The first Christmas Day message by a British monarch ... the King celebrated the power of the wireless to unite all the people of the Empire, and wished them a Happy Christmas.

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Despite this, Nero's persecution of the new Christian sect was brief and, in the first century at least, was not repeated in other parts of the empire. When asked by Pliny the Younger how to deal ...

Paganism is our designation for what ninety-something percent of the people in the Mediterranean were doing. Jews are a visible minority, and then, everybody is doing lots of other things.

Archaeologists in Turkey have just identified the site of Alexander the Great's first victory over the Persian Empire. This ...