A mathematician, physicist, astronomer, inventor and engineer, the ancient Greek thinker Archimedes left a legacy much ...

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He was the leading mathematician of his age, and perhaps any age, who excelled in both theory and putting his ideas into ...

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The battle of Austerlitz is rightly hailed as one of the greatest clashes of the Napoleonic era. Yet more than 200 years on, it is often incorrectly portrayed as a battle in which Napoleon, as ...

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The relationship between Napoleon Bonaparte and his first wife, Joséphine, is as central to Ridley Scott’s new biopic of the French emperor as his military prowess and dramatic rise and fall. In the ...

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The outbreak of the war in the Pacific on 7 December 1941 (8 December, west of the International Date Line) is often depicted as a stunning surprise. This was not the case, at least at the highest ...

At shortly after 9.30pm on Friday 3 December 1926, Agatha Christie got up from her armchair and climbed the stairs of her Berkshire home. She kissed her sleeping daughter Rosalind, aged seven, ...