Our past is filled with colorful characters who often get left out of the history books. From swashbuckling adventures to love stories…
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Historical
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We tend to think of history like a comic book: we have heroes, we have villains, the end. But that is not…
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Game of Thrones is clearly inspired by the jostling of power that has happened in the British Isles for thousands of years—with…
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The human mind seems to be programmed to think that things did not happen unless one can personally recall it happening. Historians…
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Sometimes, it can be very difficult to distinguish historical fact from historical fiction. In some cases, the lack of solid evidence makes…
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History can be a hard sell. There are a lot of dates to memorize, and it wasn’t all as edge-of-your-seat exciting as…
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Stuck in stories that are embellished or written with old facts, famous figures often do not bring their entire selves to the…
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Some historical figures have been so mythologized that they have taken on a larger-than-life persona and a life of their own beyond…
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We think of human evolution as a natural, step-by-step feature of life on Earth, even if all evidence suggests that it’s not…
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Sometimes the way we learn about the past colors our impression and understanding of it. Minor events can be made to seem…