Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” On January 29, 1845, Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poem, "The Raven", was published for the first time on the pages of New York's The Evening Mirror. Poe's signature dark, supernatural atmosphere,…
On December 29, 1170, the English Archbishop Thomas Becket was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral. Becket, having been martyrized by the King's men due to conflicts over the rights of the Church under the reign of…
On December 19, 1997, exactly twenty years ago, theaters all across North America welcomed what would have been one of the most successful movies of all time: James Cameron's Titanic. While many had thought of…
On December 17, 1538, Pope Paul III proclaimed the excommunication of King Henry VIII of England. Henry's role in initiating the English Reformation is well-known, along with his many infamous remarriages that originally sparked the schism. Despite…
December 4, 771 AD: Charlemagne's younger brother and king of Austrasia, Carloman I, perishes from a sudden illness after just a little more than two years spent on the throne. At the time of his death,…
On November 27th, 43 BC the so-called "Lex Titia" legalized the Second Triumvirate of Octavian, Mark Antony, and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus; with this, the Triumvirate was officially given the power to make or annul laws without the…