National Museum of Denmark is handing over an iconic cloak belonging to an indigenous group in Brazil at a ceremony being attended by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
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Weird Weapons: Caged Buckler - Sword trapper
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Uncovered: 428-year-old secret dossier reveals Elizabeth I’s network of spies
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"Sword breakers" were rare and we don't know much about them. How were they used and what were they really for? Two experienced rapier fencers experiment with one to discover more about them.
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Why is there a tiny bit of Italy inside Switzerland?
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Why the Early Modern Period is the most underrated era in European history
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A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps podcast: Patrick Gray on Shakespeare
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Sweden's royal family has taken part in ceremonies marking 500 years since the Scandinavian country emerged as an independent nation
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How codebreakers decrypted a trove of long-lost letters written by Mary, Queen of Scots
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Weird Weapons - 'Bike' chain flail
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Why I teach Machiavelli through his letters
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Mercenary black riders and the evolution of cavalry warfare in the 16th century
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Ottoman Wars - Siege of Buda 1541 and Eger 1552
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Ottoman Wars - Battles of Gorjani and Castelnuovo 1537
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A newly digitized map from 1587 offers a rare glimpse at the way Europeans conceived of the Americas before British colonization
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Two intricate calligraphy pages from the sixteenth-century manuscript “Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta” have been decoded for the first time
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