ...
5:30 a.m. – If you were a subscriber of The Spokesman-Review, the top headlines in the morning paper on Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, were the German attack on Moscow and President Franklin Delano ...
The collapse of Bashar Assad's rule over Syria marks the culmination of a nearly 14-year rebellion and a key moment in a civil war that killed hundreds of thousands of people, displaced half the ...