The percentage of admitted students at BC is half of what it was only five years ago, when the admit rate for the Class of 2021 (with 28,454 applications) was 32 percent. Just three years ago, the ...

Caesar scored some early victories and, by 46 BC, was dictator of Rome. After a year spent eliminating his remaining enemies, he returned home. Generous in victory, he was kind to his defeated ...

In 46 BC, emperor Julius Caesar introduced a new Julian calendar which instituted January 1 as the start of the new year, taking the namesake of Janus, the Roman god of beginnings. Roman ...

Confucius died in 479 BC, a year before the Battle of Salamis. Thereafter China began a long period of civil war that would last for over 250 years. Mesoamerica: During the 5th and 6th centuries ...