"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"

She was his Helen of Troy; their tumultuous relationship would span almost twenty years. The characters in what would be an interesting play are Irish poet William Butler Yeats and politicial activist Maude Gonne. They met in 1889, he was an up and coming poet and she was an artist that was finding a voice in Irish nationalism. Both were in their early twenties. He proposed to her two years later, and she refused him, sighting his lack of political activism and refusal to become Roman Catholic...

Cartimandua (sometimes mispelt Cartismandua)

British queen and Roman client, mid-late 1st Century AD


Cartimandua was the Queen (specifically described as a regina by Tacitus) of the Brigantes, a powerful and war-like Celtic tribe residing in what is now northern England. Nothing is known about her early life or how she came to be queen. Considering seperation from her husband later in life did not significantly affect her control of the tribe, it can be deduced that...

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) is probably the most instantly-recognizeable figure in American history. The 1,503 days of Lincoln's two terms were the hardest in the history of the United States Presidency. His first election helped trigger the secession of the Southern states, while his second election was made possible by the hard-fought victories of generals like Ulysses Grant and William T. Sherman.

Lincoln was the subject of much ridicule in his own lifetime. The former frontier lawyer...

Julian the Apostate stands out as one of the Roman Empire's most unique rulers. Apart from Constantine the Great and Attila the Hun, he remains one of the most readily identified figures from Late Antiquity.

Comparatively little is written about Jovian, the military officer who found Julian's suddenly empty mantle thrust upon him in June of 363 CE. Jovian was to spend most of his short reign undoing the controversial deeds of his predecessor, again making Christianity the Imperial Cult...