The Cadaver Synod: When a Pope Put His Dead Predecessor on Trial
— April 13, 2026In the dead of winter 897, inside Rome’s Basilica of St. John Lateran, one…
Let’s face it, is there any better way to ring in the year than with a good food fight? In this specific instance, we’re talking about a banana that was used by a man in Port Richey to attack his girlfriend. We normally don’t think of a food fight as something serious enough to warrant the attention of law enforcement, but in this case, the man was hauled of to jail for domestic battery. Both the man and his girlfriend claimed that the other threw the first banana, but since the girlfriend’s face showed a bit of redness from the alleged fruit attack, the man was arrested.
In the dead of winter 897, inside Rome’s Basilica of St. John Lateran, one…
Just after 2 a.m. on Sunday, July 30, 1916, New Yorkers were jolted from…
In the summer of 1587, 115 English men, women, and children stepped ashore on…
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