By Alison Habens In the beginning, there was just one, unnamed, muse. The blind bard Homer (a poet born around 850BC) invoked ...

in Ovid’s story of the god Apollo fashioning himself the first laurel wreath. This crown of leaves, which supposedly signified his genius, is seen in the myth of Daphne, who turned into a laurel ...

Written storytelling about the muses started in the matriarchal period of prehistory, shifting to patriarchy in approximately 3,000BC, in Ovid’s story of the god Apollo fashioning himself the first ...

There, Lafayette was given a crown — a wreath of fresh cypress, laurel and oak — in the style ... at an elaborate reception and dinner in the Apollo Room of the Raleigh Tavern, where furniture ...

Kennedy at his gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery during a wreath-laying ceremony. At the solemn event, four men had the honor of placing the wreath at the headstone: JFK’s grandson Jack ...

First Minister Michelle O’Neill will today lay a laurel wreath at Belfast City Hall as part of today’s Remembrance Sunday ...

The personal GMT-Master chronometer worn by NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell as lunar module pilot on the 1971 Apollo 14 mission sold for $2.2 million (or to be precise, $2,163,199) on Thursday (Oct ...

The chances that Federal Reserve officials will leave interest rates unchanged in November are mounting as the US economy powers ahead, according to Torsten Slok, chief economist at Apollo Management.

Ms O’Neill, who said her attendance is a demonstration of her determination to fulfil her pledge to be a “First Minister for all”, laid a laurel wreath at the Cenotaph in Belfast.