Like caesars and sultans, days also gain and lose currency. Among those crying for friends, Romans, countrymen to lend them their ears is Martyrs’ Day. When did you last hear the 11am siren in ...

Ah, but every historian knows that all roads — and historical events — lead to Rome. Maybe April Fools’ Day is actually Roman, as they celebrated Hilaria. Besides its top-tier holiday name, you’d get ...

“The world is being inundated by the brazen conviction that power can do anything, justice nothing,” the man who had spent nearly a decade in the labor camps of the Gulag told a complacent world. “The ...

One of their friends, a pioneering theologian in the ... vi Not long after that, Vladimir was baptized and exhorted all his countrymen to be baptized too. The source for this story is ancient ...

This portent of doom transitions the audience into the world of 44 BCE Rome, where they — “Friends, Romans, Countrymen” — are then instructed by an announcement to silence their cellphones and enjoy ...

In one part of the world, not so long ago, under persecutions not inferior to those of the ancient Romans’, hundreds ... in ...