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1 week ago

Neolithic dog tooth bags found in Germany

Elaborately decorated bags with dog teeth were discovered in Neolithic women's graves, indicating elite social status in Corded Ware Culture.
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13 hours ago

I Never Cared Much for Swords. Then I Had to Fight with One | The Walrus

Historical fencing, or Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA), seeks to recreate the combat styles of the Middle Ages to the early modern era, emphasizing realism in training.
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4 days ago

How Nazism ended centuries of Catholic-Protestant enmity | Aeon Essays

The enmity between Catholics and Protestants, known as the two confessions, had been one of the organising principles of European life for over four centuries.
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fromWorld History Encyclopedia
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The Transatlantic Zeppelins: A Golden Age of Air Travel

Transatlantic Zeppelins offered luxury travel in the 1920s and 1930s, ending after the Hindenburg disaster in 1937.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

New book sheds light on Lincoln's misunderstood killer: he's not that person at all'

Ellsworth recognized historical parallels between the divided United States of today and the 1850s and 1860s, prompting him to explore Lincoln's assassination as a key story.
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fromNature
2 days ago

'Controlled chaos': how to create an environment that fosters genius

In the 1930s, Ulam, Banach, and Steinhaus gathered at the Scottish Cafe in Lviv, discussing and documenting their mathematical ideas on marble tabletops.
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3 days ago

Update on sealed Etruscan tomb

Discovery of a 7th century B.C. Etruscan tomb in San Giuliano reveals extensive burial goods and exceptional preservation.
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fromMetro Silicon Valley | Silicon Valley's Leading Weekly
2 days ago

The Revolution Will Be Digitized

The film, A Huey P. Newton Story, based on his 1966 creation of the BPP's "A 10-Point Plan for Social Reform," went on to win multiple awards. Fredrika Newton realized that this invaluable cache of materials needed to be preserved and archived.
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2 days ago

Pay a visit to the 400-year old Kedermister Library

The Kedermister Library, founded around 1613, is a historical treasure located in St Mary's Church, featuring over 300 books, including an 11th-century manuscript on loan to the British Library.
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2 days ago

What happened when the Trinity test bomb detonated, from the creation of green glass to fallout that drifted over 1,000 miles

The heat was 10,000 times hotter than the sun's surface, completely vaporizing instrument-containing balloons tethered to the tower. The tower disintegrated as well.
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fromWorld History Encyclopedia
4 days ago

Herod the Great's Building Program

Herod's grand building program included major works at Caesarea Maritima, Jerusalem, Herodium, Samaria, Jericho, and desert fortresses, spanning from 35 to 10 BCE.
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fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 days ago

How were babies' mass graves discovered in church-run home in Ireland?

The excavation in Tuam, which has begun, will uncover the remains of about 800 unidentified infants and young children buried in mass graves for over 65 years.
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fromPsychology Today
4 days ago

History as Story; Story as History

History comes alive through stories. These narratives not only preserve facts but also represent shared values and teach us who we are and aspire to be.
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4 days ago

Hungary's oldest library is fighting to save 100,000 books from a beetle infestation

The drugstore beetle, also known as the bread beetle, is often found among dried foodstuffs like grains, flour and spices. But they also are attracted to the gelatin and starch-based adhesives found in books.
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fromIndependent
4 days ago

DJ Carey poses diplomatic dilemma for GAA as disgraced star due for All-Ireland final honour in Croke Park

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fromWorld History Encyclopedia
1 week ago

Emma of Normandy

Emma of Normandy was a key figure in English politics for nearly 50 years, serving as wife to King Aethelred the Unready and later to King Cnut.
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24 Vintage Photos That Perfectly Capture the Early to the Mid-1940s

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24 Vintage Photos That Perfectly Capture the Early to the Mid-1940s

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24 Vintage Photos That Perfectly Capture the Early to the Mid-1940s

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24 Vintage Photos That Perfectly Capture the Early to the Mid-1940s

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5 days ago

The First World War, in Sharp Focus

"So much misery, mud, murder, was nowhere else compressed in so small a space. The ground reeked with gas: was polluted with dead and the debris of a hundred battles."
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1 week ago
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A Bay Area mall's little-known history of Japanese American incarceration

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A Bay Area mall's little-known history of Japanese American incarceration

fromNew York Daily News
1 year ago

Workers accused of digging shortcut through Great Wall of China

Excavators were used to excavate the original gap of the ancient Great Wall into a large gap, so that the excavator can pass through the gap, which caused irreversible damage to the integrity of the Ming Great Wall and the safety of cultural relics.
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1 week ago

Elephants and Ivory with John Beusterien - Medievalists.net

Throughout medieval times, elephants were recognized for their remarkable traits such as intelligence, memory, and loyalty, often highlighted in bestiaries of the era.
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1 week ago

