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Though hesitant and selective about linking to anything on the site formerly known as Twitter—it’s lamentable that such a mainstay ha...

Though history may consider his successive claimant the last Roman emperor by dint of the poetic symmetry of his praenomen and cognomen,...

Granted recognition as an independent state by the Holy See when Duke Branimir ( see previously ) received blessings from Pope John VIII on ...

Having enjoyed all the performances from Eurovision Song Contest from Liverpool Saturday—we didn’t stay up late enough for the voting but s...

Referred to by some historians as a “goodly stablemaid” and likely from humble roots in Bithynia (Anatolia)—though other counte...

Venerated on this day on the occasion of martyrdom (†303) after a series of horrendous torture sessions for keeping the faith and recruiting...

Reigning for a scant nine weeks, Didius Julianus was the second to hold imperial office during the Year of the Five Emperors ( see previou...

As a long-standing tradition here at PfRC, here is our annual recap of this most extraordinairy year. We‘ve come all this way together and ...

Honoured worldwide on this day, the fashion tracing its origins back to the traditional uniforms worn by Croatian mercenaries stationed in F...

like a version : a brilliant cover of the 1998 Massive Attack hit Teardrop   the goldilocks paradox : a preliminary survey of superhabitable...

Four days after his death in Ljubljana due to complications during surgery to correct circulation problems in his legs, the government of Yu...

While meandering for just over a kilometre, the shortest river in France that we visited several years back dwarfs these watercourses, it i...

While all of Italy is under lockdown conditions forming a cordon sanitaire to medically isolate potential carriers and stop the spread of s...

rebirth of a salesman : revisiting a 1969 documentary that revealed how evangelism and door-to-door sales converged новогоднее дерево : th...

horton plaza : a study of the postmodern ghost mall built to revitalise downtown San Diego for hire : riotously brilliant hand-painted sig...

Rummaging through the archives—which is an always advisable activity— Things Magazine directs our attention to the Haludovo Palace hotel , ...

spomenik database : ten year’s worth of documenting Eastern European monuments from Darmon Richter, via Present /&/ Correct clip-art :...

This day marks the last in the triplet of saints’ days, commemorating early martyrs and bishops of the fourth and fifth centuries, tradition...

Croatian abstract artist and founding member of the avant garde collective known as the Gorgona Group of 1960s Yugoslavia, Julije Knifer (*...

From the Serbo-Croatian word for monument, we discover via Calvert Journal , there’s a well-curated, well- researched catalogue of the thous...