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Pope Francis had a special connection with homeless people. Once during an extremely cold period, six homeless people died of ...
Something tells me US president Donald Trump would love to be a Roman emperor. The mythology of unrestrained power with ...
The life of the Roman emperor Gera is, in some ways, a tragic tale of brotherly rivalry and parental miscalculation. He was ...
He studied at RADA, then appeared in ‘Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger,’ the original ‘Shogun,’ a ‘Jane Eyre’ miniseries and ...
The 1st century BC marked the last days of the Roman Republic and creation of the province of Lusitania as part of the ...
Nothing intimates the slow unravelling of the Roman empire quite like Jean-Paul ... and Ovid — a Rome shaped by Augustus Caesar. If Honorius marked the empire’s decline, Augustus announced ...
Julius Caesar established ... proclaim Rome's glory. The Via Julia Augusta, as the highway was initially called, greatly improved overland travel in the empire. Roman legions could shuttle long ...
Lisbon is one of the oldest European cities. Founded by the Phoenicians, Lisbon was also home to the Romans, the Alans, and ...
In some ways he’s a pastiche of several Roman leaders. Of course, Julius Caesar was never an emperor. He was a military leader and politician when the Roman Republic was in its death throes.
When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.
It’s striking to compare the radical departure in Jesus Christ’s message from the kingdom of domination, intimidation and ...
Most "richest people" lists are dominated by men. To counteract that, Stacker celebrated the richest women in America, using ...