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8 hours ago

Three large coins hoard found in late Roman-era homes

Three Late Antiquity coin hoards in Senon were intentionally installed, regularly maintained, and accessed within affluent Roman-era homes built over a developed Gallic settlement.
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3 hours ago

SF History Night | Pacific Heights

Monthly themed talks by local experts present diverse San Francisco history topics at Newman Hall with slides and refreshments; $10 non-members, free for SFHA members.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 hour ago

Pearly kings and queens of London in their 150th year photo essay

The first time I saw a pearly, I was sat on a fairly empty midday Northern Line train. As it screeched to a standstill and the doors opened, an elderly gentleman appeared, head to toe in shimmering buttons that were sewn into his black suit. I was fascinated by this man and his bold clothing choice, and I was intrigued to find out more about what this outfit represented. I later learned he was a member of the pearly kings and queens.
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fromMedievalists.net
7 hours ago

The Best Medieval Insults - Medievalists.net

Medieval insults ranged from witty poetic barbs to crude taunts and served as social tools for defending honour, provoking rivals, and escalating conflict.
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21 hours ago

New Medieval Books: The Tres Riches Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry - Medievalists.net

The Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry is a restored medieval illuminated manuscript presented with a facsimile, scholarly research, and detailed restoration findings.
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8 hours ago

Best Medieval Books of 2025 - Medievalists.net

Peter Konieczny highlights favourite medieval books of 2025 while Danièle Cybulskie announces upcoming developments for The Medieval Podcast.
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fromWorld History Encyclopedia
15 hours ago

From War Hero to Exile: The Untold Story of Juan Seguin

Juan Nepomuceno Seguín was a Tejano leader who fought for Texas independence yet faced postwar marginalization, exile, and delayed, politicized recognition.
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Theo van Hoytema gained fame for bird- and animal-focused Art Nouveau lithographs, especially annual calendars, while turkeys became established European domestic staples after early New World introduction.
fromThe Nation
22 hours ago

Make Thanksgiving Radical Again

It's a good thing conservatives know nothing about the actual history of this country they claim to love so much-otherwise, they'd probably launch a War on Thanksgiving. That's because, if you study the path that Thanksgiving took on the way to its current culturally dominant presence in the calendar, it becomes clear that it's low-key one of America's wokest holidays.
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fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 day ago

Thanksgiving: A story of celebration and pain, in maps

Thanksgiving imagery and holiday traditions mask a history of invasion, displacement, death, and marginalization experienced by millions of Indigenous Americans.
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fromwww.esquire.com
17 hours ago

The True Origin of Thanksgiving

Sarah Josepha Hale campaigned relentlessly for a national Thanksgiving, shaping the modern holiday and earning its 1863 proclamation by Abraham Lincoln.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
23 hours ago

Today in History: November 27, Harvey Milk and George Moscone fatally shot

Nov. 27 marks historic events including the 1978 assassinations of San Francisco leaders, Alfred Nobel's will creating the Nobel Prizes, Macy's first parade, violent attacks, and notable birthdays.
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fromBusiness Insider
18 hours ago

Vintage photos show what life in small-town America was like 100 years ago

Early-1900s American small towns thrived with local manufacturing and tight communities but declined mid-century as industries left, becoming tourist sites or ghost towns.
fromFuncheap
15 hours ago

"Toys for Tots & Trains" w/ 500' Model Railroad at USS Hornet (Alameda)

All aboard for a fantastic holiday weekend on the historic USS Hornet Museum! Experience over 500 feet of model railroad track in all scales spread across the massive hangar bay, running December 5-8. Toys for Tots & Trains! (Main events start at 1 pm and go until 4 pm) The hangar bay comes alive for a special afternoon you won't want to miss!
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fromFortune
16 hours ago

How Macy's, a department store chain founded when Abraham Lincoln was alive, established America's the biggest parade of the year | Fortune

The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade began as an employee-driven holiday celebration and grew into America's most-watched annual parade.
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fromMail Online
1 day ago

Easter Island mystery SOLVED: Scientists pinpoint who built heads

Moai on Easter Island were carved and moved by small clans or families (often 4–6 people), using 30 distinct workshops and unique local styles.
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fromMedievalists.net
1 day ago

