A pocket watch designed for Marie Antoinette, with an incredible number ... was not completed until decades after the French queen's execution. "It took so long to create that it wasn't finished ...

A group of 16 Discalced Carmelite nuns executed during the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution were canonised by Pope ...

Despite featuring all the key ingredients for a hilarious Far Side comic, some of Gary Larson's greatest strips are also his ...

Well, the bonze head of a Roman Emperor, Septimius Severus, who ruled from 193 to 211 A.D., was finally reunited with its severed torso early this month. Severus was said to be a wily Roman general, ...

What ensures this is the particular approach Hardman takes. He chooses to focus on the political role Marie Antoinette played, from becoming queen of France in 1774 to her execution in 1793. At first ...

Like in the last couple of years, Nick Taylor and Cláudio Alves are following and recapping the new RuPaul’s Drag Race season ...

But this article isn't about methods of execution, it's about cake ... The phrase "Let them eat cake" was probably never said by Marie Antoinette. The actual translation of the French phrase ...

This was where King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were executed ... during Medieval times and the French Revolution. The last execution took place in 1830. In 1871 fire was set to the Hotel ...

By Darius von Guttner Sporzynski THE Martyrs of Compiègne, a group of 16 Discalced Carmelite nuns executed during the Reign ...

In contrast, another theory suggests that the breed is descended from six cats that Queen Marie Antoinette of France sent to Wiscasset, Maine, before her execution in 1793. Regardless of its origin, ...