The 18th-century reign of Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress, was a blend of crafty statesmanship, ugly anti-Semitism and ...

This song was written while Burns was simultaneously helping to organize the Dumfries companies of Volunteers against a proposed French invasion in the spring of 1795. It was published in a number ...

Princess Michael, once called "haughty" by a royal insider, paid tribute to him, describing Thomas as "a lovely man, so kind and so thoughtful," and expressed that the family had no prior ...

The highest-spending government since World War 2 was the Morrison Government, in which Angus Taylor was a senior minister.

It was thanks to her uninhibited performance as the bawdy Moll Flanders that Alex Kingston shot to fame. She romped her way through no fewer than 17 love scenes in the 1996 television adaptation ...