Ever wondered why Romania speaks a Romance language while being surrounded by Slavic nations? Turns out, languages like Dalmatian used to bridge the gap, as did Mozarabic in the Iberian Peninsula; ...

Ask him how it all began, and he remembers the ice. It was a bitter morning in January, 1982, when Bernard Cathomas, aged thirty-six, carefully picked his way up a slippery, sloping Zurich street. His ...