Cleopatra is remembered as much for her dramatic death as for her extraordinary life. In 30 BCE, the Egyptian queen and her ...

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In this painting, The Banquet of Cleopatra, also by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770), Cleopatra’s pearl is in her outstretched hand as she likely tells Mark Antony in regal Roman dress how she ...

When politics falls in love with pop, the result isn’t a romance. It’s a referendum on power, spectacle, and how we worship ...

Elizabeth Taylor's love life was the stuff of legend—and lyrics, Taylor Swift drawing inspiration from how the much-married ...