This video uncovers the political pressure, scientific ambitions, and imperial economics that set the Bounty expedition in motion—revealing how William Bligh, Joseph Banks, and the British admiralty ...

New York City hogs most of the spotlight when it comes to destinations within the Empire State, but it is also home to this ...

Steve Forbes shreds the U.K.’ s latest budget and explains why its higher taxes and the ending of jury trials will accelerate ...

The British Museum is well placed to refer to the discovery of the Library of Ashurbanipal as "one of the most important" ...

The Assyrian business community also had the first businesswomen and female investors. Generous tax breaks were given to ...

When Donald Trump’s term in office is done, this country moves quickly to recover its capacity for economic rationality, it should be able to regain some version of its place in the world economy. At ...

At the dawning of the British Empire in 1818, the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley penned a memorable sonnet freighted with foreboding about the ...

Evangelical Christian Zionism used to be one of the most coherent voting blocs in the US. But cracks are starting to appear ...

In four episodes, the BBC’s Civilisations series tells the story of the fall of the Romans, Aztecs, Egypt’s Ptolemies and ...

No list of “best romantasy books” is complete without Sarah J. Maas, and her A Court of Thorns and Roses series. The story follows Feyre, a young woman captured by a Fae after she kills one of his ...

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