SOCRATES (The Man Who Asked Why) (Part 1)
One spring evening in 399 BC, shortly before sunset, Socrates took himself off for a bath. ff In doing so, he said, no one would…
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AL CAPONE
The 1987 film The Untouchables tells a tense, exciting story about Prohibition in America. When alcohol was made illegal in 1920,…
ELIZABETH (The Real Face) (P2)
PEELING BACK THE MASK:But beneath the image of a strong, confident and youthful monarch lay a very different woman one that onl…
ELIZABETH (The Real Face) (P1)
When Elizabeth I ascended the throne in 1558, she was the most eligible woman in Europe and, before long, had some of the most pow…
ELIZABETH (Part 3)
TROUBLES WITH THE NEIGHBOURS DEATH: At Elizabeths accession, Ireland was a troublesome mixture of Gaelic and English in both the…
ELIZABETH (Part 2)
A WAY WITH WORDS:The defeat of the Spanish Armada has gone down in history as one of Britains greatest military achievements, and …
ELIZABETH (Part 1)
When Anne Boleyn gave birth at Greenwich Palace on 7 September 1533, the world waited expectantly for news of a healthybaby boy t…
CYRUS THE GREAT (Empire Builder and Defender of Human Rights)
Capturing Babylon had been far simpler than Cyrus the Great had expected. With thick towering walls, any attempts to siege the cit…
DESTINY IN THE DESERT (Part 2)
WORK BEGINSMuch needed to be done before the team could enter the third, sealed room the burial chamber of Tutankhamun. Wadding, …
DESTINY IN THE DESERT (Part 1)
Deep beneath the Egyptian desert on 26 November 1922, British Egyptologist Howard Carter stood nervously before a sealed doorway. …
