The Varangian Guard was a group of Viking mercenaries who served the Byzantine Empire and were highly valued by the Byzantine emperor.

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This story appears in the June 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The world economy in the ninth century had two powerful engines. One was Tang dynasty China, an empire stretching from ...

He drank the infusion and discovered its mind-clarifying properties. In the 9th Century, tea became firmly rooted beyond China, when it was adopted in Japan as a drink for monks and the elite classes.

Baghdad, the setting of Assassin's Creed Mirage, was the bustling capital of the Abbasid Caliphate and a major center of commerce, culture, and learning during the 9th century. The Mongol invasion ...

Century Support Services is a debt settlement company based in Pennsylvania. To date, the company has helped settled over $1.7 billion in debt for over 259,000 customers since 2003. Customers can ...

JUTTING, 32, was jailed last year for the sadistic murders of Sumarti Ningsih, 23, and Seneng Mujiasih, 26, in Hong Kong. ©News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. 679215 Registered office: 1 ...

But even the century-old trucking industry is facing changes. “I usually start [at] like 1, 2 o'clock, something like that, 12 o’clock. Depends what kind of work I’m doing,” says Ernest ...

Archaeologists have discovered a "monumental" structure in Israel dating back more than 3,000 and featured multiple times in the Bible. A team from the Israel Antiquities Authority and Tel Aviv ...

American Century Select, Ultra, and Focused Dynamic Growth's co-lead manager Michael Li has announced his intention to retire from the firm early next year. He will relinquish his management ...

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The pop and R&B hitmaker born Abel Tesfaye had one of the most compelling and least predictable paths to superstardom of any artist this century. By Heran Mamo With the first quarter of the 21st ...