One of the nicest restaurants in the late 1950s and early ’60s was the Chanticleer. It was located a little north of Salisbury on Highway 29, and I seem to remember it often being said by many that it ...

This column highlights the performances of maidens who have made no more than five starts and who either sold for more than $500,000 at public auction, have siblings that are grade/group winners, or ...

The historian Barbara Tuchman called the “calamitous” 14th century a “distant mirror” of our own times. Its predecessor, the 13th century, seems not to offer the same possibility for contemporary ...

I recently spent ten days in Belgium and the Netherlands, visiting Amsterdam, Antwerp, Louvain (Leuven) and Bruges. My purpose for being there was an academic conference in Louvain. Each of the cities ...

- (Roman Catholic Church) a member of a lay sisterhood (one of several founded in the Netherlands in the 12th and 13th centuries); though not taking religious vows the sisters followed an austere life ...