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Early warnings: How American journalists reported the rise of Hitler
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Ə: The most common vowel sound in English
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Authoritarian breakdown -- how dictators fall | Dr. Natasha Ezrow
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The insane engineering of the A-10 Warthog
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Pandemic escape: Volunteers transcribe Sally Ride’s papers, Rosa Parks’s recipes, Walt Whitman’s poems
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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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Roe of “Roe v. Wade” says Christian right paid her to be anti-choice mouthpiece
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Oceania explained
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Huey Long, the dictator of Louisiana
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Rhodes Center Podcast: The First Globalist — Sandy Zipp Talks Wendell Willkie’s World
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The Hongerwinter: How famine under the Nazis revealed the cause of celiac disease
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The coming disruption - Scott Galloway predicts a handful of elite universities and tech companies will soon monopolize higher education
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Imperialism is using up the resources that could fight Covid-19
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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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The vampire problem: Illustrating the paradox of transformative experience
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Why did GE Moore disappear from history?
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The great 5G conspiracy - Part of a series on conspiracy thinking in America
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Whataboutism
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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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How a leftist cartoonist’s college campus drawing nearly became a far-right meme
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May 13th, 1985: The day Philadelphia police bombed a city street, leaving 250 homeless and eleven dead, including five children
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The Swiss at war: Bellicose Swiss and an ambitious Duke - The Burgundian Wars Pt. 1
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Danish Lutheran minister who attracted international attention by proclaiming that there is no God or afterlife, but retracted after being suspended, has died
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Did the Foederati end the Roman Empire?
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Children growing up after this crisis will use far more oral language after it ends
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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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Charles Coughlin, the 'Radio Priest' who brought fascism to America in the 1930s (1979)
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The cost of free doughnuts: Seventy years of regret
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What's so special about Viking ships? | Jan Bill
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Who invented the wheel? And how did they do it?
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Norway's social-democratic compromise doesn't owe to some eternal national character – it was a product of the revolutionary struggles of the interwar period
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The mysterious erdstall
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A big little idea called legibility
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Mark Blyth - A brief history of how we got here and why
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How the Kent State massacre marked the start of America's polarization
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Why were notched wood sticks so important in medieval times?
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Explorer, navigator, coloniser: Revisit Captain Cook’s legacy with the click of a mouse
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Today (29th April 2020) is the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook's landing at Botany Bay (Kamay)
250 years ago, Captain James Cook and his ship the HMS Endeavour landed at Kamay (Botany Bay) on the eastern coast of Australia. He was in the middle of a months-long exploration of the eastern...
250 years ago, Captain James Cook and his ship the HMS Endeavour landed at Kamay (Botany Bay) on the eastern coast of Australia. He was in the middle of a months-long exploration of the eastern coast. His crew first spotted the Australian mainland on 11th April 1770, and they left Australian waters after taking possession of the continent in the name of King George III on 22nd August.
This was not the first visitation of Australia by Europeans. That honour goes to Dutch sailor Willem Janszoon in his ship the Duyfken in 1606. Dutch & Portuguese sailors & traders continued to visit the north and west coasts for the next couple of centuries. They called the continent "New Holland".
But Cook represented the first European power to assume possession of the continent. 18 years later, the English sent their First Fleet of convict ships to the land of New South Wales.
250 years since Captain Cook arrived in Australia, his legacy remains fraught
What Australians often get wrong about our most (in)famous explorer, Captain Cook
For Indigenous people, Cook's voyage of 'discovery' was a ghostly visitation
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"Old King Cole was a merry old soul" - and possibly a real king in post-Roman Britain
I'm reading a book called 'British Kings & Queens', and there's a mention of a king called Coelius, who may have been the inspiration for the nursery rhyme 'Old King Cole'. I've done some research...
I'm reading a book called 'British Kings & Queens', and there's a mention of a king called Coelius, who may have been the inspiration for the nursery rhyme 'Old King Cole'.
I've done some research and found this local history about "Coel Hen (the Old) aka Coelius (of Ayrshire)" (sadly, the accompanying pictures seem to have disappeared).
He seems to have been in power around the early 400s A.D. - about the time that the Romans exited Britain. His domain included Ayrshire in modern-day Scotland.
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Microsoft Word now flags two spaces after a period as an error
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The search for DB Cooper
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Pompeii ruins show that the Romans invented recycling
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