"It was known as Sankta Sophia or Santa Sophia. It was the most massive church of the Eastern Roman Empire and the emp…"

"The rapidity with which Mustapha Kemal Ataturk rid himself of his parsons makes one of the most remarkable chapters i…"

"Close to the eastern or Bangalore gate stood formerly a Hindu temple with a prakara wall and a verandah running aroun…"

"…there stood a Hindu temple, the area or space round which was large. The Sultan, therefore, in his infancy being lik…"

"Kirmani writes: [The Fakir said:] ‘Fortunate child, at a future time thou wilt be the king of this country, and when …"

"Mortality, behold and fear! What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones Sleep within this heap of stones."

"On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey."

"As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals,…"

"Westminster Abbey is nature crystallized into a conventional form by man, with his sorrows, his joys, his failures, a…"

"Its very name ‘Adhai Din Ka Jhopra would seem to point directly to the astonishing rapidity of its erection, and as t…"