Louis XIV of France, the absolute monarch known as the Sun King, said, possibly apocryphally, “L’État, c’est moi,” literally, ...

We have spent most of our history as oppressed people. For almost two thousand years, we were scattered across the world; in over one hundred countries. Despite all this, we survived and continue to i ...

Yet, as it was with King Louis XIV of France, his accretion to an absolute leader was not solely at his behest as he was barely five years old when he became king at the death of his father, King ...

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The U.S.-based founder of a gin has created a cocktail in honor of Queen Elizabeth II, who took the throne 73 years ago. The ...

In 1663, New France (Canada) became a royal province under King Louis XIV. In 1778, the American ship Ranger carried the recently adopted Stars and Stripes to a foreign port for the first time as it ...