a 19th century German strongman once described as “the finest specimen of manhood.” He didn’t invent weight training, but he was the first to turn bodybuilding into a global celebrity brand.

At last! After two years of disruption, with shuttered galleries and dispiriting queues, the National Gallery is reopening in ...

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Scaling buildings might sound reckless — but it could also be the ultimate mindful movement. Our fitness director took on ...

Mud Sun, a 16ft-wide mural by the British artist Richard Long Credit: Andrew Bruce Next door, in William Wilkins’s neoclassical 19th-century building ... the age of the strongman, perhaps?

In The War at the End of the World, a novelized account of a pious peasant uprising in 19th-century Brazil ... and impotent Dominican "anti-communist" strongman Rafael Trujillo, and the petty ...

As European governments prevaricate or remain silent in the face of mass starvation in Gaza, NGOs like the Freedom Flotilla ...

Pope Francis filled the role of an authoritative progressive voice in international politics, able to speak up effectively against the rise of strongman ... since the 19th century to Greece.

In the 19th century, Christian socialist thinkers ... or that plebeians were falling for strongman populism and lining up behind Latin American–like strongman caudillos. Rather, Senator Church ...

The opera house in Kharkiv was almost destroyed and an undetonated Russian rocket can still be found on its roof. But after a long interruption, the ensemble is once again staging productions - in the ...

The Daley Machine, like Tammany Hall in New York and the federal spoils system that dominated national politics through much of the 19th Century ... everyone except the strongman and his circle.