What do 19th-century corn taxes have to do with life becoming more expensive today? It’s all about making the rich richer, and you much poorer.
Towards the end of the 18th century, the British Crown ruled the United Colonies with a fist of iron.
If England was the beating heart of Europe at the middle of the 14th century, the Black Death was the malignant cancer that lurked within it.
Within the magnificent stone halls of the Neo-Assyrian Empire’s court in the 7th century BC, the name of the scribe Ahikar was synonymous with integrity.
In the bustling heart of ancient Athens, where democracy thrived amongst a hotbed of intellectual debates, once lived a man named Xenophon.
During the twilight of the Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, a palpable sense of decay spread among its citizens.
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