Napoleon believed he could defeat Britain without invading it - by cutting off its trade and isolating it from Europe. The ...

The Louvre celebrates the French master—who painted for Louis XVI before morphing into an ardent revolutionary and then a ...

From quirky indie film fame to starring in a beloved TV series, see where Napoleon Dynamite's Deb found her next big role.

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In 1823, America was a nation whose military was inferior to any of the major (or even minor) European powers and that ...

Today January 10th is Margaret Thatcher Day in the Falkland Islands. The date remembers and celebrates when the former Prime ...

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Whereas all the while the US was a ruthless, rapacious empire. Gore Vidal couldn’t abide the hypocrisy, duplicity and ...

A triple header of author talks will take place Jan. 13 with three local writers, Chip LoCoco, Vicki Salloum and Elisa ...

America has toppled governments or otherwise intervened in Latin America many times, and particularly so from the 1850s and, ...

Despite internet fantasies about the violent conquests of the "Manifest Destiny" era, the truth is that most of America’s ...