An Aussie couple has revealed the major question they are grappling with that upends a traditional part of getting married. For centuries, when a man and a woman said 'I do', one would ditch their ...

As Fasano Hospitality Group is expanding globally, the fourth generation owner, Gero Fasano, talks Monocle through the ...

In a hillside cemetery in southern Italy, the bones of a small Bronze Age community have yielded a secret that their stone ...

It’s time to uncork the prosecco and maybe order a plate of tagliatelle al ragù for the table. Italy has a very tasty reason to celebrate: Its national cuisine has become the first entire gastronomic ...

Los Angeles’s temperate climate breeds the ideal environment for the flavors and cooking techniques of Italy, with breezy coasts for soaking in gently cooked seafood or hillside hideaways better for ...

Although the Vikings were only in Ireland for a relatively short period of time, they have left a considerable legacy on Irish surnames. There are plenty of examples of Viking-inspired surnames in ...

An online database of Irish surnames provides detailed explanations and backgrounds for almost all family names in Ireland. The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland provides ...

Could you be related to King Charles, Prince Harry and the rest of the British Royal Family? If you have one of the 35 last names identified in a new list from a United Kingdom-based genealogy website ...

Hear ye, hear ye! If you've ever felt that there's just a certain... regal energy to you, or that you'd have made a really good king or queen, or at least a decent noblewoman, it turns out there could ...

Barbara Rae-Venter, a 76-year-old patent attorney living in Marina, California, thought she'd spend her retirement leisurely playing tennis, traveling, and indulging in her favorite pastime: ...

Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveholders: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals. Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveholders: what the ...

FROM TIME to time, Charlemagne comes face to face with a pope. The first occasion was in the year 800 when Leo III placed a crown on his head and proclaimed him emperor of a reborn Roman Empire. More ...