Medieval Time: Candles, Sundials, Clocks, and Stars - Medievalists.net

Medieval Paris measured time through changing natural markers—church bells, seasonal hours, and candle-burning ordinances—rather than fixed mechanical clock hours.
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1 day ago

New Medieval Books: The Labyrinth of Fortune - Medievalists.net

Juan de Mena's The Labyrinth of Fortune is a complex fifteenth-century Castilian epic offering an allegorical journey and sharp commentary on political turmoil in Castile.
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fromwww.thehistoryblog.com
2 days ago

A gold posy ring and a Gunpowder Plot conspirator walk into a bar

A 16th-century gold posy ring inscribed "YOVR . FRENDE . IN . DEEDE" was found near Bushwood Hall and may connect to Gunpowder Plot conspirators.
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fromWorld History Encyclopedia
1 day ago

How did one man shape the future of Texas against his own wishes?

Stephen F. Austin led Anglo-American settlement of Texas, organizing colonies, laws, and relations with Mexican authorities despite initial reluctance.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 day ago

Today in History: November 26, President Nixon's secretary says she caused Watergate tape gap

Today in history: On Nov. 26, 1973, President Richard Nixon's personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, told a federal court she'd accidentally caused part of the 18 1/2-minute erasure of a key Watergate tape. The gap was in a 1972 recording of a conversation between Nixon and his chief of staff. Also on this date: In 1791, President George Washington held his first full cabinet meeting; in attendance were Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of War Henry Knox
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from24/7 Wall St.
1 day ago

These Forgotten Rifles Inspired Today's Modern Sniper Designs

Modern sniper rifles evolved over decades from prototypes, battlefield experiments, and design refinements in optics, bolt actions, barrel craftsmanship, and modular systems.
#pilgrims
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from24/7 Wall St.
1 day ago

14 Legendary Sniper Shots That Should Have Been Impossible

A select group of snipers executed seemingly impossible long-range, wind-challenged, and obscured-line shots that significantly affected battlefield outcomes.
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fromwww.npr.org
1 day ago

Greetings from Amman, Jordan, where history lent a colossal hand

The Amman Citadel showcases layers of pagan, Christian, and Islamic history with ruins like a colossal Hercules hand, Byzantine church remains, and an Umayyad palace.
fromwww.npr.org
1 day ago

How the turkey trotted its way onto our Thanksgiving tables and into our lexicon

In the English language, the turkey gets kind of a tough break. Talking turkey requires serious honesty and speaking harsh truths. Going cold turkey is, often, an onerous way of quitting something completely and suddenly. Being a turkey is a rude zinger thrown at movie and theatrical flops, as well as unpleasant, failure-prone people. Yet, in the culinary world, the turkey looms large, particularly during November.
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fromWorld History Encyclopedia
2 days ago

What truly went wrong in Churchill's Gallipoli Campaign during WWI?

The 1915-16 Gallipoli Campaign aimed to open the Dardanelles to supply Russia but failed, causing heavy Allied casualties and a forced withdrawal.
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fromMedievalists.net
2 days ago

Online Medieval Courses: Black Friday Sale - Medievalists.net

Black Friday sale offers 25% off online medieval history courses with coupon code BLACKFRIDAY; multiple new and returning courses available for early 2026.
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fromwww.thehistoryblog.com
3 days ago

Rich Roman pyre burial found in France

Richly furnished early 2nd-century High Roman Empire pyre burial (bustum) with coins, gold sheets, and jewellery found at Lamonzie-Saint-Martin ford.
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fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
3 days ago

Frances Fuller Victor's history of Joe Meek, 'The River of the West,' was a 'barbaric yaup of joy' * Oregon ArtsWatch

Frances Fuller Victor's 1870 The River of the West brought the first Oregon history national and regional acclaim and showcased her prolific, attention-getting career.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 days ago

Today in History: November 25, Elian Gonzalez rescued

Today is Tuesday, Nov. 25, the 329th day of 2025. There are 36 days left in the year. Today in history: On Nov. 25, 1999, Elian Gonzalez, a 5-year-old Cuban boy, was rescued by two sport fishermen off the coast of Florida, setting off an international custody battle that eventually saw him repatriated to his father in Cuba. Also on this date:
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from24/7 Wall St.
2 days ago

