Mikhail Gorbachev's Pizza Hut ad is his most bizarre legacy, and tells the story of his attempt to find—and to fund—a place in a country that wanted nothing more to do with him
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Mount Erebus disaster: The plane crash that changed New Zealand
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Researchers used skeletal remains and ancient DNA to reconstruct the burial of a woman who lived in what is now southern Sweden 7,000 years ago
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This island of Minos: Crete in the Bronze Age
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Medieval Myth Busting - Arrows vs Armour, using historically accurate reproductions from time of the Battle of Agincourt (1415)
MEDIEVAL MYTH BUSTING - Arrows vs Armour from Tod's Workshop YouTube Channel Other extra videos in the series: Find out More - The Battle Find out more - The Armour Find out More - Medieval Arrows...
MEDIEVAL MYTH BUSTING - Arrows vs Armour from Tod's Workshop YouTube Channel
Other extra videos in the series:
Find out More - The Battle
Find out more - The Armour
Find out More - Medieval Arrowsedit: Tod also re-uploaded the previous video with better sound:
Find out More - Medieval Arrows*12 votes -
The shoals of Ukraine - Where American illusions and great-power politics collide
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Correcting the historical bias against domestic materials
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Instant stone (just add water!)
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Behind Hong Kong’s resolve: Locals’ view of a city under siege
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The case of the shotgun booby trap
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Slot Machine - A British Pathé short film about vending machines in 1960s Britain
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The drowned lands of the Wallkill
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Swedish maritime archaeologists have discovered two wrecks believed to be 17th-century warships – one of which is likely to be the sister ship of the Vasa
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Denmark and Iceland clash over priceless medieval manuscripts – Reykjavik wants collection bequeathed by Icelandic scholar returned
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Book Review: Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
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How a cargo ship helped win WW2: The Liberty Ship story
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The extraordinary story of Joy Whitehead - female soldier of the first world war
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How did the US Navy win the Battle of Midway?
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China's ancient dominance, how the West took it away from China and how China is regaining it
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Nara: Sacred images from early Japan
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The massacre that spawned the alt-right
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How Britain dishonoured its African first world war dead
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The first transatlantic telegraph cable was a bold, beautiful failure
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The 1619 Project by the New York Times
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The most gender-switched names in US history
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Killing time during the Trojan War with Ajax and Achilles
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Iron: From mythical to mundane
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How skeletons of WWI ships came to rest in the Potomac
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Medieval Fighting Techniques - Mounted vs Foot (Lance vs Polearm & Sword)
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Machiavelli I – S.P.Q.F. (Begins Machiavelli Series)
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Martyr of Verdun: Émile Driant's Command Post
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Papers behind the pistol: Mauser's archives on the Model 1910
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The assassination of Julius Caesar (The Ides of March, 44 B.C.E.)
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4,000-year-old mummies showed early signs of heart disease
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Thousand year old 12cm-long iron arrowhead was found high up in the mountains near Eidfjord in Norway
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MI6 accused of thwarting efforts to solve the 1961 killing of UN chief Dag Hammarskjöld
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The Oracle of Delphi - Chapter 1: The Center of the World
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The Wave that changed the world
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The awkward questions about slavery from tourists in the US South
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Samuel Morland, Magister Mechanicorum
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Sweden marks 25th anniversary of Estonia ferry disaster – some survivors and relatives want an independent international inquiry into the 1994 accident
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The unlikeliest cult in history
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Down to seven vets, Pearl Harbor survivors' group in California holds final meeting
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The life and work of Lady Hale
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Raoul Wallenberg is thought to have saved as many as 30,000 Jews but his descendants do not know how, when or why he died
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West Zealand has given the green light to rebuild a Viking fortress on its original archaeological site, more than 1,000 years after it first stood there
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When a newspaper started a town: The story of Lake Michigan Beach
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A bronze cauldron dating back to the Roman Age has been unearthed in a burial cairn in central Norway
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CGP Grey: The Race to Win Staten Island
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How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely?
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