The novel Lonesome Dove follows two retired Texas Rangers, Captain Woodrow F. Call and Captain Augustus “Gus” McCrae, who own the Hat Creek Cattle Company and Livery Emporium in the small Texas town ...

Youth Pursuing Maiden (Possibly Peleus and Thetis), attributed to the Achilles Painter, c. 450-440 BCE. Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art The Cypria is commonly attributed to Stasinus of Cyprus, ...

Edgar Allan Poe laid the groundwork for modern detective fiction through his creation of C. Auguste Dupin, the analytical protagonist of The Murders in the Rue Morgue, widely regarded as the first ...

The emergence of Timur, often known as Tamerlane, represented the last major nomadic empire that stretched across much of what is today Asia and the Middle East. His empire nearly rivaled that of the ...

One of the most famous locations in the Arthurian legends is the Isle of Avalon. This was the mysterious island to which King Arthur was said to have been taken after he was severely wounded at the ...