Albania’s Orthodox Church has held an enthronement ceremony for its new Archbishop Joan, who succeeded Archbishop Anastasios ...

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Say “Buna ziua” (“Good afternoon” or just plain “Hello”) to Sublocotenent (second lieutenant) Ecaterina Teodoroiu, the first ...

From Cilla Black to Sir Ken Dodd and Brian Epstein, Merseyside is the birthplace of many famous faces and influential figures who have also been laid to rest here. These individuals helped to shape ...

Kossuth lived in exile in England and (after 1865) in Italy. After his death in Turin in March 1894, his body was brought to Budapest and buried in state. On March 15, 1928, a crowd of 25,000 gathered ...

Once owned by a cousin of Richard the Lionheart and a Napoleon insider, it also hosted Joan of Arc (allegedly) and inspired literary heavyweights like Honoré de Balzac and George Sand ...

Unlike the grand mausoleums of other Mughal emperors, Aurangzeb's tomb is a simple structure, reflecting his wishes to be buried in an open grave. The tomb has been covered with soil on which herbs ...

If Joan Didion had an overarching preoccupation as a journalist and novelist, it was to find interstices where truth and myth blend into each other. In many of the essays that were collected in ...

And there is still no headstone at her grave. At first, ordering a monument wasn’t a priority, her husband, Phil Laskowski, said. But then the years passed quickly. At first, he was focusing on ...

In 1892, the Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz exiled Teresa Urrea from Mexico. He called her the most dangerous girl in Mexico. She was only 19 years old. Teresa Urrea was a “curandera,” or a healer, a ...