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When people think of the historical “Celts,” they are really thinking of the various peoples that lived across the European continent adjacent to the ancient Greeks and Romans and in Britain during ...
When Julius Caesar wrote a series of histories about the Gallic Wars around 53 B.C.E., he mentioned a fascinating group of ...
Seventy years old this year, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Les Diaboliques is a masterclass in macabre dread – and inspired ...
We’ve no real evidence that pre-Christian pagans did this, unless you count nutters like the Aztecs or believe the words of Roman geezer Julius Caesar. In his potboiler about the Gallic War ...
The late Bulgarian psychic Baba Vanga prophesied that 2025 would bring shattering earthquake sand that the Europe would be rocked by a devastating war.
France wasn't particularly known for horror in the post-war period, but it's difficult ... (1961), Robert Wise's The Haunting (1963) and Roman Polanski's Repulsion (1965), to name but a few.
Another grave, that of a teenage girl, contained thin gold shoe soles (meant, says Hiebert, for the afterlife), along with a Roman coin minted in the early first century a.d. in Gallic Lugdunum ...
The names of many of the gods worshipped by them are known through Latin or Gallo-Latin inscriptions made in late pre-Roman and Roman ... or losses in war, he was held personally responsible." ...
The city of Toulouse was at the heart of Caesar’s Gallic Wars in 57 BCE, which makes its Théâtre du ... Luciano Ganci was the cad and seducer Roman proconsul, Pollione, entering with “Meco all'altar ...
When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.