About halfway through the James Comey hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee, things got surprisingly medieval. In his written testimony submitted to the committee, Comey had reported that ...
A merchant’s son, Thomas Becket rose to fame and fortune as a royal chancellor and then archbishop of England — all due to the patronage of Henry II, whose eventual fury over Becket’s ecclesiastical ...
The 12th-century martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket is one of those grisly chapters of history seemingly plucked from the script of a gore-laden HBO show. Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was cut ...
On October 17, 1171, King Henry II became the first English King to set foot on Irish soil. By the time he left the island six months later Ireland's relationship with England had been changed forever ...
When an aging Henry Ford II decided to retire to Palm Beach six years ago, he was characteristically unostentatious about it. He didn’t build a lavish estate overlooking the Atlantic, or acquire a ...
It was during the reign of Henry II that the nature of England's relationship with the rest of Britain, and with the kings of France was defined. Henry was the first English king to go into Ireland, ...
There are many jobs around the world which have been described as "pointless". From guarding empty rooms to copying and pasting documents onto other documents, modern society has its fair share of ...
'Troublesome priest' or tormented soul - was Becket Henry's nemesis? The murder of Thomas Becket and his subsequent martyrdom has so overshadowed the reign of Henry II that it is often as difficult to ...
On the morning of Wednesday, April 15, 1964, a 22-year-old schoolteacher named Gail Wise walked into a Ford dealership on Cicero Avenue in Chicago, unaware that she was about to make history. She ...
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