As a (near) lifelong bureaucrat, I always have an interest in, and a certain fellow feeling with, past colleagues facing ...

Movies and TV shows have been making drama out of historical events since the dawn of the business. While Braveheart isn't ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — Eric Nelsen is a busy guy. The 33-year-old actor/producer was en route to a Utah airport after shooting ...

More of Caravaggio’s religious paintings are in chapels downtown Rome. The Conversion of Saul, an early version of which is in the exhibit, and the Crucifixion of Peter are in Santa Maria del Popolo, ...

Jerry Falwell invited a select group of Christian conservative leaders to a strategic planning retreat at his Lynchburg, VA, estate.  Falwell ran a private Christian academy and hosted a popular ...

At the beginning, a Biblical quotation appears on the curtain ... the crucial holy spear thrust into Christ’s side by the Roman soldier at the Crucifixion becomes a small whittling knife.

Archeologists discovered a heavily handled penis pendant at a fort erected near northern England landmark Hadrian’s Wall and believe it was used by a Roman soldier as a good luck charm.

His biblical scenes were raw and unvarnished ... Caravaggio dresses him as an ancient Roman soldier, breaking from his usual contemporary clothing. A towering horse dominates the frame, its ...