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3 votes
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The history of Scottish independence from the Roman era to the Jacobite revolts, the 2014 referendum, and Brexit
7 votes -
Ignorance, a skilled practice
5 votes -
The deadliest disaster in maritime history happened seventy-five years ago this week: Thousands of German citizens and soldiers fleeing the Soviet army died when the “Wilhelm Gustloff” sank
4 votes -
Why was Singapore kicked out of Malaysia?
3 votes -
On the 200th anniversary of his death, George III’s collection of more than 3,000 military maps, views and prints in the Royal Collection have been made publicly available online
5 votes -
Cod war tensions with Iceland – British trawlers, bunched together as they are, make easy prey for Icelandic gunboats in 1976
3 votes -
Infiltrating Scientology
9 votes -
Which religion is friendliest to the idea of aliens?
4 votes -
The Muslim world’s question: ‘What happened to us?’
5 votes -
How Iran's Qassem Soleimani became a US target
4 votes -
Why religion is not going away and science will not destroy it
15 votes -
The white lie we've been told about Roman statues
17 votes -
What Americans know about the Holocaust: Fewer than half can correctly answer multiple-choice questions about the number of Jews who were murdered or the way Adolf Hitler came to power
20 votes -
The Hamilton Hustle
5 votes -
Ronald Reagan’s “October Surprise” plot was real after all
16 votes -
A shipwreck off Florida’s coast pits archaeologists against treasure hunters
4 votes -
Martin Luther King Jr: "Why I am opposed to the war in Vietnam", April 30, 1967, Riverside Church, New York
11 votes -
The pirate radio broadcaster who occupied Alcatraz and terrified the FBI
11 votes -
A showdown is looming between Spain’s conservative language academy and its newly elected socialist government over proposals to rewrite the nation’s constitution using gender-neutral language
16 votes -
Snowdrift at Bleath Gill
5 votes -
Prohibition was a failed experiment in moral governance
13 votes -
Mark Blyth - So can we have it all?
4 votes -
US torpedo troubles during World War II
7 votes -
Sámi are the only officially recognised indigenous people in the EU and some of their languages are on the brink of extinction
12 votes -
Free market or socialism: Have economists really anything to say?
7 votes -
Sweden's Rök runestone reveals inscriptions were as much about climate change fears as they were the history of ancient battles
9 votes -
Tae Kim's guide to learning Japanese
15 votes -
The animated history of Japan
9 votes -
A scandal in Oxford: The curious case of the stolen gospel
7 votes -
The Dogma of Otherness (1986)
6 votes -
Teaching in the US vs. the rest of the world
12 votes -
How the US helped create El Salvador’s bloody gang war
5 votes -
Are there any historical events, periods, figures or concepts that you find underrated?
My personal picks would be the whole of Chinese history between the opium wars and communist rule (or the century of humiliation as it is called), and most especially the warlord era, given that...
My personal picks would be the whole of Chinese history between the opium wars and communist rule (or the century of humiliation as it is called), and most especially the warlord era, given that this was effectively how European powers, Japan and many internal revolutionaries managed to bring down the greatest economy in the world to civil war and then total warlordism for 40 years. For a vague concept, my pick would be the great divergence, the period where the US and European nations rose above the rest of the world and became the predominant world powers and colonized most of it, along with the many potential causes of this.
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How to fail at democracy 101: The Weimar Republic
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The dognapping of poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog Flush in 1846, and how she negotiated for his safe return just before secretly eloping with Robert Browning
8 votes -
The parable of the pebbles
5 votes -
India and Pakistan: A continuing story
9 votes -
Mysterious disappearance of Greenland's medieval Norse society in the 15th century came after walruses were hunted almost to extinction, researchers have said
4 votes -
In the 1980s, a far-left, female-led domestic terrorism group bombed the US capitol
9 votes -
What the Gulf: Blood and oil
4 votes -
United Methodist Church announces plan to split over gay marriage, LGBTQ clergy
17 votes -
Anyone here practicing Zazen?
I recently finished "Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind" by Shunryu Suzuki and was deeply moved. I've meditated sporadically over the years and dabbled in various Buddhist traditions yet never have I been...
I recently finished "Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind" by Shunryu Suzuki and was deeply moved. I've meditated sporadically over the years and dabbled in various Buddhist traditions yet never have I been so taken with an approach as I was after reading this. If there is anybody out there practicing Sōtō Zen would you be able to recommend anything to read next?
14 votes -
How a Chase Bank chairman helped the deposed shah of Iran enter the US
5 votes -
The case of Leopold and Loeb
4 votes -
Sweden dodged a bullet by not building this nuclear submarine – the reactor had an insufficient amount of nuclear shielding
5 votes -
Nothing defines the 2010s
3 votes -
The Principle of Charitable Interpretation
13 votes -
How this abandoned mining town in Greenland helped win World War II
5 votes -
Wars of the Roses 1455-1487 - English Civil Wars
4 votes