Relations between Catholicism and Judaism cover a long, complex and violent history in which Christians revered the Jewish scriptures yet held Jews collectively responsible for the crucifixion of ...

The murder of Thomas Becket was recorded in a later history by the monk Edward Grim who claimed that the fatal blow split Becket’s skull as he knelt in front of the ...

Markievicz stood as a Sinn Féin candidate and secured over 63% of the vote in the constituency of Dublin St Patrick’s, but refused to take the oath of allegiance to the British crown and consequently did not take her seat in the House of ...

While other nations had converted ships into carriers the Japanese ship, named Hōshō, was the first to be designed and constructed as an aircraft carrier from the ...

The Exorcist is one of the highest-grossing films of all time, but originally opened in just twenty-six American ...

After Edward the Confessor and Harold Godwinson, William became the third person to wear the crown of England that ...

Cadets sought to continue the annual tradition of drinking homemade eggnog on Christmas ...

The poem is significant for being the first source to give the names of Santa’s reindeer, as well as establishing the image of the jolly fat Santa that we know ...

One of the organization’s first missions was in Nicaragua following the devastating 1972 earthquake. Since then, MSF has expanded its operations worldwide, responding to emergencies such as the Rwandan Genocide, the Ebola outbreaks in West Africa, and refugee ...

The first of the Mayflower Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, where they established the Plymouth ...

Having begun power operation at the end of August 1951, on December 20 Atomic Energy Program scientists at the EBR-I successfully used the reactor to produce enough electricity to power four 200 watt light ...