Join Tom and Dominic for this next instalment on the Franks and the rise of Charlemagne.

Burn explained that Betsy was the fourth child of William Patterson’s 11 children — six sons, and five daughters. Patterson, at the time, was a millionaire by today’s standards, and the second ...

Military reverses forced Napoleon to release the Pope, and on May 24th 1814, Pius VII returned in triumph to Rome. Twelve months later, the Pope decreed that the feast of Mary Help of Christians ...

BC: The traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu. 55: Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the ...

It ends badly. An old tyrant embarks on an ill-considered project that involves redrawing maps. Heedless to wise counsel and ...

The church over time advanced to Cathedral of Milan (Saint Mary Major) to which in 1251 Pope Innocent IV granted in perpetuity ... During the suppression of convents under Emperor Joseph II and ...

You know it’s going to be a bad night when your best shooters cannot even hit free throws, let alone find their mark from the ...

Hitler “Lebensraum” (Living space) was the Nazi concept that propelled the German war machine to seize new territories, ...

Pope Francis will hold the next few days of meetings in rooms at his Vatican residence while sick with bronchitis, the Vatican said Thursday. “Due to bronchitis, from which he is suffering at ...

Mark Pope’s Kentucky Wildcats don’t play any more defense than John Calipari’s final team that couldn’t guard a Division II transfer last March. Kentucky gets buried under a barrage of 3 ...

Set during the election for a new pope, the movie uses many of the real-life rules and dynamics of a conclave to build suspense, including the tradition of the chosen cardinal choosing a new name ...

What do you notice about the average earnings of college athletes? What do you wonder? By The Learning Network These questions invite you to reflect on the role that love — in all its forms ...