Fewer names are more instantly recognisable in history than Spartacus, the runaway slave who with his motley band of followers held at bay for two years the most powerful Empire then known to man.
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An entire generation of Britons came to recognise his voice, to know his rallying cry. They listened but they never believed, they came to despise and hate him, and they rejoiced when he died.
Caravaggio the artist is admired and adored by many, but what of the man? No artist ever tore at his own flesh more than Caravaggio, it is self-mortification on canvass.
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Eliphas Levi (born Alphonse Louis Constant), was largely responsible for the revival of magic, and contemporary witchcraft. During his life, he followed an esoteric Jewish path – hence the Hebrew pseudonym – and wrote many books on the occult, magic, and alchemy. However, he’s best know for his work regarding Baphomet, the alleged deity of the mysterious Knights Templar.
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The Emperor Constantine I is widely acknowledged as the man who brought Christianity to the West. There had of course been Christian settlements scattered around Europe for many years, particularly in Greece, and there was a large community in Rome itself; but they were in a minority, considered a cult, and always liable to persecution.
General James Wolfe has his place in the Pantheon of British Military Heroes, and deservedly so for his brilliant capture of the French Canadian City of Quebec with a plan so audacious that even now in hindsight it seems close to madness.
All this was consistent with Comyns Beaumont’s lifelong belief in the innate superiority of all things British. His career as a journalist had been dogged by his frustration with newspaper owners and editors who, he believed, failed to represent British interests adequately. His new theory of history restored the balance, to his satisfaction at least – and to the amazement and entertainment of all those who read his books.