The Legendary Sharpshooters Who Redefined Special Operations Warfare

For over a century, sharpshooters have shaped the evolution of special operations warfare. From the minimalist precision of Simo Häyhä to the extreme-range shots of modern SOF snipers, these marksmen forced militaries to rethink how small teams could dominate the battlefield. Advances in optics, ballistics, and training didn't just make rifles better, they transformed snipers into high-value assets for reconnaissance, target interdiction, and mission security.
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fromABC7 Los Angeles
2 days ago

90-year-old devotes decades to preserving the Wissahickon War Memorial

A 90-year-old neighbor, Phil Moyer, has tended the Wissahickon War Memorial since childhood, mobilizing community members to maintain the memorial and honor veterans.
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fromTasting Table
2 days ago

This 2-Ingredient Sandwich From The Depression Era Uses Pantry Staples - Tasting Table

During the Great Depression, the bread-and-butter sandwich provided inexpensive sustenance, sometimes sweetened with sugar and often made with margarine when butter was unaffordable.
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fromFortune
2 days ago

'It's a little escape': Airport workers find refuge in airport chapels during Thanksgiving rush | Fortune

Airport chapels provide quiet worship and spiritual support to travelers and airport workers, preserving historic Catholic spaces while accommodating multiple faiths.
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fromWorld History Encyclopedia
3 days ago

Grant's push through the Wilderness: a gamble that shaped the Civil War's final year

Grant's Army of the Potomac engaged Lee's Army of Northern Virginia at the Battle of the Wilderness; Grant pressed the offensive to attrit Confederate forces.
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fromWorld History Encyclopedia
3 days ago

What made the Somme the bloodiest day in British military history?

The First Battle of the Somme was a 1916 WWI Allied offensive with over one million casualties and minimal territorial gains in an attritional stalemate.
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fromwww.esquire.com
3 days ago

Military Personnel Shouldn't Follow Unlawful Orders, No Matter What Trump or JD Vance Think

Last week, a group of Democratic congresspeople, all of them veterans either from the military or from the intelligence agencies, released a video in which they reminded people currently serving that, not only are they able to refuse an illegal order, but that those in the military are required to do so. This, of course, sent the usual escadrille of flying monkeys into low-earth orbit, from the president and the vice president all the way down the opinion food chain to Bill Maher.
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fromAxios
3 days ago

Emmett Till Interpretive Center acquires Mississippi barn where Till was tortured

The Emmett Till Interpretive Center purchased Emmett Till's barn site for $1.5 million to protect it permanently from development and destruction.
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

Bila Burba review how recreating brutal battles helps pass history down the generations

Beyond the written word and photographic evidence, how does one keep history alive? For the Guna people of northern Panama, community theatre emerges as a potent form of cultural documentation and preservation. This vibrant documentary directed by Duiren Wagua, who hails from the same Indigenous community, traces a vital tradition that breathes life into monumental events from the past. The year 1903 marked the separation of Panama from Colombia.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
3 days ago

Today in History: November 24, D.B. Cooper disappears

Nov. 24 marks multiple significant historical events including D.B. Cooper's hijacking, Darwin's publication, Black Codes enactment, notable deaths, disasters, and violent attacks.
#world-war-i
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from24/7 Wall St.
3 days ago

These Life-Changing Inventions Were Happy Accidents

Many major inventions were discovered accidentally, producing life-changing products such as antibiotics, Viagra, chocolate chips, blood thinners (warfarin), and smoke detectors.
from24/7 Wall St.
3 days ago

Countries That Were Once Part of Alexander the Great's Empire

Alexander the Great, born in 356 BCE in the ancient kingdom of Macedon, is one of history's most recognized military leaders and conquerors. Taking the throne at just 20 years old after the assassination of his father, King Philip II, Alexander quickly made plans to expand his empire. Over the course of just 13 years, he led his armies across Asia Minor, Egypt, Persia, and into parts of India, building one of the largest empires the world had ever seen.
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4 days ago

London's Alleys: Budds Alley, Twickenham

A Twickenham passage is named for a man whose will forbade his heirs growing moustaches, linked to the estate's sale for the railway.
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fromTheregister
3 days ago

