In 41 BC, Cleopatra hosted a dinner to celebrate the Roman leader Mark Antony, who was a well-known party animal. Twelve ...

He looked at his brother and said: "Get to D.C. and do what you do best." - The most disastrous haircut ever was that of King Louis VII of France - it started the Hundred Year's War. He was a 13th ...

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Louis VII of France. Admits Fry wryly: “There are several plays there.” Fresh Start. In obvious need of rewriting, anticlimactic after Becket’s second-act death and sometimes weighed down by ...

Undeterred by Napoleon’s brief return to power in 1815, Alexander sought to confirm his status as Europe’s saviour with the publication, on Christmas Day, of a treaty between himself and the crowned ...

English Gardens are a style of overgrown, under-manicured style popularized in England. Here are the 25 most beautiful (and ...

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Less famous than its 1215 predecessor, the Magna Carta of 1225 held the true power.

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France has seen off a resilient Scotland 35-16 and clinched the Six Nations title with a tournament-try record in Paris ...