Plans to change the Coast of Arms design were announced in August ... Pinta and Santa Maria ships, with which 15th century explorer Christopher Columbus was recorded as having encountered the ...

On December 20 2024, Denmark’s king, Frederik X, proclaimed a significant, but not unexpected, update to the royal coat of arms ... were abandoned by the 15th century. Approximately a century ...

Muslim traders introduced other citrus varieties including sour oranges, pomelos and limes to Africa and Europe in the 10th century, while the sweet orange arrived in Europe in the 15th century.

Waffles are one of the oldest treats. The history of waffles goes back to ancient Greece and a type of bread called obleios ...

The House of Medici was an Italian banking family that rose to become one of the most powerful political families … Continue ...

Man, do not worry so much / and do not endure such pain; / if you do not have as much as Jacques Coeur, / it is better to ...

After my column last year, ‘Thank you, pan minister’ in which I ‘thanked’ Prime Minister Dr Rowley for the ill-timed, ill-thought decision to redesign our coat of arms, I never intended to ...

After turning Charles VII's head in the 1440s, Agnès Sorel became his mistress and close advisor as well the era's great ...

The new king of Denmark has changed the country’s royal coat of arms to more prominently feature Greenland in an apparent rebuke of President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to take over the ...

In late December, by "royal resolution," in an announcement that appears to have gone largely unnoticed until this week the king updated the Danish royal coat of arms. Why Trump wants Greenland ...

Frederik, 56, started 2025 by sharing Denmark's heavily revised royal coat of arms on New Year’s Day. The three crowns of the Kalmar Union—which existed from 1397 to 1523 and consisted of the ...

Previous royal coats of arms have shown three crowns ... has been politically and culturally tied to Denmark for over a century, and the population of Greenland has never shown a serious desire ...