Ramadan, Arabic Ramaḍān, in Islam, the ninth month of the Muslim calendar and the holy month of fasting. It begins and ends with the appearance of the new moon.

Tokyo was originally a small fishing village named Edo, in what was formerly part of the old Musashi Province. Edo was first fortified by the Edo clan, in the late twelfth century. In 1457, Ōta Dōkan built Edo Castle. In 1590, Tokugawa Ieyasu was transferred from Mikawa Province (his lifelong base) to Kantō region.

Lady Gabriella Windsor’s royal wedding day has arrived! Gabriella, who is the daughter of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, is marrying Thomas Kingston today at Windsor Castle. The bride looked stunning as she arrived for the ceremony, wearing a gown by Luisa Beccaria with an elaborate veil. As Gabriella stepped out at the chapel, fans got the very first …

The 72nd annual Cannes Film Festival is currently taking place from 14 to 25 May 2019. Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu serves as jury president. American film director Jim Jarmusch’s ensemble zombie comedy film The Dead Don’t Die served as the opening film of the festival. The festival honoured French filmmaker Agnès Varda, who died in March 2019, featuring her …

A good night’s sleep is vital to keep you happy, healthy and focused the next day. But eating too late at night will have you tossing and turning. “Sometimes the food that you eat can interfere with your sleep,” warns Taub-Dix. Foods that contain caffeine—a few scoops of coffee ice cream, say, or dark chocolate—can make you feel more alert; …

Leather is a natural durable and flexible material created by tanning animal rawhides and skins. The most common raw material is cattle hide. It can be produced at manufacturing scales ranging from artisan to modern industrial scale.

Culture can be studied as an intermediary of miscellaneous fields of art. Cinema is an artistic area with an interactive relation with culture. It can either affect culture or be influenced by it.

At the height of his power in 1971, homeland’s Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi drew world leaders to a wind-swept luxury tent city, offering a lavish banquet of food flown in from Paris to celebrate 2,500 years of Persian monarchy in the ruins of Persepolis.

A prisoner locks a glass of honey in the prison workshop. In NRW, prisoners become active in the fight against bee mortality. Even tough boys learn to take responsibility in dealing with “Maja” and her friends. In the Remscheid prison they look after around 3 million bees, carpenter bee houses and sell honey.

he military of North Korea invaded the South on 25 June 1950, and swiftly overran most of the country. A United Nations force, led by the United States, intervened to defend the South, and rapidly advanced into North Korea. As they neared the border with China, Chinese forces intervened on behalf of North Korea, shifting the balance of the war …