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Revered for its special effects, Jason and the Argonauts is still revered as a fantasy classic that went on to inspire ...

The 1,800-year-old Ketton mosaic discovered at England's Rutland villa features a rare retelling of the Trojan War myth not ...

Elves appear across Germanic and Scandinavian literature. The name seems to derive from the old Norse word “alfr” and the old ...

Troll 2 is the latest movie to feature one of the most fascinating monsters from Norse mythology or the legends of Nordic ...

When someone describes a dog to you as just "brown," that only gives you a very vague idea of what that dog might actually ...

Knowing just a bit about palm reading, and more specifically, about the anatomy of the five fingers on each of your hands, ...