The sun was setting on the Norwegian port of Bergen. It was early July, 1349,…
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In the 6th century BC, Cyrus II of Persia embarked on a mission of conquest.…
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One hundred years ago, a reclusive Czech-Jew living anonymously amid Prague’s spires managed to change…
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He’s one of the five longest-reigning monarchs in the history of the world. Emperor Franz…
He’s a man known to history literally as ‘the Terrible’. Ivan IV was the first…