The Wild West was a lawless land. As the US settlers pushed west from the original territories of the United States towards the Pacific coast they encountered many dangers. The countryside was a dangerous place, the terrain often broken especially in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Outside of the safety of the towns there
The story of Robin Hood is a familiar one to almost everyone. His campaign of defiance from his hideout in Sherwood Forest against the evil Sheriff of Nottingham and his master “Prince” John is certainly inspiring, and its narrative echoes can be seen everywhere from Walter Scott to Star Wars. Such characters are always interesting,
‘Tis the season to be spooky! Grab your pumpkin and your best witch’s hat, break out the skeletons for your front lawn and hope nobody puts anything dodgy in your candy. Halloween is indeed one of the most popular holidays in the American calendar, a playful time of pranks and ghostly scares built upon the
Bronze Age Greece is seen as a golden age. This is Homer’s Greece, the Greece of the Iliad and the Trojan War, of city states and island kingdoms, of great heroes and gods and monsters. But it may surprise some to find that we actually know very little of this time. Once all the epic
The office of Pope has historically always been a highly important one. Such a role was and is intensely political, with the Pope uniquely being able to influence foreign powers through their people and their faith. This power does not always attract the pious, and the history of the Vatican and the broader Catholic Church
There is no question that the fate of Rome, her empire, Europe and by extension the western world was changed by one man. In the space of a single human lifetime this man took the august but creaking Roman Republic and, driven by his own ambition as much as a love for his people, remade