In 1879, during the Battle of Rorke's Drift, a soldier finds his leg has been bitten off. Suspecting a tiger, the soldiers ...

Kenneth Colley, an actor best known for his roles in the "Star Wars" films and "Monty Python's The Life of Brian," has died after contracting COVID-19 and developing pneumonia. He was 87. Movies // 7 ...

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John Cleese has sparked a backlash in Israel after pulling out of sold-out shows in the country, with media outlets pointing ...

A statue of Terry Jones, celebrating him as the Nude Organist from Monty Python's Flying Circus, will be unveiled on the seafront of his home town of Colwyn Bay next year. The comic actor and writer, ...

An incredible new map captures a stunning snapshot of the Roman Empire's vast transportation system as it was nearly 2,000 ...

The benefit of fragmentation is the central idea of Scheidel’s Escape from Rome, published in 2019. The idea was not new. But ...

French President Emmanuel Macron warned any Israeli plans for annexation in the West Bank would be a “red line” and would ...

Eric Idle has revealed George Harrison had a surprisingly morbid but uplifting way of comforting his friends – by reminding them, with a smile, that they were going to die. Their friendship began at a ...