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THE TRUTH ABOUT: 6 - The Untold Story

TV Tonight: Our highlights for Wednesday, May 10

Race Across the World is just one of the gems on TV tonight.

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Cleopatra's skin colour didn't matter in ancient Egypt – her strategic role in world history did

Cleopatra, queen of Egypt in the years 51-30 BC, is back in the news thanks to a controversial docudrama series on Netflix called Queen Cleopatra. Much debate has raged about her ethnicity. The queen was of Greek ancestry. In the Netflix series she’s played by a black actress. The fuss…

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2,000-year-old hoard of Roman coins may have been hidden by a soldier during a bloody civil war in Italy

The silver coins, mainly from the first century B.C., were unearthed in Tuscany in Italy and are hidden relics from a turbulent time in Roman history.

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Shakespeare's First Folio turns 400: what would be lost without the collection? An expert speculates

It has been 400 years since the publication of the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays, a volume now known as the First Folio. Prepared by his fellow actors after his death, the book presented 36 plays divided into the genres of comedy, history and tragedy.

The Conversation

Ex Casualty villain to lead huge Netflix show alongside Hollywood star

A former Casualty star is set to take center stage in Queen Cleopatra...

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Queen Cleopatra: release date, cast, plot, trailer, interview and all about Jada Pinkett Smith's docu-drama series

Queen Cleopatra on Netflix stars Casualty’s Adele James plus former EastEnders actors John Partridge and Michael Greco.

WhatToWatch

Julius Caesar review – timeless account of the flimsiness of power

Atri Banerjee’s RSC production stresses the remarkable universality of the play’s examination of leaders and the led

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No, your "Celtic" tattoo isn't Celtic

The real and complicated story of Ireland's past is a lot more interesting than Irish Americans make it out to be

Salon

‘I’m no white man in a toga’: Thalissa Teixeira on having a stab at Brutus

The actor, better known as a TV cop, is portraying Julius Caesar’s assassin in a first for the RSC. She reveals why she’s been studying revolutionaries, from Mexican Zapatistas to Welsh nationalists

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The Ides of March and perils of power

This Wednesday will be the 74th day of the year, which admittedly doesn't sound like something to get too excited about. But it is not just any old day. Known in Roman times as the "Ides of March" the 15th marks the anniversary of the assassination of Julius Caesar in…

Bangkok Post

What is a Leap Year and when will it happen?

They usually take place every four years

The Independent UK

Why do we have leap years and when was the last one?

Julius Caesar introduced leap years to the Western calendar more than 2,000 years ago

Evening Standard

Firaxis is giving Civilization 6’s Julius Caesar DLC away for free

Civilization 6’s free Julius Caesar DLC is available soon, bringing the land-hungry, money-loving Roman Emperor to certain platforms

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Who was Mostafa El-Abbadi as Google Doodle celebrates Egyptian historian

Mostafa El-Abbadi would have been 94 today. The Egyptian historian specialised in Greco-Roman studies and is credited with reviving the ancient Library of Alexandria

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Nîmes: France's Little Rome

In the southern French city of Nîmes, the passion for Ancient Rome is more alive than ever. For the past decade, the city has been holding the Great Roman Games show every spring. Legionaries, centurions and gladiators invade the city and bring its incredible Roman monuments back to life: in…

The Conversation

What happens to Australia's money now the Queen has died? And why are leaders' faces on coins anyway?

Since the introduction of decimal coinage in 1966, about 15 billion Australian coins have been minted with an image of Queen Elizabeth II.

The Independent UK

Truss insists she wants ‘positive’ campaign after Dorries tweet

Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries retweeted a doctored image of Boris Johnson as Julius Caesar with Rishi Sunak as a knife-wielding assassin.

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Nadine Dorries slammed for sharing 'dangerous' image of Rishi Sunak stabbing Boris Johnson in back

The Culture Secretary retweeted a mocked-up picture of Julius Caesar's assassination, which showed him being stabbed in the back with a knife

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Nadine Dorries’s ‘disturbing’ tweets on Sunak condemned by Tory MPs

Culture secretary’s post portraying Sunak wielding knife at Boris Johnson denounced in light of MPs’ murders

Daily Mirror

Nadine Dorries shares image of Rishi Sunak stabbing Boris Johnson in back with a knife

The Culture Secretary - who is in charge of online safety - was told to 'wind her neck in' after sharing a 'dangerous' mocked-up image of Julius Caesar's assassination... months after an MP was stabbed to death

Daily Mirror

Derek Chisora controversially names Adolf Hitler as one of dream dinner party guests

Chisora, who picked up his first win in almost three years last weekend, gave the response when he was asked who he would invite to a dinner party

Chicago Sun-Times

Baseball quiz: Like a finely tossed salad

We can’t all be Caesar Cardini, who is said to have invented the salad that bears his name, but we all certainly can take this inspired quiz.

Evening Standard

The Standard View: The Prime Minister has done the right thing

The Prime Minister has resigned. He has, finally, accepted the inevitable, that it is impossible for him to continue as head of government when so many of his colleagues have left. He has done the right thing and is departing with some dignity, without having forced his party to defenestrate…

The Guardian - UK

Julius Caesar review – the revolution is rerouted in scattered Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonLess a tense examination of a failing republic, or even of women in power, there is little electricity or danger here

The Guardian - UK

Sad! Is Donald Trump just too boring for a grand Shakespearean makeover?

Bertie Carvel is brilliant in The 47th, Mike Bartlett’s ingenious play about the former US president, but the real parallel is not with the Bard’s kings but his hollow braggarts

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