A flower is beautiful, and that above all is why we love them. But often, and in many places, a flower is also much more — it’s a food, a lucrative export, a symbol. There’s a reason whyroyal circle club, throughout history, different people in diff

Celeste Caeirowinzir, who on April 25, 1974, handed out red carnations to soldiers on their way to ending a 40-year right-wing dictatorship in Portugal, a spontaneous patriotic act that gave a largely bloodless coup its name, the Carnation Revolutio

Azaleas, a more compact member of the rhododendron family, grow throughout the Japanese archipelago. The shrub, with its often fuzzy evergreen leaves and funnel-shaped flowers, is a fixture of private gardens, shrines and national parks. In spring,

LAN SAK, Thailand: Weeping parents laid flowers and toys on the coffins of 20 children killed in a Thai school bus inferno, along with three teachers, as five days of funeral prayers began on Thursday (Oct 3). Family members dressed in black gathere