In 336 BC, plans to conquer the Persian Empire came to an abrupt end by the sword of an assassin. Macedonian dominance of Greece could have very well collapsed it not for the succession of Philips' son, Alexander the Great. At the age of 21 he assumed his father's kingdom, confirmed ...
It was his own nephew (who was engaged to a daughter of Lucilla and Verus) who drew the dagger to attack the emperor. However, the assassin was overpowered and several conspirators (including members of the Senate) were put to death. ...
I would be the laughing stock of the army if I brought a woman assassin out for trial. I would be a laughing stock if it were known that Sir William’s sister was the faceless knight at Marston field who almost took my life.” “So another impasse is reached, Master Cromwell.” “...
On the quiz show popular in the United States and the United Kingdom, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, one young contestant ignorant of Latin blew a 125,000-dollars prize because he did not know that the vexillology is the study of flags, vexillum being the Latin word for flag. The ...
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For the past three years Rome’s supreme military commander, the Magister Utriusque Militiae, Flavius Aetius, had sent Ambrosius wherever trouble erupted across the failing empire. Wherever an army was too many, or an assassin too few, he and his band of disparate bucellarii were despatched ...
Once again, the word “Evangelical” is in no way threatening to the Vatican. In fact, theJesuit“flagship” periodical,Americamagazine23sought him outfor his opinion on the 2016 Presidential election. When Father Sean Salai, S.J. queried Olasky about being “evangelical Protesta...