Varangians - Elite bodyguards of the Byzantine emperors
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This land is whose land? Indian country and the shortcomings of settler protest.
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When the Māori first settled New Zealand, they hunted flightless, 500-pound birds
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X is for…
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Nero: The last Roman emperor
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The suburban uncanny
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Kyshtym: The nuclear disaster that was kept secret for thirty years
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Cyprus Crisis 1974
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What international coverage of Tiananmen got wrong
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Germany: 1,000-year-old sarcophagus opened in Mainz
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The world’s oldest medieval map
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Siege of Damascus 634 AD: Arab - Byzantine Wars Documentary
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A Japanese American newspaper chronicles the ‘searing’ history of immigrant incarceration
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'Where was the Lord?': On Jefferson Davis' birthday, nine slave testimonies
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Classified maps and documents reveal the careful planning that went into the D-Day invasion, as Allied commanders orchestrated how to begin liberating Europe from Nazi tyranny.
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Atomic veterans were silenced for fifty Years. Now, they’re talking.
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The birth of science in a darkened room: The father of modern optics could not have succeeded had he not feigned madness
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11,000-year-old Turkish town about to be submerged forever
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Muslims of early America: Muslims came to America more than a century before Protestants, and in great numbers. How was their history forgotten?
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Budj Bim indigenous eel trap site on verge of world heritage listing
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The Voynich Manuscript may have successfully been decoded
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The Terror
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Dinosaur diplomacy: Andrew Carnegie thought fossils could save Europe from World War I
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Two kinds of freedom
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Why Plymouth has a population of zero, despite being the de jure capital of Montserrat
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Britain's equivalent to Tutankhamun found in Southend-on-Sea
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The history of the Black radical group MOVE and its infamous bombing by police
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The sad tale of Frank Olson, the US Government's hallucinogen fall man
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Mankind, unite!
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Can you spot a map trap? | Map Men
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'It could change everything': Coin found off northern Australia may be from pre-1400 Africa
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10 things I learned about ancient China from studying Chinese characters
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The Hitler industrial complex: Why Adolf Hitler is everywhere
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A revolution in time - Once local and irregular, time-keeping became universal and linear in 311 BCE
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Ancient rock art in the plains of India: Two amateur sleuths have uncovered a collection of mysterious rock carvings on the Indian coastal plain south of Mumbai
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Siege of Jerusalem 70 AD - Great Jewish revolt
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Elephant Man: Joseph Merrick's grave 'found by author'
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‘Deep Sleep’: How an amateur porno set off a massive Federal witch hunt
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Froebel’s gifts
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Out of the cradle - a high quality, short, cgi film series about human prehistory
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An Election Held Hostage? - 1991
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Indigenous educators fight for an accurate history of California
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No Spanish allowed: Texas school museum revisits history of segregation
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The birth of cheap communication (and junk mail)
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Irving Finkel | The Ark Before Noah: A Great Adventure
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Apartheid ended twenty-five years ago. How has South Africa changed?
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How the US military's opium war in Afghanistan was lost
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Goodbye, show world: The last days of Times Square’s peep shows
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The longest year in human history (46 BCE)
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The spoil of mariners
6 votes