In Augustus the Strong: A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco, Tim Blanning restores the ‘incorrigible Saxon’ to ...

By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern hemisphere ... of Alexander as the “First European.

While this is the time of year for fun prop bets, gameday meals and Super Bowl squares, it is also the time to research Roman numerals. Every NFL game during the regular season is referred to by the ...

It is the birthplace of luxury. Together, we will create India’s first global luxury brand,” says 51-year-old fashion designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee, who celebrated the 25 th anniversary of ...

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In the best restaurants along the Bosphorus strait Roman Abramovich’s high dining is setting tongues wagging as much as it once did in London. “I love Abramovich so much,” enthuses Omer ...

In the best restaurants along the Bosphorus strait Roman Abramovich’s high dining is setting tongues wagging as much as it once did in London. “I love Abramovich so much,” enthuses Omer Ataysin, an ...

In Trump’s newly hatched vision of empire, America stands poised to expand ... “The Panama Canal treaties put us on the map.” For Ronald Reagan, however, the treaties were merely a campaign ...

How naïve we were in the mid-1950s. We saw Mao Tse-tung and his colleagues standing on the great Tien An Men Gate reviewing the masses and wrote of the comradeship of those who had endured the Long ...

as he reigned just two years from 392 to 394 A.D. Eugenius was emperor of the Western Roman Empire but was installed by a military officer following the mysterious hanging of his predecessor ...

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