“John Paul II remains the Pope of freedom, who played a decisive role in the fall of the Soviet Union ... than ally himself with Rome, rival of Constantinople. I don’t know if history will ...

The lifelong relationship between Nikos Kazantzakis and Greece’s first female philosopher is vividly captured in his hundreds ...

"The Books of Andronicus Callistus ... The Revival of the Antique in 15th and 16th Century Cretan Painting" After the fall of Constantinople (1453), the island of Crete, which had been under Venetian ...

"Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone but in every leaf ... "All hail the pow'r of Jesus' Name; Let angels prostrate fall; Bring forth the royal diadem, and crown ...

Which is how the great Duda, the nickname for Dušan Ivković, one of the top coaches in the history of global basketball (as ...

In fact, Smith had already established dates for a couple of minor events in Israelite history, and on this brisk fall day he was ... by his permit from Constantinople. Though he deeply missed ...

The Western Roman Empire would fall after a period of serious decline in 476 CE. However, the Eastern half of the empire, which was predominantly Greek-speaking and centered in Constantinople ...

John Glubb Pasha was a distinguished British officer. He participated in the wars of the British Empire during its last half-century in Europe and ...

It is the first Saturday in grey-grim January 1993 and the end of a tempestuous wind-filled week. All evening the enigmatic Montalto Roarer, as we have labelled it, has been whipping up, realising ...

As North Vietnamese forces captured Saigon, the fall of the southern capital city on April 30, 1975, effectively marked the end of the Vietnam War. The evacuation of South Vietnamese allies and ...

50 years ago, Mighty America helicoptered out of Saigon, communists led by Ho Chi Minh won. But an economic crisis or two later, Vietnamese communists discovered capitalism. So successfully, that ...