Cleopatra ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.

“You cannot pause a plane in midflight and expect that everything is going to be O.K.,” Gawande says. “That’s what they were trying to do with lifesaving health and humanitarian assistance ...

Julius Caesar was no more. Caesar’s assassination was a desperate attempt to restore the Republic; instead, it plunged Rome into another civil war, with the victor, Caesar’s adopted son and he ...