Ancient art on wheels: how Mumbai's leading museum is sending miniature exhibitions by bus into the Indian countryside

The CSMVS has retrofitted three antiquated public buses as mobile mini-museums, plying historiography on the chaotic highways of the world's most populous country. The objective, according to the CSMVS curators, is to engage citizens in an evolving understanding of history that reflects contemporary values.
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fromwww.bbc.com
1 week ago

Timepiece linked to Darwin voyage cannot leave UK

The timepiece used on the HMS Beagle during Darwin's voyage has been placed under an export bar, allowing time for a UK gallery to purchase it.
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1 week ago

Experience: a postcard delivered 121 years late led me to my long-lost family

It was strange to hold something my grandfather had bought as a boy. The postcard had been passed on to the West Glamorgan Archive Service, which had established Lydia was 16, the eldest of six children living at the address in 1903.
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fromThe Atlantic
1 week ago

Between 'The Drive to Forget and the Obligation to Remember'

In March 1985, I was likely one of the first American tourists to visit Argentina after a military junta relinquished power. Raúl Alfonsín, a human-rights lawyer, was leading the country's first democratically elected government since the early 1970s.
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1 week ago

1600-year-old iron scale, weights found in Turkey

The scale consists of a scale, still articulated, and five weights in the shape of Greek letters, dating to Late Antiquity (4th-7th centuries A.D.) and estimated to be around 1,600 years old.
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1 week ago

Greg Mitchell's 'The Atomic Bowl' Documentary Is an Urgent Reminder of the Terrors of Nuclear War

Mitchell's work notably chronicles the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, focusing on the harrowing aftermath and consequences of these historical events.
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1 week ago

Srebrenica: Survivor speaks for those who no longer can DW 07/10/2025

It took him six days to make it through the forest, running for his life amid the chaos caused by an artillery attack and losing sight of his family.
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fromMedievalists.net
1 week ago

What is Hwt? The Debate Behind Beowulf's Opening Line - Medievalists.net

The pronoun hwæt appears around 5,800 times in Old English literature, leading to extensive interpretations and discussions regarding its meaning and context.
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fromMetro Silicon Valley | Silicon Valley's Leading Weekly
1 week ago

It's 1956 All Over Again at Tiny's Drive-in

In 1956, nearly 60 years ago, the celebrated photographer Arnold Del Carlo snapped this intersection from inside Tiny's Drive-in. Del Carlo could not predict the future. He wasn't clairvoyant, but his photography came close.
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fromSpiegel
2 months ago

Breaking the Silence: Looking Back at World War II Family Histories

In her great-grandfather's photos, Eva Neidlinger recognized places she had visited in Ukraine, linking her family's history with the complex narrative of war and aggression.
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fromMail Online
1 week ago

Rare Egyptian rock carving reveals secrets of ancient kings

The remarkably well-preserved carvings show a figure seated on an ornate boat, pulled by five other individuals while another steers with an oar.
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fromBrooklyn Eagle
1 week ago

July 8: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

PARIS ― The great drouth, unprecedented in more than 50 years, daily is increasing its damage in all sections of France. Prices of vegetables are rising instead of lowering, as is usual at this season of the year, but that is a minor detail compared with the serious effect of the results likely upon crops, orchards and vines, and ultimately upon exchange. Almost day by day the clouded skies have aroused hopes, but only a few drops of rain have fallen, while in many localities hail storms have proved ruinous.
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1 week ago

Haiti's iconic Hotel Oloffson, long a cultural beacon, destroyed by gang violence

The Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince, a historical landmark and cultural hub, has been destroyed amid rising gang violence, marking a significant loss for the community.
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fromMedievalists.net
2 weeks ago

Royal Grief in Medieval Iberia with Nuria Silleras-Fernandez - Medievalists.net

Grief had immense and far-reaching consequences for three medieval Iberian queens, particularly in how they expressed their mourning and navigated widowhood.
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From Butter Penis to Fairhair: 517 Real Viking Nicknames - Medievalists.net

Nicknames in the Viking Age were essential for identifying individuals in a society that primarily used patronyms. They reflected a person's traits, reputation, or origins.
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fromThe Atlantic
1 week ago

What Schwarzenegger Knows About George Washington

In retirement, General Washington is even greater than he was during the Revolution. His decision to relinquish command in 1783 shocked the world.
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fromSlate Magazine
1 week ago

I Got to Fire a Trebuchet. It Was Even Greater Than I Ever Imagined.

The trebuchet was the most fearsome weapon of medieval times, a giant catapult that could lay waste to any fortress by battering its walls with boulders.
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fromBusiness Insider
1 week ago

The glamorous life of Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, the millionaire socialite whose life inspired HBO's 'The Gilded Age'

Alva Vanderbilt Belmont was a prominent Gilded Age socialite who married a Vanderbilt railroad heir, becoming a significant figure in high society and later in the women's suffrage movement.
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