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The Corcoran Gallery of Art was adorned with the statues, commissioned in the late 1800s. But since then, they've changed ...

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Constantinople fell, and Emperor Constantine XI’s sacrifice marked the end of an era and a legacy of faith and defiance.

The current White House crew doesn't just pocket trinkets from despots; they've become apprentices to tyranny's craft. When Vance chides Europeans about excessive democratic safeguards, he speaks the ...

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Only well-run, well-funded and well-resourced colleges committed to fiscal accountability and prudence can guarantee us ...

Since the days of monarchy, all of these deities had been the subject of strict religious mores in the Roman Republic.