A casual glance at Roman history seems to suggest it followed a straightforward path. The…
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In the summer of 1947, a civilian pilot called Kenneth Arnold reported that whilst flying…
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The Great Glen Fault is a significant geological feature that covers the Southwest to the…
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The Apicius Cookbook, known as the De Re Coquinaria or De Re Culinarian (On the…
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Sol Invictus, also known as the invincible sun or the unconquered sun, was the official…
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The House of Habsburg, also known as the House of Austria, is and was one…
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The Hole in the Wall Gang was an outlaw gang in the American Wild West…
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In the last few decades, there have been huge debates around the Neanderthals and their…
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Emperor Taizu of Song was born on the 21st of March 927. His personal name…
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Irish mythology can be deeply frustrating. On the one hand, we know comparatively little about…
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The Kingdom of the Suebi also referred to as Kingdom of Galicia was a kingdom…
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Late Victorian London was a strange and an unsettling place. There were figures stalking the…
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The IJN Zipang was a plan concocted by Lieutenant Commander Hidetaro Kaneda around 1912. It…
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Juan Pujol Garcia lived a lie so well that it helped to win World War…
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Mušḫuššu is, according to Babylonian myths, a dragon with a very thin and scaly body.…