The etymologies of military ranks
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How ancient soldiers used sound to frighten and confuse their enemies
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Warships of the Carthaginian Navy | Units of History
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A working flight simulator, no computers necessary
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The polyglots of Dardistan - At the crossroads of south and central Asia lies one of the world’s most multilingual places, with songs and poetry to match
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Interesting histories: Female — Male — Woman — Man
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Weird Weapons - 'Bike' chain flail
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When is a ‘tank’ not a tank?
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The Druzhina - Knights of the Kievan Rus | Units of History
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The world’s fastest bomber: The XB-70 Valkyrie
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Roman Cataphracts (1st-5th Century) | Units of History
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Mers el Kebir 1940 - Britain attacks her ally
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What was watchtower duty like on the Roman frontier?
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Avenging Varus - The Roman Germanic Wars
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The Varangian Guard | Units of History
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The jet that terrified the West: The MiG-25 Foxbat
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An extraordinary 500-year-old shipwreck is rewriting the history of the age of discovery
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WWII animated: Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-1941
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The SAS Iranian Embassy siege, 1980 - Animated
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Part of a Spitfire which was shot down over Norway during World War II has gone on display after being restored
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George Washington and the first mass US military inoculation
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The Macedonian Argyraspides (silver shields) | Units of History
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The Roman invasion of Nubia (24 BC) | Forgotten Wars
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What if the Morgenthau plan was implemented in Germany after the end of WW2?
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Why Hitler was obsessed with Iceland
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We've been telling the Alamo story wrong for nearly 200 years. Now it's time to correct the record
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Battle of Savo Island 1942: America's worst naval defeat
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Avenging Varus and the loss at Teutoburg Forest - Battle of the Long Bridges (15 AD)
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WW2 animated: Western Front, 1944-1945. Part 1
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Battle of Drøbak Sound, 1940 - "Either I will be decorated or court martialed. Fire!"
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The 1962 flight of Army Rangers that vanished into thin air
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The legendary Commando raid at St. Nazaire | The greatest raid of all time
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The plan to kill Osama bin Laden—from the spycraft to the assault to its bizarre political backdrop—as told by the people in the room
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The Speculatores: Spies of the Roman Army | Units of History
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Why measuring the impact of Lend-Lease is so difficult
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Pacific Series part 1/5: Why attacking Pearl Harbor was the least bad option Japan had
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The USAAF intercepts and shoots down Admiral Yamamoto, 1943 - Animated
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What if the war of 1812 had a victor?
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Germany's plans to win WW1
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The final days and dissolution of Austria-Hungary
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José Epita Mbomo: The Spanish electrician who sabotaged the Nazis
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An Irish soldier describes World War One (1988)
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Animated history: 1943 - 1945 Invasion of Italy (Video collage)
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The long history of warrior turtles, from ancient myth to warships to teenage mutants
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Richard Feynman and the bomb
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How Rome destroyed its own republic
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How to revive a dead language: Although it was the language of sacred texts and ritual, modern Hebrew wasn’t spoken in conversation till the late nineteenth century
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The father of modern warfare – the military reforms of Gustavus Adolphus' changed the face of European warfare
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How did the Qing dynasty collapse? The Xinhai revolution explained
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That Downfall scene explained: What is Hitler freaking out about?
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