In the aftermath of the Second World War, as the Soviet Union imposed ideological control across Eastern Europe, the CIA ...

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From seasonal intimacy schedules to open-air nudity, ancient Greco-Roman thinkers had no shortage of theories on how to stay ...

In 2020, analysis of a skull fragment discovered at Newgrange, County Meath, led to sensational claims of royal incest within ...

A supernaturally athletic ghost is alleged to have menaced the towns and cities of 19th-century England. Able to spew fire from its mouth and jump extraordinary distances, this phantom confounded the ...

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The public uptake was overwhelming. Despite warnings by postwar prime minister Clement Attlee that there were “bound to be early difficulties with staff, accommodation and so on”, 94 per cent of the ...

Edward was just a boy when he became Earl of March, and at the age of 13 became embroiled in a civil war when his father rebelled against the Lancastrian king Henry VI, sparking the Wars of the Roses.

A sense of duty Sex for most Romans was undoubtedly gratifying, but it was also a duty: largely speaking, it was probably more gratifying for the men and more a duty for their women. Men delighted in ...

Aristarchus (c310 BC – c230 BC) The astronomy of antiquity was nothing if not practical: telling the time of day, finding one's geographic location, establishing a calendar, and predicting the future.