The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of stability, the need for them faded, forcing these warriors to find a new way of ...

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Thomas of Argos was a Greek mercenary who served King Henry VIII of England in the 16th century in the wars against Scotland ...

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A woman found human bones in the walls while renovating her 16th century farmhouse — and discovered a murderer lived next door. Emmie Brookman, 28, bought the three-bedroom property with her ...

gatehouses of the 13th and 15th Century and the adjacent 15th Century ranges together with the early 16th Century accommodation which is now subsumed within the present Darcy House (Abbot’sor Bishop’s ...

LONDON (AP) — Three men who plotted to kill a former cage fighter ... were sentenced Friday to a collective term of over a century in prison. Daniel Kelly, 46, and brothers Louis Ahearne ...