Kennedy Declares "Ich Bin Ein Berliner" to Thousands

Augustus didn't want Tiberius. He wanted his grandsons, Gaius and Lucius — young, bloodline-pure, the heirs he'd groomed for years. Both died young. So in 4 AD,…

Elagabalus adopted Alexander Severus because his grandmother forced him to. Julia Maesa had already decided her grandson was a disaster — too erratic, too stran…

Julian took a spear to the liver while retreating from Persia — and nobody knows who threw it. His own soldiers were suspects. The last pagan emperor of Rome ha…

Julian didn't die in battle — he died from a spear thrown by someone in his own retreating column. Nobody claimed credit. The Roman army was already falling apa…

Benedict II refused to wait. After his election in 683, he sat unconfirmed for nearly a year while messengers crossed the Mediterranean, bureaucrats shuffled pa…

The man chosen to lead the Catholic Church in 687 waited nearly a year to actually take the job. Benedict II was elected almost immediately after Leo II died, b…