Jesus believed in the imminent end of the world and the coming of the “Day of the Lord,” but that day never arrived, and ...

Pagan was one of nine men who have sat on the ... The sacked half-dozen coaches can be likened to the six wives of Henry VIII, each of them dispatched in different circumstances, yet with the ...

Won at Kelso (2m7f, soft) in December on second chase start and followed up at Ayr (3m, soft); won on good to soft over hurdles; soundly beaten fifth of seven here (nearly 2m5f, soft) last time but in ...

The Pantheon’s transformation from a pagan site to a Christian church is one of the most ... In the 17th century, Pope Urban VIII, a member of the Barberini family, ordered significant material to be ...

The circle and the stone share a dark and mysterious past, according to Irish mythology, for they have been identified as the site of pagan human sacrifice and the worship of the Sun God ...

Like Queen Elizabeth, she loves horses and a great tiara moment. Queen Elizabeth rejected her uncle King Edward VIII's last wish to have his wife, Wallis Simpson, styled as Her Royal Highness ...

Who invented Christmas? Historian Lucy Worsley traces the roots of Christmas by exploring the Anglo-Saxon tradition, wassailing where people sing to the apple trees to celebrate the winter ...