LisaGUI recreates Apple's Lisa interface in your browser

LisaGUI faithfully recreates the Apple Lisa desktop and LisaOS in JavaScript, offering hands-on access to its distinctive interface and preserving lessons from the system.
fromThe New Yorker
3 days ago

In Northern Scotland, the Neolithic Age Never Ended

Three colossal planks of sandstone, ranging in height from fifteen feet nine inches to eighteen feet eight inches, rise from the grass, along with a smaller stone that has the bent shape of a boomerang. In contrast to the rectilinear blocks at Stonehenge, the Stenness megaliths are thin slabs with angled upper edges, like upside-down guillotine blades. Remnants of a ceremonial circle, they are placed twenty or more feet apart, creating a chasm of negative space.
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fromMedievalists.net
4 days ago

Why the Death Penalty Was Rare in Medieval Europe - Medievalists.net

The death penalty in medieval Europe was rare and exceptional, with fines, banishment, and royal pardons more commonly used than execution.
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fromwww.thehistoryblog.com
5 days ago

Mosaic with personified lake wearing crab claw hairclips found in Turkey

A virtually intact 3rd-century mosaic floor depicting Gaia and complex geometric patterns was uncovered in Iznik after legal delays and full excavation in 2024.
#nuremberg-trials
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fromBusiness Insider
4 days ago

This small-town sheriff was hailed as a crime-busting hero for decades. What if he was the killer all along?

Sheriff Buford Pusser's wife Pauline was fatally ambushed during a pre-dawn police call in 1967, while Buford survived with a jaw wound.
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

Titanic passenger's pocket watch sold for record 1.78m at auction

A gold pocket watch that belonged to a man who died onboard the Titanic when it sank has sold for a record sum. The watch, which belonged to 67-year-old Isidor Straus, went for 1.78m at auction, the highest amount ever paid for Titanic memorabilia. He was given the watch an engraved 18-carat Jules Jurgensen as a gift on his 43rd birthday in 1888.
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fromThe Good Life France
4 days ago

Chateau and gardens of Villandry - Loire Valley - The Good Life France

Chateau and gardens of Villandry were restored to Renaissance elegance in the early 1900s by Joachim Carvallo and Ann Coleman after periods of neglect.
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fromMedievalists.net
5 days ago

New Medieval Books: Behold the Bird in Flight - Medievalists.net

Eleven-year-old Isabelle is abducted and married to King John, enduring a cold, warring England while secretly yearning for her true love Hugh.
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5 days ago

The Two Millennia of Roman History, with Ed Watts - Medievalists.net

A conversation with Ed Watts about his recent book, The Romans: A 2,000 Year History, which covers two millennia of Roman history, down to 1204 AD. We talk about questions of scale in writing history, of continuity and discontinuity in the Roman experience, and what enabled this polity to last for so long.
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fromWorld History Encyclopedia
5 days ago

British East India Company: Interactive Lesson for High School

Materials covering the British East India Company's expansion across India: interactive slides, timeline, maps, primary-source analysis, guided worksheets, and full answer key.
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fromwww.thehistoryblog.com
6 days ago

Sealed Roman sarcophagus opened in Budapest

A sealed 4th-century Roman sarcophagus in Budapest contained a wealthy woman’s remains and rich grave goods, preserved by iron-bracket and lead sealing and undisturbed until modern excavation.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days ago

Which country is the fourth most successful in Olympic swimming? The Saturday quiz

Lee Harvey Oswald; ampersand origin; Silbury Hill; koala fingerprints; Katy Perry spaceflight; Stolichnaya vodka; 1990s Irish divorce; Hungary swimming success.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
5 days ago

Today in History: November 22, Genocide conviction in Srebenica massacre

November 22 features major historical events: Srebrenica conviction, Kennedy assassination, Blackbeard's death, Thatcher's resignation, Merkel's chancellorship, and other tragedies.
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fromwww.thehistoryblog.com
1 week ago

Philosopher mask found at ancient theater

Five new theatrical mask reliefs including a rare philosopher depiction were discovered at Kastabala Roman theater, raising the total to 36 and indicating cultural exchange.
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6 days ago

James Holland, military historian: The Tiger tank is overrated'

