Some 16 years earlier, in 218 B.C., Hannibal had brought his army, including his war elephants, across the Alps and had won several battles in Italy, even while Scipio, the younger of the two ...

Unlike the previous two wars, which involved much maneuvering and pitched battles (the Second Punic War saw the Carthaginian general Hannibal crossing the Alps) the third was mostly a siege of ...

how did Hannibal cross the Alps? This is no ordinary question. It has been around, with no obvious answer, for the last 2,000 years. Hannibal was a Carthaginian general who decided to invade the Roman ...

Winter landscapes have been a feature of art for hundreds of years—and while many focus on landscape alone, there are also some that allude to the historical context of their times, or portray ...

It's no surprise that there are so many The Far Side comics starring kangaroos - an animal with a built-in pocket that travels mostly by hopping is a concept tailormade to spark Gary Larson's ...

We present to you this collection of poems honoring the Virgin Mary written by Thomas Merton ... It is a hundred years since your shy feet Ventured to stand upon the pasture grass of the high Alps, ...

Hannibal Lecter is one of the most terrifying serial killers to hit the big screen. The fictional character was created by Thomas Harris and is featured throughout a series of novels--though most ...

By Aaron Couch Film Editor The Crossed movie has marked its director. Filmmaker Rob Jabbaz will helm a feature based on the comic book taking place in a pandemic-stricken world, in which those who ...

Aside from the Wii U, there's been a new mainline Animal Crossing game on every Nintendo console since the GameCube's release in 2001. It stands to reason, then, that the newly announced Nintendo ...