Under the Sun“ A monthly column of random, historical vignettes... The post Putin & Napoleon: A True Story of Overreach, ...

He, who served as a general and wazir of Adil Shah Suri of Sur Empire before he crowned himself king, was a pivotal player in ...

A reader says Beethoven would be bewildered that the European Commission plans to borrow €150bn to buy weapons of destruction ...

Musicians have been making music about global events and complex societal issues for centuries. What do they bring to the ...

Historic Contract Milestone Saquon Barkley has secured a groundbreaking two-year, $41 million extension that makes him the highest paid running back in NFL history in both average annual value and ...

Napoleon’s nephew Louis – who was elected president in 1848, retained power by means of a coup d’état in 1851, and later crowned himself emperor as Napoleon III – seized on this when he ...

Upon Edward’s death in early 1066, Harold crowned himself king instead, leading William to cross the English Channel and fight to reclaim his throne. All of this drama is captured in the ...

Soon after, he more or less promised to make France great again and declared himself emperor. Without wanting to comment on the relative pluses and minuses of Napoleon III’s reign, I can only ...

Now the mother stands over two man-boys (Khan and Khoo), and we realize that it was Khan who imagined himself crowned at the start. He playfully grabs the finger-crown from her and spins in a ...

we have Irvin Jim renouncing the SACP and the ANC - all in the name of Slovo who he misappropriates and "revolutionary" communism as he crowns himself "a practising communist". In the process of ...

Aurangzeb declared himself Emperor of Mughal India in 1658. Aurangzeb failed in his first attempt of vandalising Kashi Vishwanath. He and his Mughal forces first attacked the temple in 1664.