WWII tank combat was brutally lethal: every Sherwood Rangers crew was hit, survival depended on luck, and leaving tanks was often more dangerous.
fromLos Angeles Times
6 days ago

This L.A. woman was jailed as a WWII traitor. How a pair of perjuries ensnared 'Tokyo Rose'

Her name was Iva Toguri D'Aquino, and she was born in Watts to Japanese parents in 1916 and had a degree in zoology from UCLA. She wanted to be a doctor. But she traveled to Tokyo in 1941 to care for a sick aunt, with disastrous timing. She made the trip without a passport, which doomed her desperate efforts to board a ship home as the war erupted.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
6 days ago

Today in History: November 21, Navy intelligence analyst accused of spying for Israel

November 21 marks varied historical events including espionage arrests, political resignations, deadly attacks and disasters, infrastructure openings, and high-profile criminal sentences.
fromHarvard Gazette
6 days ago

Walter Isaacson discusses 'The Greatest Sentence Ever Written'- Harvard Gazette

In this edited conversation, Isaacson '74, a journalist and author of best-selling biographies of Benjamin Franklin (2003) and Steve Jobs (2011), digs into the story behind the drafting of the sentence, explains why he believes it is so foundational, and argues that a re-examination of the ideas could remind our riven nation of the common values to which we aspire.
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fromTime Out London
6 days ago

Fascinating historical photographs show the 'lost' London of 100 years ago

London has been through some serious change in its lifetime. Founded by the Romans in 43 AD, the capital's 2,000 year history has seen the city go through plagues, fires, industrialisation, the Blitz, and the tech boom. Now a new photo book has revealed London's lost and secret histories. To be published on November 23, Panoramas of Lost London: Work, Wealth, Poverty and Change 1870-1945, features more than 300 black and white photos, 60 of which have never been seen before, showing London in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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fromConde Nast Traveler
6 days ago

A New Assouline Book Explores Hookah Around the World

The stylish patrons of a hookah lounge on a terrace in the shadow of Dubai's Burj Khalifa; the teens I spotted taking selfies around a hookah at Istanbul's Ciragan Palace; the friends sharing a pipe on a sidewalk in Cairo; the men setting up a hookah on a sand dune in the Saudi desert-they're all carrying on a tradition that began in the royal courts of Mughal India before traveling to Iran, Turkey, the Middle East and North Africa, and, eventually, the West.
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fromArs Technica
6 days ago

First revealed in spy photos, a Bronze Age city emerges from the steppe

Today all that's left of the ancient city of Semiyarka are a few low earthen mounds and some scattered artifacts, nearly hidden beneath the waving grasses of the Kazakh Steppe, a vast swath of grassland that stretches across northern Kazakhstan and into Russia. But recent surveys and excavations reveal that 3,500 years ago, this empty plain was a bustling city with a thriving metalworking industry, where nomadic herders and traders might have mingled with settled metalworkers and merchants.
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fromWIRED
6 days ago

A Computer Science Professor Invented the Emoticon After a Joke Went Wrong

On September 19, 1982, Carnegie Mellon University computer science research assistant professor Scott Fahlman posted a message to the university's bulletin board software that would later come to shape how people communicate online. His proposal: use :-) and :-( as markers to distinguish jokes from serious comments. While Fahlman describes himself as "the inventor ... or at least one of the inventors" of what would later be called the smiley face emoticon, the full story reveals something more interesting than a lone genius moment.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Experience: I found an old Rembrandt in a drawer

A discovered Rembrandt etching among a father's stored artworks prompted valuation and uncertainty about its authenticity and whether to keep or sell it.
fromMedievalists.net
1 week ago

The Medieval Moon with Ayoush Lazikani - Medievalists.net

In the last century we've witnessed people set foot on the moon, and seen even the dark side in high-res images, and yet the moon still evokes a sense of romance and mystery, just as it did in the Middle Ages. This week, Danièle speaks with Ayoush Lazikani about what - and who - medieval people across the world believed the moon to be. Ayoush Lazikani is a lecturer at the University of Oxford, where she specializes in medieval literature.
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fromWorld History Encyclopedia
1 week ago

