But it was the Romans who developed a working model of checks and balances. The constitution of the Roman republic was ...

An English woman in the small village of Whiteparish had been using this slab as a stepping stone in her garden for almost a ...

In Autun, France, archaeologists discovered a 1,600-year-old fabric woven with gold threads in an ancient burial site. The fabric, once a symbol of elite aristocracy, was found in a lead coffin, along ...

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While these clocks once served an important practical function for sailors, aristocrats, and weather enthusiasts, they are ...

An aspiring dictator, fueled by popular resentment, overthrows a failing republic. We've seen this show before ...

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Is it possible to see into the future Many believe that a man named Michel de Nostradamus could His predictions of the future have mystified scholars for over four hundred years Nostradamus made over ...

If the French Revolution, which took place from 1789 to 1799, had not occurred, the course of history would have been ...

The New Hollywood movement introduced audiences to more than a few memorable filmmakers, from hard-boiled crime directors ...

The Medici family was a powerful and influential dynasty that dominated the political, economic, and cultural life of Florence and much of Italy from the 15th to the 18th century. Known for their ...

Occasionally a book is published, perhaps twice in a generation, which is so bad but internationally celebrated that one ...