Generations of children have enjoyed circuses; the death-defying acrobatics, wild animals, tight-rope-walkers, and clowns team up to entertain, intrigue, and dazzle the…
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We’re all prone to acts of laziness. Maybe we should be washing the dishes, but we’ve instead elected to get drunk and…
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In Shelley’s famous poem Ozymandias, a broken statue lies in the empty desert, its pedestal hollowly boasting, “My name is Ozymandias, king…
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There’s a reason why prostitution is called the world’s oldest profession. It has been around for thousands of years in one form…
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New discoveries are made all the time that change the way we regard events and cultures of our past. Just in the…
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History is filled with rulers whose reigns lasted long after their welcome. However, some rulers were in charge for only brief periods…
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Translation seems like an easy task these days, with the help of technology such as Google at our fingertips, but it isn’t…
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Throughout time, religious ideology and belief in the supernatural have both helped and terrified human beings. As prehistoric cave paintings have demonstrated,…
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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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History will never forget Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the Moon or the Wright Brothers’ first moments of flying through the sky.…