How a Chaotic Duel Turned Jim Bowie Into an American Legend

A 1827 pistol duel on a Mississippi sandbar escalated into a violent brawl that left multiple casualties and propelled James Bowie to lasting notoriety.
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fromwww.thehistoryblog.com
1 week ago

Mayan elderly lord marker found in Yucatan

A Preclassic Maya limestone carving of an elderly lord was found at Sierra Papacal, indicating the structure served ritual or high-ranking communal functions.
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1 week ago

The Complicated, Frustrating History of the First Spousal Rape Trial

"Rape is not with meaning when it's a husband and wife. ... Maybe this is the risk of being married, you know?"
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fromArchDaily
1 week ago

How Open-Source Toolkits Are Democratizing Built Heritage

Conservation privileges monuments while inaccessible technical knowledge and professional fees drive demolition of vernacular buildings, eroding neighborhood heritage and lifecycle value.
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fromenglish.elpais.com
1 week ago

Niklas Frank, son of a Nazi criminal hanged at Nuremberg: I am against the death penalty, except for that of my father'

Niklas Frank remains haunted by his father Hans Frank's Nazi crimes, carrying enduring hatred, guilt, and vivid memories that never leave him.
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fromwww.thehistoryblog.com
1 week ago

Four early medieval spears found in Lake Lednica

Hundreds of early medieval weapons, including finely decorated spears dated to the late 10th–early 11th centuries, were recovered from Lake Lednica near a Piast stronghold.
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fromWorld History Encyclopedia
1 week ago

From slave trader to American icon: Jim Bowie's unlikely rise

James 'Jim' Bowie became an American hero after dying at the Alamo despite a lifetime as a frontiersman, land speculator, slave trader, and militia officer.
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1 week ago

Laura Ramos: Africa de las Heras used to give us afternoon tea in the same place where she poisoned her husband'

A childhood nanny, Maria Luisa, was Africa de las Heras, KGB agent Patria who infiltrated Trotsky's circle and led Soviet espionage in South America.
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1 week ago

Today in History: November 19, Edsel era ends at Ford

On Nov. 19, 1959, Ford Motor Co. announced it was halting production of the unpopular Edsel. Also on this date: In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania. In 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean made the second crewed landing on the moon.
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from24/7 Wall St.
1 week ago

This Is What the World Might Look Like Today Without European Colonization

A world without European colonization could have been colonized by non-Western empires, yielding more cultural diversity and sustainability but lower technology and living standards.
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fromFortune
1 week ago

Wisconsin archaeologists unearth a prehistoric lake 'parking lot' by mapping the location of 16 ancient canoes | Fortune

Sixteen ancient Indigenous canoes, dating up to 5,200 years old, were mapped submerged in Lake Mendota, indicating long-term communal canoe parking near ancient trails.
fromBig Think
1 week ago

The grim truth about the "good old days"

When Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, declared in 1995 that "the Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race," he was voicing a sentiment that now circulates widely online. Rose-tinted nostalgia for the preindustrial era has gone viral, strengthened by anxieties about our own digital era, with some claiming that modernity itself was a mistake and that "progress" is an illusion. Medieval peasants led happier and more leisurely lives than we do, according to those who pine for the past.
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from24/7 Wall St.
1 week ago

The WWII Invention That Changed Modern Sniper Warfare Forever

WWII-era innovations in scopes, barrels, ammunition, and doctrine transformed improvised sharpshooters into trained, long-range precision snipers, enabling modern sniper rifles.
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fromABC7 Los Angeles
1 week ago

ABC's 'Who Killed JFK?' explores one of the most fateful days in American history with new info

President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963; ABC examines archival footage, eyewitness accounts and March 2025 records, featuring Oliver Stone.
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fromianVisits
1 week ago

Lost for Decades: Alice in Wonderland illustrator's heritage plaque rediscovered

An early jade-green heritage plaque for Sir John Tenniel, thought destroyed after 1950s demolition, was rediscovered, restored, and reinstalled on Fitz-George Avenue.
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fromWorld History Encyclopedia
1 week ago

How did illiterate survivors shape the history of the Alamo's fall?

Susanna Dickinson and Joe, illiterate Alamo survivors, provided interview-mediated accounts that became the primary source shaping Texian understanding of the Alamo's fall.
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