Alphonse Pierre’s Off the Dome column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, scenes, snippets, movies, Meek Mill tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that catches his attention. This week, Lawrence ...

A recent study by Dr. Alar Läänelaid and his colleagues has provided new insights into the creation of the oldest dated ...

"Filibuster" was originally used to describe an unauthorized military adventurer, specifically "an American engaged in fomenting insurrections in Latin America in the mid-19th century," according to ...

specifically "an American engaged in fomenting insurrections in Latin America in the mid-19th century," according to Merriam-Webster. It comes directly from the Spanish word "filibustero," which ...

Whatever its earliest meaning might have been, carol was borrowed into English from French in the early Middle Ages and can probably be traced back to an ancient Latin or Greek word for a flute ...