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Wars of the Successors
Alexander the Great died suddenly in 323 BCE without leaving an heir. What he did leave was a group of wildly ambitious generals who came to be known as the Successors.
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Financial Advice From a Respected Pioneer
In 1928 W.D. Albright advised local homesteaders to inventory their assets and liabilities every year. That's what he did and one year it changed the course of his life.
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The Cumbrian Princess
A tiny church in the picturesque Lake District might hold the remains of a long lost princess.
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The Battle of Marathon
This article analyzes the tactics and strategy employed by the Greeks and the Persians in the battle of Marathon and how it has influenced the evolution of the west.
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Mother of Two Thousand Children
Following the defeat of WWII, while many Japanese believed that racially mixed war orphans were better off dead than alive, Miki Sawada dedicated her life to the children
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Crimes of the Middle Ages
In 1642 Massachusetts teenager Thomas Granger raped a mare, a cow, two goats, two calves, five sheep and a turkey, all of whom were put on trial and later executed.
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Medieval Church Lawyers
Medieval Church lawyers used ingenious arguments defending animals in court, and unexpectedly laid the foundations for the animal executions of later secular courts.
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"How To" Trade Secrets Revealed
Venetian glass, hair colour oil, marbling paper and male aphrodisiac are a few of the secret recipes that feature in 16th century historical sources.
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The Rape of Nanking
The Rape of Nanking took place after the fall of the city of Nanking, -today's Nanjing - in China when Japanese troops committed acts of unspeakable cruelty.
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How Fires Were Fought in Colonial Boston
Fire prevention was an obsession. No wonder. The hundreds of candles, lamps, and hearths for cooking and heating meant that the town could go up in smoke overnight.
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The Age of the Fifth Sun in Aztec Mexico
The Aztecs regarded their gods as ferocious, vengeful and malignant. This was why their version of how the world was created was so full of violence and devastation.
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The Gladiatorial Games
Forensic analysis of remains found in a gladiator cemetery in Ephesus, Turkey, provided new facts about the way those men fought and died.
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The Storms of November
Three storms - all destructive, and all in November, lay waste to their hosts. The Ganges floods, Hermann Mellville stirs the Pacific, and Sherman burns Atlanta!
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Neue Wache, Guardhouse to War Memorial
Like other public buildings in what was East Berlin, the Neue Wache has served the political purposes of very different masters over the past one hundred years.
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The Farroupilha Revolution in Brazil
Rio Grande do Sul is known for its pursuits of separatism. In 1835 this led to the Revolução Farroupilha, or Guerra dos Farrapos, and the Riograndense Republic.
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Adolf Eichmann Found Guilty of War Crimes
With ruthless efficiency, the "architect of the Holocaust" implemented the Nazi extermination policy of the Jews of Europe, killing a total of six million Jewish people.
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