The author of literary classics such as Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades, Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837), is ...

At around the same time Ella, the most beautiful of the Hesse princesses, fell in love with Grand Duke Serge, brother of the Russian emperor Alexander III. Queen Victoria, who thought all Russians ...

Russia plans to start mass production of the new Iskander-1000 missile system, which may alter the balance of power in the ...

Being able to casually mention you are related to a royal is a dinner party conversation showstopper that most people would love to have.

Democracies are vulnerable political systems. Democratic governments have frequently given way to authoritarian regimes, and ...

Either Bishop de Sully or Pope Alexander III laid the cornerstone - no one is sure. But we know it was in this cathedral that the great leader Napoleon was made emperor in 1804. In 1909 ...

The Reformation split the Church into Catholic and Protestant factions, creating two roads to salvation - both of which claimed to be true. So it was very important to people that the Scottish state ...

Many of the oldest inhabited cities in Greece are still standing against all odds. They have survived to this day to tell the ...

Bodh Gaya (or Buddha Gaya as it is called in Sri Lanka), is the place where the Buddha attained Enlightenment. It was a major ...

This is largely due to the fact that Octavian Augustus, the first Roman emperor, ordered that all images of the ... royal families who held dominion over the now fragmented parts of Alexander the ...

He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

Wallace "Wally" Glen Alexander III passed away at his home on Thursday, January 30, 2025. He was born in Grove City, PA, the son of the late Wallace Glen Alexander Jr. and his surviving mother ...