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November 8 In History 30: Birthdate of Marcus Cocceius Nerva, the Roman Emperor who changed the way in which the special tax on Jews was collected so that would not be the humiliating experience created by his Flavian predecessors. 641: “Jews were...

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the...

FOUNDER OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS Born: December 24, 1491, Loyola (Azpeitia), Basque province of Guipúzcoa, Spain Died: July 31, 1556, Rome Canonized: March 12, 1622, Rome by Pope Gregory XV Patron of: provinces of Vizcaya (Biscay) & Gipuzkoa, Spain...

How Vladimir Putin’s desperate hold on power is fuelling the next revolution by Michael Petrou Illustration by Adrian Lee I. In late April, the forests surrounding Pikalyovo, an industrial city 250 km east of St. Petersburg, are still blanketed...

Article A.D. 1153 Saint Bernard, the prodigy and great ornament of the eleventh age, was the third son of Tescelin and Aliz or Alice, both of the prime nobility of Burgundy, and related to the dukes, particularly Aliz, who was daughter of Bernard,...