King Arthur: myth and history
The legend of King Arthur is one of the most characteristic myths of medieval England.
The legend of King Arthur is one of the most characteristic myths of medieval England.
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On 20 March 1944, Gen. William J. Donovan, director of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), passed on to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt a memorandum
There are many historical figures whose lives, actions or deaths are covered by a veil of mystery.
When 28 civilians were killed in Athens, it wasn’t the Nazis who were to blame, it was the British.
Pantheon, a project developed by the Macro Connections group at the MIT University Media Lab that collected and analyzed data on historical
On February 10, 1962, two men stepped on to opposite ends of the Glienicke Bridge in Berlin.
Despite the fact that several historians and modern day Nazi apologists are trying to exonerate the Germans for the countless atrocities
The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) left a legacy of daring and innovation that has influenced American military and intelligence thinking since World War II.
Alan Turing—an English mathematician, logician, and cryptanalyst—was a computer pioneer.
Down the road only a few generations, the millennium of Magna Carta, one of the great events in the establishment of civil and human rights, will arrive. Whether it will be celebrated, mourned, or ignored is not at all clear.
Alexander the Great, who ruled much of the ancient world until his death in 323 B.C., was conquered at age 32 not by an enemy, but possibly by a tiny intestinal bug.