(CNN) — If you’ve ever “flipped the bird,” you have something in common with ancient Greeks. It was around 2,500 years ago that the naughty Greeks developed a phallic gesture to offend, taunt and ...

British neurologist John Hughlings Jackson once said that the first man who insulted another person instead of "knocking out [their] brains without a word" actually laid the groundwork for ...

No one knows whether Plato ever flipped anyone the bird — but he might have. People have been raising their middle finger to indicate something other than “Does this cuticle need trimming?” since the ...

Pope Francis stirred up a bird’s nest on social media with a tweet, now deleted and replaced, extolling the virtues of “the middle finger” as being a reminder about honesty. The Pope‘s viral tweet was ...

From triggering tattletales on the schoolyard playground to confronting oppressive and deadly institutions, the middle finger is a built-in feature of resistance and self-advocacy. Since 1995, artist ...

The fate of Woody Creek's famous finger - the barn roof painting of a hand with outstretched middle finger that flicks off thousands of motorists a day - is uncertain after the property's longtime ...