Starting at midnight on December 15, 2009, the Google logo was draped in a green flag. Perhaps you thought it was the Palestinian or the Saudi flag; perhaps this unsettled you enough to mouse it. If ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first Esperanto textbook was published on July 26, 1887, by its inventor L.L. Zamenhof Over 1,000 speakers of Esperanto have ...

The memory of Dr. Ludwig Zamenhof, the Jewish inventor of Esperanto, was commemorated at the 23rd. International Congress of Esperantists, which is now in session in Cracow. Over 1,000 delegates from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Esperanto teacher instructs a class in a room with a painting of the language's creator on the wall. Janek Skarzynski/AFP via ...

Leyzer (Eliezer) Levi Zamenhof was born in 1859 into a Jewish family in Belostok, a provincial city in the Russian Empire, now Bialystok, Poland. Roughly two-thirds of its inhabitants were Jews. Most ...

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Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter JRR Tolkien began writing ...

Esperanto creator L.L. Zamenhof. Staff Writer Over 1,000 speakers of Esperanto have been expected to gather this week at the 101st World Esperanto Congress in Slovakia to celebrate Tuesday as the ...

A meeting of the Soviet Republics’ Esperanto Union, held in Moscow in 1931 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons In the late 1800s, the city of Białystok—which was once Polish, then Prussian, then ...