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A new Apple TV+ series explores the life of the so-called "King of Chefs and the Chef of Kings" – shown as a wild enfant ...
There is no better writer of narrative history than the Pulitzer Prize-winning Atkinson, who is able to transport readers to ...
“Translations” follows a group of Ballybeg folk whose rural lives are interrupted by the 1833 arrival of the English military ... joint home-schooling in 19th century Ireland, where Gaelic ...
Combined with David Ricardo (1772-1823), another influential British economist who expounded on the benefits of free trade with his theory of comparative advantage, by the mid-19th century laissez ...
Among the most recognized are the Revolution Passage, the Mexico Passage, and the Rodriguez Passage. These passageways have ...
The Frenchman Guillaume Tirel, known as "Taillevent", is famous for cooking ... for many aristocrats of the 19th and 20th Century. "One of the biggest examples in literature is PG Wodehouse ...
Ivan Vazov, born in 1850 to a wealthy merchant family in Sopot, a village before Bulgaria achieved liberation from Ottoman ...
A push to rename streets and remove statues associated with imperial Russia is dividing Odesa, whose identity is tied up in ...
In new book 'The Jew Who Would Be King,' historian Adam Rovner tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs, who survived a shipwreck ...
Uncover the layers of British culture through a quiz that tests your knowledge on everything from historical figures to culinary delights. How much do you really know?