Roman Emperor Nero. Credit: NickW557, Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0 Few figures in history have been as polarizing and controversial as Nero, the infamous Roman emperor who had a love affair with everything ...

Without Goethe, one might say, the great tradition of high culture that characterises modern Germany would never have begun; without Goethe, the archetypes of the national imagination – the raging ...

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1976: Buckingham Palace announces that Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon are to separate after 16 years of marriage. On the same day, Paul Kossoff, guitarist with Free and Back Street Crawler dies ...

The Apothecary Diaries and I Left My A-Rank are the only two series continuing on with new English dubbed episodes for the Spring 2025 season for Crunchyroll because a whole SLEW of new and returning ...

A couple travels to Northern Europe to visit a rural hometown's fabled Swedish mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre ...

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The French director Alain Guiraudie’s latest film, a bent kind of murder mystery, presents life at its basest and gamiest. By Wesley Morris This gimmicky thriller starring Bill Skarsgard and ...