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They performed before thousands and could become celebrities, yet actors in ancient Rome were stripped of their civic rights.
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Long before Blair Waldorf ruled Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Alva Vanderbilt was orchestrating social coups, courting ...
How did the two men meet? Why did they come to blows, and why did England’s king die at the hands of a foreign invader? Few people knew the answers to those questions, and those who did were not ...
When Leif Erikson and his fellow Norse explorers first sighted the forested shores of what is now northeastern Canada, they became the first Europeans known to set foot in North America. This was near ...