Artemisia Gentileschi, born in Rome in 1593, was one of the first women to be a leading painter. That, along with the twentieth-century revival of appreciation for the Italian Baroque, helps to ...

Much attention has been paid recently to the life of the Italian Baroque master, Artemisia Gentileschi—specifically, her rape, her torture with thumb screws while testifying during the trial of ...

Set off from the city by a high wall, it was the recently completed tomb of King Mausolus and his sister-queen, Artemisia II. Compared to everything else around it, the tomb was immense.

Although some essential oils are “generally recognized as safe” for use in food, people should never consume them neat. They should always check the safety of a specific essential oil before ...

A pure culture of the blushing rosette fungus (Abortiporus biennis) growing in Dr. Matt Kasson’s lab at West Virginia University. Similar to bleeding tooth fungus, the blushing rosette produces ...

In the 17th century Oenothera biennis L AKA evening primrose was known as the “cure all” and people ate the whole plant, including the roots. Today it’s still used to support wellbeing and ...

Lydia Merrett does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

If you lived in China a thousand years ago and had a fever, inflammation, or malaria, a tea made from a flowering plant called Artemisia annua might have been your treatment. You may know it ...

and the pretty herb known as evening primrose (oenothera biennis). Many of the above are prolific self-seeders, so enthusiastically sprinkling their progeny about the place that some would class ...