Ancient Rome holds a mythic place in our imaginations. It’s the land of historical epics like Ben-Hur and Gladiator, where men in…
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Right now, the phrase “Middle East” is pretty much synonymous with “gigantic clusterf—k.” But how did things get to be so monumentally…
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Life under Mao Tse–tung was strange and brutish. While he was chairman of China, he introduced some policies that didn’t work well…
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For 30 years, Genghis Khan and his Mongolian horde swept through Asia, slaughtering over one-tenth of the people on Earth and conquering…
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The idea of an assassin often invokes the image of the lone gunman, working on his own to eliminate whoever he views…
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Recent archaeological finds reveal that the Vikings were not only fierce, bloodthirsty warriors but also farmers, skilled craftsmen, impressive mariners, and expert…
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Today, cars take up a significant part of our lives. They help us get from point A to point B with relative…
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The Maya are perhaps one of the world’s most successful and brilliant civilizations. Thanks to the hard work of dedicated researchers and…
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Movies like 12 Years a Slave give us a good idea of what the desperate escape to freedom must have been like…
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History will never forget Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the Moon or the Wright Brothers’ first moments of flying through the sky.…