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Nell Gwyn: Actress and Royal Mistress
10 February 2025How did a lowly orange seller become the most famous actress of her time and mistress of King Charles II?
In 1660, King Charles II ruled...
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Peasants' Revolt: Medieval Rebellion
10 February 20251381, England, the world turned upside down as the commoners rise up and dismantle the mechanisms of power. They're angry about taxes, serfdom,...
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The Reign of Terror: Not Just The Guillotine
10 February 2025Assassin’s Creed Unity puts players right into the Parisian streets where the bloody events of the Reign of Terror occurred, and gives us the...
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Iwo Jima: WWII in the Pacific
10 February 202580 years ago, on the rocky volcanic island of Iwo Jima, the vicious battle for the Pacific reached ever bloodier crescendos. As Allied forces...
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Ice Age Australia
9 February 2025Giant kangaroos. Killer wombats. Carnivorous lions. These beasts once roamed the barren landscape of Ice Age Australia - a vast supercontinent...
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Treasures from Anglo-Saxon Graves
7 February 2025What can grave goods tell us about the lives of people 1,500 years ago? Matt Lewis delves into the early medieval world through the lens of...
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Goat Testicle Transplants: The Bizarre History
7 February 2025Quack doctors have made some INCREDIBLE promises throughout history, but what good would a goat testicle transplant do for you?
In the early...
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Nostradamus
7 February 2025For centuries, Nostradamus has been hailed as the man who saw the future—his cryptic quatrains allegedly foretelling everything from the French...
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Frederick Douglass: Enslavement & Escape
6 February 2025Born enslaved in 1818, by the time of the Civil War Frederick Douglass was famous around the United States and Europe for his work in the...
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Hieroglyphs
6 February 2025From twisted flax to one-legged ibises, Egyptian hieroglyphs offer a window into the heart of ancient Egypt. But how did this script really...
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Rene Descartes
6 February 2025The famous saying "I think, therefore I am" was the cornerstone of the philosophy of Rene Descartes, who died 375 years ago this month at the age...
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Final Days of the Romanovs (Part 2)
6 February 2025(2/2) We join the captive Romanovs as they are moved from The Alexander Palace to Siberia and then to Ekaterinburg, where their dreadful murder...
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