What makes you a villain in history? One king oversees the slaughter of thousands in battle and is hailed a champion; another does the same and is condemned as a monster. Is it a question of death toll? Is it greed? Is it cruelty? It’s this...
DR ZAHI HAWASS Zahi is an Egyptian archeologist and Egyptologist. He is the author of numerous books, has appeared on several TV shows, gives lectures around the world and has been dubbed “the reallife Indiana Jones”. He also served as...
The name Roswell will already be familiar to many readers, especially fans of science fiction, who may well have enjoyed the popular television series of the same name, followed by a later spin off. Both of these shows were influenced by a...
In the popular imagination the Victorians were a pragmatic, industrious and slightly puritanical people. They had little time for fun and frivolity as they set about laying railway tracks and building gigantic factories. But that is...
On 63 BCE, Marcus Tullius Cicero was elected a consul of the Roman Republic. Aged 43, he already had much to be proud of; he was a lawyer, a writer and an orator whose speeches were without equal. But these were dark times for Rome. The days of...
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The Password is Courage stars Dirk Bogarde as Sergeant Major Charles Coward, who was renowned for several escape attempts and acts of sabotage during WWII. As shown in the film, he once posed as a wounded German soldier and was...
