Today, more than two millennia after Augustus forced a poor family on a journey to Bethlehem, billions of people around the ...

American Christians now find themselves facing a question perhaps heretofore unconsidered Why are Satanists so seemingly ...

Then the story slowly emerged. Major Nur Chowdhury was the officer who shot and killed Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founder of Bangladesh, during a coup that saw the assassination of Mujibur’s extended ...

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I died one bright day in 1969—yes, died; crushed by a motorcyclist. It happened on Ileya Day (Eid el Kabir) in my hometown. I ...

In 1777, Hanukkah candles were lit during the Valley Forge encampment, the turning point of the Revolutionary War, which solidified the victory of George Washington’s Continental Army over the British ...

It is not her fault that Nigerians have never learnt to queue properly, even inside the banks, at ATM machines, at supermarkets, any and everywhere ...

Herod the Great was the King of Judea who is said to have preserved the body of his dead wife in honey for seven years.

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After the conquests of Alexander the Great in Egypt, the Ptolemaic dynasty established Alexandria, the jewel of the ...

The date of January 1 for the New Year goes back to Julius Caesar, the Roman emperor who ruled a generation before Jesus was ...