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“Build That Wall!” Refrain enthusiastically shouted during packed Donald Trump Republican campaign rallies around the US in 2016. “Tear down this wall!” Part of a speech made by Republican US President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin June 12, 1987, calling...

July 19 In History 362: The Roman Emperor Julian, known to Christians as Julian the Apostate, left Constantinople and arrived in Antioch to prepare for the invasion of Persia.  While preparing for the invasion he met Jewish leaders to whom he promised...

It is January end when my husband and I drive from Munnar to Kodaikanal (162 km) via Madurai.  If it is all about tea plantations in Munnar, the road to Madurai passes coffee, pepper and vast cardamom plantations.  As we go further, we come...

Robin Gauldie The National Bulgaria's significant Muslim population keeps its Ottoman roots well-tended, Robin Gauldie writes In the capital of a country that – more than 20 years after the fall of the Soviet imperium – is still reinventing...

One of the two votive tablets of the Thracian Horseman (Heros) deity discovered by the Razgrad archaeologists in Abritus. Photo: TV grab from BNT2 Two votive tablets with images of the Thracian Horseman, also known as Heros, the alleged supreme deity...