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FT has covered these a number of times, with one of the earliest and most disastrous examples taking place in Hammersmith in 1804 (see FT296:42-45, 310:30-35, 452:16-18). Then a semi-rural village on
In AD 897, Pope Formosus was put on trial for the crimes of perjury, coveting the papacy and violating canon law by holding more than one bishopric at a time. In truth, the whole thing was a spectacle
Long before the Romans came to dominate the ancient world – before Caesar crossed the Rubicon, Claudius invaded Britain and Vesuvius buried Pompeii – another civilisation dominated the Italian peninsu
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Ireland, the “inventor” of Halloween, is now the home of the hit supernatural series Wednesday
An anonymous online statement about Fort reads thus: “While he didn’t specifically focus on horticulture, his work, particularly in books like The Book of the Damned often touched upon unusual natural