Naqsh-e Rustam: a lasting memory of a once powerful empire
A comprehensive list of the most popular produced weapons of warfare
Emma Hamilton, the beauty who was Romney’s muse and Lord Nelson’s love
The Speyer Cathedral: the largest preserved Romanesque church in Europe
Charles Darwin’s cousin invented the dog whistle, meteorology, forensic fingerprinting, mathematical correlation and the concept of inherited intelligence
C.B. Fry – “The Almighty”, “Lord Oxford” and “The Grand Old Man of Sport”
Edwin Booth, John Wilkes Booth’s brother, saved the life of Robert Lincoln, on a train platform
In Ancient Rome, a slave would continuously whisper ‘Remember you are mortal’ in the ears of victorious generals as they were paraded through the streets after coming home, triumphant, from battle
In Ancient Athens, citizens could vote to banish any person from the city-state for 10 years
In Ancient Rome, suicide was allowed as a form of euthanasia
