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In 1508, as Michelangelo thought about how to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling, he had to have someone else create the scaffolding.

In 1508, as Michelangelo thought about how to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling, he had to have someone else create the scaffolding.

Rodrigo Borgia, who became Pope Alexander VI, led a life marked by indiscretions and inappropriate behavior (especially for a Pope).

By the fall of 1692, the authorities running the Salem Witch Trials begun to have second thoughts about all the claims. Perhaps Governor Phips decided...

While "witch hunts" frequently took place in parts of Europe between the 14th and 16th centuries - resulting in the deaths of up to 50,000 people - th...

The first witch trial, in Massachusetts, occurred soon after the Puritans arrived in America. In 1648, Margaret Jones was accused - and hanged - in Ch...

A group of girls in Salem Village accuse three women of being witches. During a pretrial hearing, magistrates question the three accused and accept qu...

After Tituba—accused of being a witch in 1692—testified that she saw the names of other people in the “Devil’s book,” th...

C.S. Lewis, an unmarried professor whom his friends called Jack, was a highly successful writer when he met an American woman named Joy Davidman Gresh...

C.S. ("Jack") Lewis found love late in life, but his marriage to Joy Gresham did not last long.

NOTE: THIS VIDEO CLIP PROVIDES CLOSE-UP VIEWS OF SISTINE-CHAPEL FRESCOES.

Nineteen years after the formation of the modern Jewish state, Israel fought a war with her neighbors.