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Several ancient Roman emperors loved Greece. As the Roman Empire consolidated, Greek culture, literature, politics, and art ...
Rome, with a population of around 75 million, had an average income equivalent to about 2.25 times the subsistence minimum — ...
President Donald Trump's Executive Orders and actions have generated significant attention. There's been extensive coverage of the President's: empow ...
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What Caused the Irish Famine?
A new book offers a comprehensive and heartbreaking account of the most terrible catastrophe to befall Ireland in the modern ...
The movie only recently started filming and is still more than a year away, but each little detail that leaks out from the ...
It’s too late for Hollywoke, which is collapsing. But great stories of the past are at hand, and need only rich patrons who ...
Gladiators were the rock stars of the Roman Empire. But what was gladiator combat like? How did the slaves of the arena fight and survive over centuries worth of matches? Gladiator combat was a ...
A lesson from second century Marcus Aurelius. He was one of Rome’s only five good emperors. He reigned at the peak of the Roman Empire’s power. He lived by stoic principles of wisdom and justice.
The world was just as intertwined 100 years ago, and its unraveling was a disaster. Can we avoid the same outcome?
Here are a dozen fun facts that you may not have known about the little book at the heart of the Passover Seder.
The holiday of Pesach, or Passover, falls on the Hebrew calendar dates of Nissan 15-22. Passover begins before sundown on Saturday, April 12, 2025, and ends after nightfall on April 20, 2025, ...