A rare copy of Edgar Allan Poe's first book has sold for $662,500 at a New York auction. The copy of "Tamerlane and Other Poems" had been estimated to sell for between $500,000 and $700,000 at ...
There was a time when tribal nomads acted as the main engine of global history, upsetting empires, spurring migrations and forcing change among settled societies. In successive waves for more than a ...
A worn and stained first-edition of Edgar Allan Poe's first book "Tamerlane and Other Poems" was sold at auction by Christie's for $662,500, a new record for a work of American literature. The work is ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...
The shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar on August 27, 1896. It lasted 38 minutes. 1398 Feared Mongol ...
EXCLUSIVE: UK-based sales outfit Capture has added historical action epic Tamerlane: Rise Of The Last Conqueror to its Cannes slate. The feature, based on a true story, is directed by US filmmaker ...
Tamerlane - derived from his nickname Timur the Lame - rose from obscurity to become a 14th Century conqueror of nations, who piled high the skulls of his enemies. It was quite a feat at a time when ...
The creation of Timur′s kingly image was the work of his chroniclers and in particular the achievement of ′Ali Yazdi, whose literary masterpiece, the Zafarnama (″Book of Victory″), was commissioned by ...
Tamerlane - derived from his nickname Timur the Lame - rose from obscurity to become a 14th Century conqueror of nations, who piled high the skulls of his enemies. It was quite a feat at a time when ...