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Getty Images     For ten long years, the great city of Troy had been laid siege to by the Greeks.   Then one morning the Trojans looked...

Getty Images     That maestro is me! I am a maestro, and an orphan too. You don’t know my name, and you never will! It’s a secret, you...

Getty Images     They are called woodworkers, or joiners, and their job is to work, shape, sand, saw and assemble wood to make it useful....

Getty Images     Ben Carré arrived at his studio in the Hollywood hills, eager to complete the colossal project that was keeping him...

Getty Images     The Jordan is a river that flows for three hundred and sixty kilometres, from Mount Hermon in Lebanon down into the Dead...

Getty Images     In 2016, the Catholic Church honoured Mother Teresa, canonising her as Saint Teresa of Calcutta.   Anjezë Gonxhe...

Getty Images     Nothing seemed to get Forrest Gump down. The sky was blue and the gulls had invaded his boat in search of fry, and today...

Getty Images     It’s not just that his colourful wings are pretty – my parrot, Luki, is as smart a beast as they come. He’s not some...

Getty Images     When Domenico first settled on the idea of making pasta for a living, he chose the city of Naples on the Italian coast...

Getty Images     Somewhere in Naples, on the top floor of an apartment building, Luigi’s grandmother was making marinara sauce for her...

Getty Images     The Marines of the 22nd Regiment were in South Vietnam, somewhere in the rainforest near the mountains of Saigon. They...

Getty Images     Martin Riggs was racked with grief. He had been devastated by the recent and premature death of his wife. One tragic car...

Getty Images     Superman, the son of Jor-El, known to his fellow Daily Planet  reporters and citizens of Metropolis as Clark Kent, had...

Getty Images     The arrest had sent a shiver down America’s spine, and horrified Frank Sinatra’s fans. To understand the circumstances...

Getty Images     “Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re gonna get,” Forrest Gump’s mother used to say. He repeated...

Getty Images     Faraway from earth, on the other side of the universe, the planet Krypton was about to explode. Jor-El could not allow...

Getty Images     Since time immemorial, herring have been abundant in the icy-cold waters around Nova Scotia. This morning a pale,...

Getty Images     Salvatore Maranzano had been a pious and well-behaved child. He had studied the teachings of the church with discipline....

Getty Images     London was ablaze, and blood had been spilled in her streets. But the capital of the kingdom, and the Empire, would...