Since his death in 323 BCE, the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set out from his kingdom of Macedon (in modern-day Greece) at the age of 20 to conquer the mighty Persian Empire.

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So far, six people have been unmasked in the latest series, including the latest star to be unmasked - former Great British Bake Off presenter Mel Giedroyc as Teeth. Other celebrities revealed ...

When the war ended, tastes for vehicles had changed and factories started to produce more modern designs, and not those from the 1920s, marking the end of a British automotive icon in 1939.

American figure-skating icon Dick Button, who earned an Olympic gold medal twice and continued his career as an analyst on television broadcasts, died in Northern Westchester on Thursday, Jan. 30, ...

The Rolling Stones on Thursday led tributes to Sixties music icon Marianne Faithfull ... a beautiful singer and a great actress. She will always be remembered," he wrote on Instagram. Advertisment In ...

Kalyn said: "Next on my list of British cultural icons that I had never heard of, and this is where the term 'cultural icon' gets very loose, but it is something or someone called Mr Blobby.

NEW YORK — Marianne Faithfull, the British pop star ... She was a wonderful friend, a beautiful singer and a great actress." One of the first songs written by Jagger and Keith Richards, the ...

Citing free speech, the world's richest man seems to be helping jailed British right-wing extremist Tommy Robinson financially. What's behind Musk's apparent support? The British government is ...

The National Bank of Canada-Bond has a maturity date of 10/10/2029 and offers a coupon of 4.5000%. The payment of the coupon will take place 2.0 times per biannual on the 10.04.. The National Bank ...

IN SHORT: According to Facebook users in Nigeria, the Central Bank of Nigeria has unveiled a new N5,000 note that bears the face of president Bola Tinubu. But this is not true and the image was ...

[3.5/5] ‘Carry the Word’: Leaving listeners on a note of unity, togetherness, and defiance, Cymande gives definitive proof that they never lost their quality as proprietors of British funk and using ...