"I don't think they should glorify me. I am just a peasant woman. I don't understand why I've become a celebrity." The woman who has become known as Babushka Z - "grandmother" in Russian ...

Throughout history, nicknames have been used to highlight characteristics, achievements, or roles that define a person. These ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A social media clip of a 2014 video of actor Bill Murray talking about a painting that he said saved his ...

A new book, Remembering Peasants, takes a close look at Europe’s vanished peasantry. Mixing history, personal memoir, and ...

Their version of “Cinderella” or “Rapunzel” could be disturbing. But turning Germany into a unified nation, they believed, ...

In a nation of farmers, the Philippines is now importing more rice than any other, heaping poverty and debt on struggling ...

Known as the “Paper Queen”, Zhang Yin began her career collecting scrap paper and rose to become China’s richest person in 2006, the first woman to ... his career as a peasant worker and ...

He dreamed of becoming an icon painter, but became famous for his vivid images of peasant women and portraits of Lenin and Trotsky. The life of Philip Malyavin is similar to his paintings – just ...

That affected a total of 115,012 farmers across the region, with 40,661 of them being women farmers, predominately peasant ...

40.6 x 30.5 cm. (16 x 12 in.) ...

It is fitting that Samhain, now transformed into Halloween, should still be celebrated with pumpkins and ghosts in modern America, bearing echoes of harvests past and a historic reminder that the ...

The Korean historical epic Uprising features lots of swordplay and an ambitious script co-written by Park Chan-wook.