Toledo was a place where you could fight a man for money.
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Today’s World Cup coverage on Fox Sports 1 featured a short segment produced by National Geographic, in which a…
Bob Whidden got the bad news first. On June 14, 1978, Whidden was in Montreal representing the Cleveland Barons at the…
The Roman Empire in the west fell for a great many reasons. We could cite a lengthy series of breakdowns in its…
The Black Death, the wave of bubonic plague that devastated Europe after 1348, marked the final end of a long period of…
When we think of the Roman Empire as a physical space, cities are what come to mind. We see the huge bulk of the…
Over the last seven centuries, the Knights Templar have left the realm of history and entered the realm of pop culture.…
As the medieval world gave way to the early modern around 1500, European warfare was utterly transformed. Mounted…
Terry Funk, along with being a legendary professional wrestler, deserves recognition as a sort of godfather of the…
When the Roman Empire disintegrated over the course of the fifth century, only half of it actually fell, the western…
Jeffrey Gildenhorn, a beloved D.C. restaurateur, recreational politician, and full-time man about town for several…
There hasn’t been genuine last-week intrigue about who would win any Tour de France since 2011, when Cadel Evans took…
Recently, Netflix released the first season of GLOW, a dramedy based on the production of Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling,…
No empire, from Sargon’s Akkadian Empire to the Soviet Union, lasts forever. There’s always an expiration date.
When you watch WWE programming for a long time, certain patterns emerge, ranging from production quirks to how matches…
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In the year 350 AD, to paraphrase the historian Robin Fleming, Britain was as Roman a place as anywhere in the Empire.…
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