In 1809, with Napoleon and his best troops bogged down in Spain, Austria decided to try to get revenge for her humiliation at ...

Each year in November, the poppy appears on coats across the country. It's a symbol as old as any of us, but where did it ...

AD: Birth of Tiberius, second emperor of the Roman Empire 1272: Henry III dies aged 65. 1380: French King Charles ...

Jacob’s early scholarship focused on the Nibelungenlied; Schmiesing argues that his fascination with the epic poem stemmed ...

Research reveals that Britain’s earliest brass bands were established by military musicians returning from the Napoleonic Wars in the 1810s, debunking the idea that they were solely civilian and ...

Peter van Agtmael’s images of war and domestic strife are arresting and almost cinematically spare, but it is the careful ...

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Lyrically and thematically, Powerslave saw them travelling from ancient Egypt to the very end of the 20th century and ...

Americans support right to abortion more than any time in recent history. The pro-life movement won a historic victory at the US Supreme Court with Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ...