Why does Argentina wear a pale blue and white football kit? It's a story that involves the Byzantine Empire, Renaissance painters, Napoleon, and a revolution...

This has to be one of my favourite buildings in the UK.

Four newly discovered portraits by Cranach the Elder:

Of course Florence's mayor tackling a climate activist looks like a Renaissance composition

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135 years ago this week, the world’s first football league was founded.

Shower Food Review 41: Toast- I'm often in a rush in the morning so this was very convenient. I can preload the toaster the night before so I always have hot & fresh toast ready to go. And before you say something like "this is dangerous" no it's not, I used electrical tape. 8/10

Recently, Ridley Scott, when asked about historical inaccuracies in his films said: "How do you know, where you there? Napoleon had 400 books written about him. Maybe the first was the most accurate... there is a lot of speculation." A 🧵on how historians know what we know. 1/25

The United Kingdom will be declaring war on the United States.

British Army Humour An innocent typo was made and all parties involved have gotten as much enjoyment as they could out of it! Lt. Colonel Robert Maclaren retired from the British Army in 2001 after a long fulfilling career. On the day that he retired he received a letter from

Just watched the BBC documentary on Julius Caesar.

Good morning! Who dresses better? Alpha males or little dogs? Let's explore. 🧵

Here’s why I don’t believe explosives were used in the Hezbollah pager attack - of the 2000 or so pagers eventually, someone’s going to walk through an airport and get their pagers x-rayed. Always think horses not zebras.

I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 I got off the phone with the North Carolina National Guard a few hours ago. Your lies are killing people because National Guardsmen have to deal with people who are putting themselves in danger by avoiding FEMA instead of coordinating with the guard. You are killing people.

BBC News right now.

🚨 What’s happening in Sicily - Italy 🇮🇹 is absolutely extraordinary Mount Etna is erupting with its summit covered in snow Here are some explorers skiing between snow and fire! Unprecedented

Britains’s Jonathan Pie just completely went off on Trump’s stupidity.

After 9/11, NATO's Article 5 was invoked for the first (and only) time ever by the United States. Troops from the UK, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, Australia, Spain, Poland, Norway, Romania, Turkey, New Zealand, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine,