Drimachus led a slave revolt on Chios, ruling a rogue stronghold before betrayal. Organized resistance like that of Spartacus ...

In 1972, Aretha Franklin performed “Mary, Don’t You Weep” with a gospel choir at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles. “We’re going to review the story of two sisters called Mary ...

As a town founded in 1815, Saugus is rich in history, home to America’s first barber shop, the Saugus Iron Works, and a key figure in the purchase of Alaska. The United States purchased Alaska from ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt and the Sorbonne will fund a new program to digitize Delacroix’s papers and identify other artists who ...

Schinderhannes is a nickname for Johannes Bückler, a criminal who was born sometime in 1779 in Germany, to a family of ...

In 37 A.D., the Roman Senate annuls Tiberius’ will and proclaimed Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, aka Caligula (Little Boots), emperor.

AD: Caligula (Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus) becomes emperor of Rome. 1496: Birth of Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII.

While the “frivolous East” may have been happy to venerate men as though they were gods, the serious men of the Roman ...

Where do you eat when you’re a pillager of planets named Galactus, the Devourer of Worlds? Anywhere you please! Galactus is an ultra-heavyweight Marvel Comics supervillain who will be properly ...

An inscription found at the site reads: To Athena Polias and to the Emperor Caesar Augustus Nerva Traianus Germanicus as well as to the city of Athens, the priest of the Muses of philosophers, T.

The Domus Aurea, or Golden House, was the sprawling palace of the Roman emperor Nero. Archaeologists recently uncovered a chunk of Egyptian blue ingot, an example of the opulence of the palace itself.