Weird Weapons - The Mangual, or two handed chain flail. Used extensively in Spain and Portugal from around 1400 -1650.
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The Florentine Diamond resurfaces after 100 years in hiding. Legendary jewel of the Habsburgs not seen since 1919 and thought lost, has actually been safe in a Canadian bank for decades. (gifted link)
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How generations of meddlesome public health campaigns changed everyday life — and made life twice as long as it used to be
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Four strange places to see London’s Roman wall
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“The Edmund Fitzgerald - First divers on the Fitz”
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Hermann and Albert Göring: Two very different brothers
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The almost forgotten Japanese-American truce at Aka
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Road map of the Roman Empire
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The real truth about the Tudor succession comes to light
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Swedish fisherman digging for worms stumbles upon cache of silver coins, beads, rings and pendants dating to the 12th century
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Can a professional javelin thrower master this ancient weapon (atlatl)?
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Doomsday scoreboard
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This is not a ruined cottage | The Druridge Bay ruin
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How the Dutch deleted the sea... and got rich! | Map Men
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The entire history of cat memes
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What it takes to be a revolutionary war enactor
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How America nearly forged a different path in 1916
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How Rockefeller and his partners built Standard Oil
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Lighthouse of Alexandria rises again: giant blocks resurface after 2,000 years
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Monumental rock art illustrates that humans thrived in the Arabian Desert during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition
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Ancient Historian reviews Monty Python's Life of Brian | Deep Dives
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The neo-Victorian neo-nazi lesbian BDSM cult that made video games
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Voices of the Manhattan Project: Peggy Bowditch’s interview
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For more than ten years, experts have been painstakingly planning to move three 1,000-year-old vessels—the Oseberg, Gokstad and Tune—about 115 yards to their new home in Oslo
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The British empire’s role in ending slavery worldwide
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Was this English queen a 'predatory' collector of beautiful things?
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Indira Gandhi's emergency: When India's democracy was put on pause
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Russian Civil War, Winter 1917-1918
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In 1975, Swedish socialists and unions devised a program to democratically seize the means of production, but terrified elites dismantled it
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Denmark's National Museum unveils gaming piece which is believed to be the first portrait of a Viking – figurine depicts man with imperial moustache, braided beard and a neatly-groomed hairstyle
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The ancient Roman alternative to daylight saving time; An hour was not a consistent unit of time. In the summer it could be as long as 75 minutes and in the winter it sometimes lasted just 45 minutes.
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Researchers uncover Stone Age settlement submerged by rising sea levels in Denmark
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Medieval Europeans were fanatical about a strange fruit with a vulgar name that could only be eaten rotten. Then it was forgotten altogether. Why did they love it so much? And why did it disappear?
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Viking longship to sail through Tower Bridge – the Saga Farmann departed Tønsberg in Norway and has been sailing around Europe (with a few land transport gaps)
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How arrogance destroys armies - overconfidence and the road to military failure
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The man who ran a carnival attraction that saved thousands of premature babies wasn’t a doctor at all
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Life and death aboard a B-17, 1944
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The mystery of Winston Churchill's dead platypus was unsolved - until now
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A 100,000-year-old burial site in Israel is changing what we know about early humans
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The rise and fall of the Hanseatic League
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The mysteries of Roman inscriptions are being solved with a new AI tool
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We found French underwear in an ancient Sumerian city | Girsu Project | Curator's Corner S10 Ep4
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The cure for scurvy, forgotten
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Scientists built a canoe using only prehistoric tools. Then they sailed the dangerous 140-mile route early humans traveled 30,000 years ago.
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The deportation campaigns of the Great Depression
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The American civil-military relationship
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James Earl Jones reading Frederick Douglass’ speech about the 4th of July
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Mexico's butterfly warriors: Day of the Dead?
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AI’s ability to read and summarize is making it a useful tool for scholarship
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The Faroe Islands are the only country that celebrates their World War II occupation
8 votes