In the earliest days of urban development in the United States, we named streets most often after landmarks like a church or a market, canal or a wall. Later topographical features like hill were used ...

Bless your child with these Bible-inspired names.

In "A Dictionary Of First Names," Patrick Hanks, a lexicographer, onomastician, and corpus linguist, and a team of authors have identified the origin and meaning of more than 6,000 first names. We ...

Enter Pope Francis. The first Jesuit pope. The first from Latin America. It is, indeed, a historic moment for the papacy. Those who waited for a leader from the new Catholic world will no doubt be ...

I came across an old mail containing some interesting details on how some of the famous companies got their names. I cannot vouch for the authenticity of these details, but they do look very much ...