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World War Two animated: Western Front 1940
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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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The search for DB Cooper
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Pompeii ruins show that the Romans invented recycling
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Microsoft Word now flags two spaces after a period as an error
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Political ships of Theseus | The American party switch
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Johann Hari: You are being lied to about pirates
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Scientists stage sword fights to study Bronze Age warfare
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When monks went undercover to steal relics
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Indonesia bans traditional Ramadan exodus to rein in coronavirus
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Treasure trove of artifacts illustrates life in a lost Viking mountain pass – Lendbreen, in Norway, was an important route from the Roman era until the late Middle Ages
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The death of the Liberal class
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Biden’s free-college plan is a solution in search of a problem
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The animated history of Iceland
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Inhabiting the earth: A new history of raw earth architecture
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Abso-bloody-lutely: Expletive infixation
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How Narendra Modi serves the Hindu ideal of Bharat in opposition to secular ideals of India
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The Pope just proposed a universal basic income. Is the United States ready for it?
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America: 200 years of responding to epidemics from The Saturday Evening Post
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For eleven years, the Soviet Union had no weekends
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Archaeologists discover paintings of goddess in 3,000-year-old mummy's coffin
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Probable Roman shipwrecks unearthed at a Serbian coal mine
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A profound ignorance of nature - Commentary on Neil deGrasse Tyson’s most recent expression of historical illiteracy
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500-year-old manuscript contains earliest known use of the “F-word”
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Cardinal George Pell will be released from prison after the High Court of Australia quashed his child sexual abuse convictions
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How Putin's Russia has become increasingly unstable
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The history of the bulletproof vest
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How epidemics of the past changed the way Americans lived
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The history of a shipwreck that brought Chinese immigrants to the Monterey, California area
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The erosion of deep literacy
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The history of Turkey until Atatürk
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The history of the United States Air Force's hunt for a stealth special operations transport
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Louisiana pastor defies coronavirus order, draws over 1,000 people to services
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This isn't the first time a crisis has come during election year. So how have we dealt with things like this before?
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Doing being rational: polymerase chain reaction
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The great toilet paper scare of 1973
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Why Hitler lost the war: German strategic mistakes in WWII
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The Taisho era and how the Japanese army put an end to it
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How the 1957 flu pandemic was stopped early in its path
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Caesar's Funeral (44 B.C.E.)
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How Americans discussed democracy in the 1930's
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Small colleges were already on the brink. Now, coronavirus threatens their existence
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Birgit Maixner: ‘Place names are like fossils in the landscape. They tell us stories about the past – if we know how to interpret them’
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The US's foreign entanglements
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Five people who were amazingly productive in quarantine
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Sixteen and evangelical
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The flu killed forty million in 1918. Every flu season since is descended from it
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