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In the palmistry tradition, the hand is considered “God’s Road Map.” Reading your own palm is like reading a book about yourself, and the story the hand tells us about our strengths, weaknesses, relationships and health can help us make the best choices to achieve happiness. It can reveal when there will be smooth sailing and when we must put...

In the palmistry tradition, the hand is considered “God’s Road Map.” Reading your own palm is like reading a book about yourself, and the story the hand tells us about our strengths, weaknesses, relationships and health can help us make the best choices to achieve happiness. It can reveal when there will be smooth sailing and when we must put...

Why did the Vikings sail west into waters unknown, to Iceland, Greenland, and North America, rather than concentrating on their lucrative raids in Western Europe, or their trade routes to Byzantium and beyond? A sense of adventure? A love of freedom? According to the medieval Icelandic sagas, a Viking woman came to the New World 500 years before Columbus....

T. S. Eliot famously—or perhaps notoriously—declared Vergil and his Aeneid to stand “at the centre of European civilization, in a position which no other poet can share or usurp.” For Eliot, writing after World War II, Vergil’s poem about the founding of Rome was a poetic rampart upon which European civilization might be re-built and reintegrated....