Royalty was given special Hermes attention with the reign of the king that bears the Greek god’s name, and that of his queen, ...

The regal tradition of scratching signatures in windowpanes is long established and well known. The windows – particularly when in rooms of royal residences – formed a kind of living ‘guestbook’, ...

Ivor Brecker's numismatic treasures drew intense bidding at Noonans Mayfair, with the sale realizing £82,970 ($107,205 ...

In 41 BC, Cleopatra hosted a dinner to celebrate the Roman leader Mark Antony, who was a well-known party animal. Twelve ...

The exquisitely exacting and expensive process (three to four times more costly than reliable black and white) was a major ...

On March 8, 1917, protests against food rationing broke out in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg), triggering eight days of rioting that resulted in the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the end of ...

whom Nicholas propped up as Interior Minister till the end of his reign. Nicholas II's story ends in July 1918, with the cold-blooded slaughter of his entire family by Bolshevik agents--including five ...

Panasonic has rung the changes on this second edition of its full-frame flagship. The Lumix S1R II improves upon the original S1R in every key area, battery life excepted. For me, the most ...

Bipolar II disorder is a mental health condition that involves at least one depressive episode and at least one period of elevated mood, called hypomania. Bipolar II disorder causes intense ...

Learn more about Nicholas Hytner’s hit production starring Jonathan Bailey and plan your Richard II play London trip ...

I introduced a screening of Nicholas Ray’s 1956 melodrama “Bigger Than Life,” which is based on an Annals of Medicine piece titled “Ten Feet Tall,” by Berton Roueché, in the September ...

When police officers stopped 18-year-old Nicholas Prosper in Luton one Friday morning last September, he had already killed his mother, brother and sister and was planning to commit a mass ...