No country currently has a flag which is a rectangle of a single, solid colour, but there are several historical example. Most recently,...

Many poems are famous for their opening lines - indeed, it is usual for poems not specifically given a name by the poet to be known by...

The national dish of Iceland is Hákarl, Greenland shark fermented and hung to dry for months, with a strong ammonia rich smell. Anthony...

The first Pope alphabetically is Adeodatus I, from 615-618, to whom is attributed the use of lead seals (bullae) on papua documents....

Founded as Byzantium in the 600s BCE, when Constantine I (the Great) moved the imperial Roman capital East he renamed it, briefly Nova...

In Greek myth. Panacea (Panakeia) was one of the daughters of Asclepius (Asklepios, Aesculapius), the god of medicine, and his wife...

The first European to ‘discover’ the cape was Portuguese mariner Bartolomeu Dias, who named it Cabo das Tormentas - the Cape of Storms....

A Caryatid is a column sculpted as a female figure, supporting the entablature on her head. The name comes from the Greek town of Karyai,...

The Eurasian hobby is a a small, swift bird of prey in the genus Falco (the falcons, kestrels, hobbies and merlin). Four species of hobby...