Practicing the art of being a grandfather, I am re-reading fairy tales. As it turns out, they are anything but “fairy,” and ...

Emperor Manuel is known to have personally pressed Nicholas to produce a reasoned answer to Axouch's enquiry. [20] Alexios Komnenos, John II's son and co-emperor, and father-in-law of John Axouch's ...

The acoustic guitar virtuoso Yasmin Williams is joined by a fellow guitar explorer, Kaki King, and the violinist Darian Donovan Thomas in “Harvest.” They enfold a folky melody line in ringing, keening ...

In accordance with a peace treaty between his elder brother, Stephen III, who succeeded their father in 1162, and the Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos, Béla moved to Constantinople in 1163. He was ...

From priceless Peruvian gold treasures to a fly-through virtual experience of Machu Picchu, this summer blockbuster promises ...

Pre-Columbian Mexico was one of world's cradles of civilization, and home to civilizations including the Olmec, Maya, Zapotec ...

This Labour conference was supposed to be a victory parade, Emperor Starmer’s Merseyside ... it was incomprehensible. Worse than Manuel in Fawlty Towers. Lynne was invited to respond and ...

1180: With the death of Manuel I Komnenos, the last Byzantine Emperor of the Komnenian restoration, the Byzantine Empire begins its terminal decline 1493: Christopher Columbus embarks on his second ...

The dynamic group floats against a background of clouds above Mount Sinai, with St Catherine’s Monastery, the oldest continuously inhabited Christian monastery built by Emperor Justinian ...

Constantine XI Palaiologos was born on February 8, 1405, the eighth of ten children of Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos and his wife Elena Dragases, daughter of the Serbian ruler Konstantin Dejanovic.

Scholars agree that the purpose of the document was to convey the message that the Tlaxcalans had helped the Spaniards in an effort to receive benefits from the emperor ... In 1773 Juan Manuel Yllañes ...