Stories tagged "symbolism"

Americans are woefully out of touch with the fact that the American bison, or buffalo, is in trouble as a wild, iconic species, but they do love them as an important symbol of their country -- and as an entree on the dinner table. These sentiments were fo

Beyond the symbolism of Barack Obama?s victory, the reality of power in Washington changed more profoundly than meets the eye.

David Campbell is bringing Florida’s mandate to teach evolution to many students raised to take the biblical creation story as fact.

There are fourteen of us, half trained primarily as New Testament scholars and half as Old Testament ones. Because the current translations are set for the foreseeable future, the committee’s current role is fairly modest—collecting, weighing and deci

Symbolism in Dreams and Meditation: An open umbrella/parasol represents something hidden. Claude Monet Lady with a Parasol.

Aleksandr Blok was a Russian poet and dramatist, the principal representative of Russian Symbolism.

But to the chagrin of Rome romantics everywhere, scientists have now proved that the Lupa Capitolina, the life-size bronze of a wolf with two human infants suckling her, on view in the city's Capitoline Museum, dates not from the time of togas and chariot

Flowers are considered to be the most astonishing things the nature can offer the humankind.

Lotus flowers are very beautiful and have a great symbolic importance in many Eastern religions.

They don't call it the Clinton News Network for nothing. Check out the drab colors and lighting of the Clintonpostles as compared to She-Jesus at an event broadcast this morning. All that's missing are tongues of flame. Clever work, CNN and Team Hillary