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We found French underwear in an ancient Sumerian city | Girsu Project | Curator's Corner S10 Ep4
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On 8 March, 1910 Raymonde de Laroche became the world's first licensed female pilot
I don't really have any cool articles about de Laroche besides the Wikipedia page on her, but it is quite good and a shortish read, so very worthwhile. There is also this short article from the...
I don't really have any cool articles about de Laroche besides the Wikipedia page on her, but it is quite good and a shortish read, so very worthwhile. There is also this short article from the University of Houston, complete with a 3-minute audio version.
The week of 8 March is also International Women of Aviation Week, celebrating all the female aviators (people are getting away from using gender-specific words like aviatrix that weren't necessary in English anyway), including Jacqueline Cochran, the wartime head of Women Airforce Service Pilots in the U.S. and who would go on to be the first woman to break the sound barrier; Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman, the first African-American and Native American woman aviator and presumably the first licensed female pilot of mixed race to participate in air races and barnstorming stunt shows across the U.S. and Europe; Leah Hing, the first Chinese-American female pilot and who started her own flight school after the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931; among many other women past and present who are earning their pilot's license.
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How France uncovered the mystery of the forbidden photos of Nazi-occupied Paris
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Coinage and the tyranny of fantasy ‘gold’
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Archaeological dig at Notre-Dame unearths 2,000 years of history
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Divers find remains of Finnish World War II plane that was shot down by Moscow with a US diplomat aboard
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In the 1600s Sweden was a great military power – why did they decline?
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Les atomes
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Why is there a tiny bit of Italy inside Switzerland?
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The case against Charles Darwin: How the investigation into a grisly murder shocked 19th-century France and framed the scientist as an accomplice
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Eastern Front of WW1 animated: 1914
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Unlocking the mystery of Paris' most secret underground society
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Free Companies: The age of mercenary companies
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Why did Google Maps have a big black smudge in the South Pacific before 2012? And why did it disappear? And what does it have to do with Captain Cook? And what is a phantom island? | Map Men
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France plans mobile school force after headteacher resigns over death threats
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The Greenwich meridian's forgotten rival
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Notes on the Ivory Coast
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Many prehistoric handprints show a finger missing. Canadian scientists say evidence shows digits may have been ritually removed to appease deities or aid social cohesion.
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Rise of Napoleon's Old Guard (1789-1803) (part 1) | Units of History
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Journey to EPCOT Center: A symphonic history
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No rides, but lots of rows: ‘reactionary’ French theme park plots expansion
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Pope in Marseille: Migration must be addressed with humanity, solidarity
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French state schools turn away dozens of girls wearing Muslim abaya dress
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The miniature France inside France
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"Abraham Lincoln" street in Nogales, Sonora
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The campaign in the desert of North Africa in 1940-1943 mapped
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Democracy is the solution to vetocracy
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France’s baby bust
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How codebreakers decrypted a trove of long-lost letters written by Mary, Queen of Scots
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The treadmill/treadwheel crane sounds like something from Astérix or the Flintstones. But at Guédelon in France, not only do they have one, they're using it to help build their brand new castle.
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The true history of the Knights Templar with Dan Jones
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How the French Foreign Legion learns languages fast
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You're not allowed in this cave. But there's a copy.
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Why Belgium (still) exists
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How a spectacular piece of pedantry created an international enclave
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Mers el Kebir 1940 - Britain attacks her ally
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French Catholics agree to sell property to compensate abuse victims
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At least 216,000 children were victims of sexual assault by the French Catholic Church
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How Michel Foucault was shielded from scandal by French reverence for intellectuals
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Peace...? (1814)
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Circulus theory: How one man wanted to save the world by taxing its poop
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The legendary Commando raid at St. Nazaire | The greatest raid of all time
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What each nation wanted from the scramble for Africa vs what they got from it
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Germany's plans to win WW1
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A plane without wings: The story of the C.450 Coléoptère
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Amid a crackdown on ‘separatism’, how do French Muslims feel?
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How triangles shrank France and the first modern map | Map Men
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"Brilliant" plans to win WW2: How France planned to win the war against Nazi Germany
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How the ballpoint pen killed cursive
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