Elon Musk and the history of the ‘Roman salute’
When Elon Musk performed a gesture that many saw as a fascist gesture, his supporters claimed it was a Roman salute. So ...
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Total War Rome: The Board Game review - a slightly baffling triumph
We’ve waited years for Simon Hall’s ambitious, official Rome Total War board game - and it fully lives up to Creative Assembly’s PC classic.
‘Hannibal and Scipio’ Review: Carthage Versus Rome
One of the greatest military rivalries of the ancient world featured dramatic scenes of elephants crossing the Alps, and a ...
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Guide to the classics: written more than 2000 years ago, Cicero’s On Old Age debunks stereotypes that persist today
Rome, and neighbouring regions, such as the philosophers Plato and Pythagoras and the generals Scipio Africanus and Fabius Maximus, who fought against Hannibal in the Second Punic War. This is a far ...
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Guide to the classics: written more than 2000 years ago, Cicero’s On Old Age debunks stereotypes that persist today
Rome, and neighbouring regions, such as the philosophers Plato and Pythagoras and the generals Scipio Africanus and Fabius Maximus, who fought against Hannibal in the Second Punic War. This is a ...
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Written more than 2000 years ago, Cicero’s ‘On Old Age’ debunks stereotypes that persist today
Rome, and neighbouring regions, such as the philosophers Plato and Pythagoras and the generals Scipio Africanus and Fabius Maximus, who fought against Hannibal in the Second Punic War. This is a ...
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Bethlehem marks second subdued Christmas, amid pall of ongoing war
In Bethlehem, in the West Bank, festive decorations were missing for a second consecutive ... mood as the multifront war in the region churns on, over a year after it started on October 7, 2023 ...
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The 30 greatest holidays in Italy for 2025
It is a perennial favourite, of course, with its cradles of culture – Venice, Rome and Florence ... defeated the Roman army during the Second Punic War. Ramble Worldwide’s Sights and ...
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Second World War in cinema: 20 of the best war movies ever made
You will find a number of those titles in this list of the 20 greatest Second World War films. These movies ... Malick returned to directing after a two-decade absence in stunning fashion with ...
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How Italy managed to beat fascism after WWII
Americans are alarmed by their country's stark political divisions. But they shouldn't despair. After WWII, Italy was even more politically polarised than today. Yet by the mid-1950s, it had succeeded ...