Jonestown’s victims have a lesson to teach us, so I listened
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A toy monkey that escaped Nazi Germany and reunited a family
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Who’s behind that beard? Historians are using facial recognition software to identify people in Civil War photographs
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Rediscovering Ancient Greek music
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Becoming Anne Frank - Why did we turn an isolated teenage girl into the world’s most famous Holocaust victim?
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Bonfire of the humanities: The role of history in a society afflicted by short-termism
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One hundred years on, the scars from World War I linger on Australia's streets and in our psyche.
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At 63, I threw away my prized portrait of Robert E. Lee
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The Gauls really did embalm the severed heads of enemies, research shows
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Found: The earliest European image of Aboriginal Australians
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The Roman pomerium
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American Nazis in the 1930s—The German American Bund
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The myth of whiteness in classical sculpture
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The elusive foolproof theory of the origin of language
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From the liberty cap to the pussy hat: A history of radical objects
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The oldest true stories in the world
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Eureka Stockade rebellion
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The pyramid scheme that collapsed a nation
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The suffocation of American democracy
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Greece's geography problem
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Archaeologists have just unearthed an inscription in Pompeii that suggests the Ancient Roman city might have been destroyed a full two months later than previously thought
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A history of true civilisation is not one of monuments
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Elections in Ancient Rome | How They Did It
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The Death of Stalin
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Germany's plans to win WWI
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For 1,500 years, Western Europe ‘forgot’ how to swim, retreating from the water in terror. The return to swimming is a lesser-known triumph of the Enlightenment.
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Dirty dishes reveal what ancient civilizations ate. Food scraps on 8,000-year-old ceramic shards found in Turkey include barley, wheat, peas, and bitter vetch.
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The Reykjavik Confessions
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How the English failed to stamp out the Scots language
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World's first sci-fi convention (Royal Albert Hall, 1891)
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How the first ever telecoms scam worked
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The White Headhunter: The story of a 19th-century sailor who survived a South Seas heart of darkness
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Was Hitler a socialist? A response to a common argument
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Cleopatra and the Siege of Alexandria (48 to 47 B.C.E.)
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The surprisingly not totally boring search for who invented the spring bar
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Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963)
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HMB Endeavour found: One of the greatest maritime mysteries of all time solved
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“I now know what it’s like to have A 110-story building come down on my head.”
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Occitan, the language the French forbade
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Allende’s last speech
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George Orwell: Why socialists don't believe in fun
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The big squeeze: Sicily’s mafia sprang from the growing global market for lemons – a tale with sour parallels for consumers today
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1600s Native American fort is one of the most important Northeast finds
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A band of Polish mathematicians figured out much about how German Enigma encoding machines operated, years before Alan Turing did
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WW2 Eastern Front animated: 1942
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How to change the course of human history
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I survived the Warsaw ghetto. Here are the lessons I’d like to pass on
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How Petrus Gonsalvus made it into the French royal court and married Lady Catherine to live out the real Beauty and the Beast story.
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How two thieves stole thousands of prints from university libraries
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What does a nuclear bomb explosion feel like?
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