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Why was tragedy the most fashionable genre in Ancient Greece? Who Really Wrote Le Morte d'Arthur? Was Machiavelli so cunning? Why did Dante walk through hell...

The Krupp family, which over the course of centuries created one of the most powerful corporations in the world, reached the peak of its power at the end of ...

How can baroque be ugly? We remember the wonderful music of Vivaldi and Bach. Is she ugly? What about Rastrelli's palaces? What kind of ugliness can be found...

In the town of Hunters Point, New York, several women - the wives of prominent lawyers and businessmen - disappear without a trace. All that remains of them ...

The Master of the Order of the Templars - the founders of Freemasonry - the mystic and prophet Jacques de Molay was burned at the stake of the Holy I...