The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Boğazköy-Hattuša is located in the north of Turkey. It was once the capital of the Hittite ...

Aethelred failed to prepare for the Viking raids and invasions that would later bring Cnut to the throne of England, forging ...

Former EU Trade Negotiator John Clarke on how to counter the method behind the madness of current US trade policy ...

"The Last Kingdom" follows Uhtred of Bebbanburg, a young Saxon who is kidnapped and raised by Vikings before working for ...

It is the resting place of Jane Austen and an odd array of medieval figures, including Cnut the Great, Saint Swithun, and William II (commonly known as William Rufus), the son of William the ...

Welcome to robot city The city of Odense, in Denmark, is best known as the site where King Canute, Denmark’s last Viking king, was murdered during the 11th century. Today, Odense it’s also ...

The Great Seal of the Realm is the chief seal of the Crown, used to show the monarch's approval of important State documents. In today's constitutional monarchy, the Sovereign acts on the advice of ...

Dwight Eisenhower built the national highways system and founded NASA. A lot of the stuff the centralizers did was great, like the New York infrastructure czar Robert Moses’ building Lincoln Center.

Ed Miliband, the UK's current Energy Secretary, is swiftly cementing his place in history as the modern-day embodiment of King Canute. The legendary tale of Canute, who showed his inability to ...

LIKE medieval King Canute’s unsuccessful attempt to command ... There may be some way to go yet before high tide is reached and not a great deal that will stand in its way.

Elle Fanning in "The Great." Credit: Christopher Raphael/Hulu Tony McNamara's acid-tongued series The Great has certainly earned its name over the course of its past two seasons, boasting witty ...