Thomas of Argos was a Greek mercenary who served King Henry VIII of England in the 16th century in the wars against Scotland ...

President John Adams regretted signing the Alien & Sedition Acts.  Imagine what he would say today if he learned that one of ...

Spectrum of Spring”: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday, May 7-11, at the Lincoln Park Conservatory, 2391 N. Stockton ...

Like many Syrians, I'd only ever known the country under the rule of Assad and his father Hafez, who had been in power from 1971 until 2000. Life under the Assads had meant more than 50 years of ...

Faisal’s subjects had no anthem, so a band struck up “God Save ... The 1916-1918 Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Turks, encouraged by the British military liaison officer T.

Prominent figures who once fled the country have returned too – many are greeted by a band playing traditional ... was appointed by a military council on 29 January, he delivered a speech ...

The Turkish military ... Kurds today favor rock-oriented bands like Ferec, which was setting up at a restaurant I visited in Hakkari. Ferec is an evocative Ottoman-era Turkish word variously ...

When we think of the Renaissance era in Western Europe our thoughts generally tend towards the opulence and wealth of ruling ...

It was founded by Rudolf IV of Austria, and was a military base for the Ottoman Empire in the 15th ... who was said to have killed a dragon with his band of heroes. It’s believed when a virgin ...