A lone tank of the British Eighth Army rolls across the African desert just past the border into Egypt, the crew dead from bullets or unconscious from heat,

For some, a birthday is a celebration; despite his wealth and powerful position as an investment banker, for Nicholas Van Orton it is emblematic of the emptiness of

Once upon a time there was a scavenger known as Elida. She was good at her game but trusted none and had no friends because she could not

Compiled by Chris Gosden, Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford and former curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, many of whose objects are referred to

Newton demonstrated that any object will continue in a uniform motion unless acted on by an external force; tumbling out of control in an escape pod following the

India, 1221, the funeral pyre of the beloved Princess Lafla, crown is lifted up for the mourning crowds to see, at its apex the ruby said to contain

Two households, quite dissimilar in dignity, in France, where we lay our scene; there is the Groseille family, father unable to work since being injured in the Algerian

A Hungarian actor who emigrated to the United States in 1920, Béla Lugosi made almost a hundred and twenty films in his career, his name becoming synonymous with

A convenience store in a dying town where debts are paid with honour and those who would break the trust of the town must pay in blood; an

She tours the Bible Belt filling church halls, standing on stage in her white dress and speaking of serenity and an end to worldly toil, a comforting picture