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The hot water- sacred spring at Aquae Sulis, now Bath. The goddess Sulis Minerva was seen as the embodiment of the sacred water in the Roman era (1st- early 5th century CE).

Lower Chinook Chief from Warm Spring Reservation (1886), illustration published in Deutscher Kinderfreund. Nr. 7, Hamburg April 1886, edited by C. Ninck.

The sacred spring dedicated to Saint Sunniva on Selja Island, Norway, which supposedly has healing qualities.

An 1888 oil on canvas, First Spring Flowers, by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) the French post-impressionist painter. Back in France after his visit to the Caribbean, the artist has returned to a more impressionist palette...

The sacred spring of the Celtic god Glan at the Celtic-Greek-Roman site of Glanum, France. The well, first built in the 7th century BCE, continued to be visited by visitors seeking healing well into Roman times.

American Sgt. Jasper raises the South Carolina flag over the Spring Hill redoubt during the assault on Savannah, 9 October 1779. Moments later, the British defenders of the redoubt opened...

Persephone-Kore was an agricultural deity as the goddess of spring, vegetation, and of grain, but she was also the Queen of the underworld and wife of Hades and, to the Romans, she was known...

Old Woman's Water and the Buffalo Cap is a Cheyenne tale of the two great culture heroes Standing-on-the-Ground and Sweet Medicine and how they brought back the buffalo to the people and established the tradition...

Keeping good time proved an elusive objective for centuries, and it was only in the second half of the 17th century, during the Scientific Revolution (1500-1700), that clocks were made which lost seconds rather...

Bath, the famous spa town in Somerset England, has attracted people from near and far for centuries to its healing springs and baths. Today the city is known for its beautiful Georgian...