The date of Easter changes annually due to the lunar cycle and the varying date of the spring equinox. Here's when Easter ...

From the beginning of time to the origins of life, our "when" special series tackles the timing of crucial events and the ...

Why is Black History Month in February? The commemoration of important Black Americans and events happens largely during the shortest month of the year.

Each February, people across Canada participate in Black History Month events and celebrations that honour the legacy and contributions of Black people in Canada and their communities. The 2025 theme ...

Through numerous profiles and anecdote-filled chapters, the co-authors of ‘Net Flicks: India’s Smashing Affair with the ...

Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today ...

The origins of Presidents Day lie in salutes to George Washington's Feb. 22 birthday, some highly ceremonial and others strikingly unusual.

Here's everything you should know about the history of the beloved holiday of love ... but the poet is also thought to be the source of our modern ideas about Valentine's Day, according to the New ...

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated ...

One has to wonder, however, why our celebration ... history. At some unknown point in time ancient humans began keeping track of days gone by. This of course evolved into the calendar which ...

Thank the Romans for that oddity. Before the Gregorian calendar used today, Roman King Numa Pompilius (715-673 BC) set about creating a way to sync the months with the lunar cycle. Doing that ...