FOUNTAIN. The word fountain derives from the Latin fons, meaning "source." As physical phenomena serving as the material basis of hierophanies (appearances of the divine), fountains may be described as the flowing of pressurized water up...

A fountain is clearest at its source. (German) At a little fountain one drinks at one’s ease....

A traditional fountain is an arrangement where water issues from a source (Latin fons), fills a basin of some kind, and is drained away. Fountains may be wall fountains or free-standing. In fountains sheets of water may flow over varied surfaces of...

Middle School student Kyleray Katherman had a hunch something was amiss with the school's drinking fountain water. And right he was.For an English assignment, he tested the bacteria content at four water fountains and one toilet to challenge a ban on students from bringing bottled...

In this age of cell phones, text messages and computer keyboards, one Scottish school has returned to basics. It's teaching youngsters the neglected art of writing with a fountain pen.There is no clacking of keyboards in most classrooms at the Mary Erskine and Stewart's Melville...

The giant water fountain Frank Lloyd Wright designed here is no longer the unworkable dud it was for decades.Thanks to computers and extensive restoration, the "Water Dome" finally produces the three-story dome of water Wright envisioned 70 years ago as the centerpiece of his architectural...

Scat Daddy established himself as a top Kentucky Derby contender with Saturday's narrow victory in the Fountain of Youth Stakes.The 3-year-old colt closed with a rush to edge Stormello by a nose, capping a big day at Gulfstream Park for trainer Todd Pletcher. Earlier, Pletcher's...