Carthaginian war elephants | Units of History
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Judges gone wild! The Florida Supreme Court scandals of the 1970s make today’s political circus look tame by comparison
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The history of philosophy in global context: three case studies
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Vast neolithic circle of deep shafts found near Stonehenge
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The intelligence of earthworms
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The history of Coney Island
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Eugène François Vidocq
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How the coronavirus compares with 100 years of deadly events
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Black Death, COVID, and why we keep telling the myth of a Renaissance Golden Age and bad Middle Ages
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Last person to receive an American Civil War pension dies
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The case for reparations: We've had 250 years of slavery, 90 years of Jim Crow, 60 years of separate but equal and 35 years of racist housing policy. Without addressing this, the US can't move on
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Oldest and largest Maya structure discovered in southern Mexico
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Report reveals Rio Tinto knew the significance of 46,000-year-old rock caves six years before it blasted them
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Zettelkasten — How one German scholar was so freakishly productive
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John Titor
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How 1960s black protests moved elites, public opinion and voting
@owasow: For 15 years, I've been studying 1960s civil rights protests with particular attention to how nonviolent and violent actions by activists & police influence media, elites, public opinion & voters. I'm thrilled some of that work was published last week. 1/ https://t.co/zzvvPTcgoP
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How conspiracy theories fueled the US civil war
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Underwater aircraft carriers: Imperial Japan’s secret weapon
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"[R]iots do not develop out of thin air. [...] in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard." MLK, Jr., 1967
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Subutai: Genghis Khan’s demon dog of war
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Early warnings: How American journalists reported the rise of Hitler
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The insane engineering of the A-10 Warthog
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How white backlash controls American progress: Backlash dynamics are one of the defining patterns of the country’s history
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The Kentucky miner who scammed Americans by claiming he was Hitler and plotting a ‘revolt’ with ‘spaceships’
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Oceania explained
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Huey Long, the dictator of Louisiana
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Africa’s biggest collection of ancient human footprints has been found
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In defense of hellfire: The rhetoric of damnation has been lost. But how else can we adequately condemn injustice?
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The mysterious religion of Carthage
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World War Two animated: Western Front 1940
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Cicero's Finest Hour (44 to 43 B.C.E.)
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Why did GE Moore disappear from history?
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An Oxford professor, an evangelical collector, and a missing gospel of Mark: A scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment, now faces allegations of theft, cover-up, and fraud
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The Swiss at war: Bellicose Swiss and an ambitious Duke - The Burgundian Wars Pt. 1
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Did the Foederati end the Roman Empire?
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The real Lord of the Flies: What happened when six boys were shipwrecked for fifteen months
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The hunt for the German battleship Tirpitz, '42-44
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Confronting the colonial legacies of museum collections
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Rare 200-year-old clay pipe depicting thylacine dubbed the 'holy grail' of Tasmanian archaeology
Key points: A clay pipe found in a bottle dump in Launceston appears to show one of the earliest recorded European depictions of a Tasmanian tiger It is believed to be at least 190 years old and...
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A clay pipe found in a bottle dump in Launceston appears to show one of the earliest recorded European depictions of a Tasmanian tiger
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It is believed to be at least 190 years old and handcrafted out of river clay by a local
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Adding to the mystery of the pipe is the depiction of a kookaburra, which were were not introduced to Tasmania until 1902
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-08/rare-clay-pipe-depicts-tasmanian-tiger/12215284
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