Many myths have formed around Houdini over the years. One story was popularized by director and actor Orson Welles. In audience with the tsar in Russia, Welles recounted, Houdini made the bells of ...

Annie, a young schoolteacher struggling to solve the brutal murder of her father, unwittingly summons the "Candyman" to New Orleans, where she learns the secret of his power, and discovers the ...

Adam Zamoyski sets himself a different task: to peel back the layers of myth that have formed around the emperor and reveal the man beneath. He succeeds impressively in this remarkable book.

This idea – that we must put in more effort to perfect a good night’s sleep – is a myth that Van de Laar is keen to dispel. “If you ask a person who sleeps well, ‘How do you sleep well?’ ...

Some are convinced it’s the legendary Leviathan– an ancient creature from myth– while others are skeptical, brushing it off as another internet hoax. But as enticing as the idea of ...

With heightened tensions between Europe and the United States over NATO and Ukraine, the myth of an F-35 “kill switch”, which would supposedly allow the Pentagon to disable foreign-operated F ...

Immortal Pillars is a great addition to Age of Mythology: Retold, finally giving the Chinese pantheon its due. New units and God Powers radically shake things up on the battlefield, and while the ...

Myth makes rivulets from where history has been dammed. The word “anger” is derived from an old Germanic word angaz that means a distressing narrowness, a squeezed, aching grip. Nussbaum theorises ...

The writer is associate professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University. Yajnadevam, aka Bharath Rao, is a rare cryptographer – among epigraphists, archaeologists, linguists etc – who ...

“Circe Offering the Cup to Odysseus,” by John William Waterhouse, 1891. Circe was among one of the most famous femme fatales in Greek mythology. Credit: Public Domain There are many strong and ...

A former chief of staff of the Defence Forces has told Prime Time that "neutrality as a statement in a globalised world is a myth." Retired Vice Admiral Mark Mellett also said Russia’s ...

The Candyman is back! 2814 days after piloting Hyperactive to victory for Gokhan Terzi at the same venue on 22 June 2017, 57 year old former SA Champion jockey Andrew Fortune broke the ice in his ...