Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, the longest-serving monarch in Europe, unexpectedly declared that she would abdicate her throne after more than a half-century, announcing in her […]
It started at 40,000 pounds, or about $50,000. Then the competition exploded, with a half-dozen bidding paddles raised in the London salesroom, followed by a flurry […]
Deep in the archives of France’s national library, an assortment of coded letters listed as Italian texts lay untouched for more than 400 years. But when […]