A Human History of the Mediterranean; By Davide Abulafia; Oxford University Press; 816 pp., $68.00 If you read the better class of these ocean books, you might soon find yourself convinced of the ...

That means that the cat lived during the Abbasid Caliphate, the dynasty that ousted the previous Umayyads to rule over large swaths of the Islamic Empire ... her journalism MA from L'École ...

At 1,123 feet, the Enterprise is only about 300 feet shorter than the Empire State Building ... to sail home from a deployment in the Persian Gulf. When news of the September 11th terrorist ...

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The Edicts of Ashoka were collected from the cold regions of Afghanistan, which is evident enough to prove the zenith of the Mauryan Empire under the grandson of ... under the Abbasid Caliph Al-Ma'mun ...

BOSTON ― More than four months after different versions of a multibillion-dollar economic development bond bill were passed by both branches of the Massachusetts Legislature and sent to ...

THIS MORNING. MATT. GOOD MORNING, ANTOINETTE AND DOUG. GOOD MORNING. SOME MAJOR CHANGES COMING TO MASSACHUSETTS NOW THAT VOTERS ARE PROJECTED TO APPROVE THREE OUT OF THE FIVE BALLOT MEASURES.

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts voters approved giving union rights to drivers for ride-hailing companies such as Uber and Lyft but rejected a measure to legalize some psychedelics. The issues were ...

BOSTON (AP) — Teachers in two Massachusetts school districts went on strike Friday over pay, paid parental leave and other issues. Teachers in Beverly and Gloucester voted Thursday to authorize ...