The reluctant empress known as "Sisi" painstakingly crafted her image through portraits and photographs, ensuring she would ...

Thirteen winners of the Kentucky Derby have gone on to win the Triple Crown, by emerging victorious in the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes. The first Triple Crown winner was Sir Barton in ...

Queen Elizabeth II was just 25 when she acceded to the throne. She celebrated her Diamond Jubilee in 2012, making her one of Britain’s longest serving monarchs. Photo: The official picture of ...

5/5 Jacquet de La Guerre brings us to the fair, and still explores new musical territories.

(Voltaire had already compromised himself by writing an adulatory history of Peter the Great, relying largely on material supplied by the Empress Elizaveta.) Some French philosophers, notably Jean le ...