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Homo Naledi: The First Burials?
20 July 2023Uncovered a decade ago in the Rising Star Cave system in South Africa, Homo Naledi's discovery has impacted paleoanthropology in ways nobody could...
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Oppenheimer
19 July 2023On a summer morning in 1945, a device known simply as 'Gadget' was detonated. An enormous explosion tore a crater into the New Mexico desert,...
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Karaoke: The History
19 July 2023When you think about it, the Karaoke machine is a simple invention. Basically two existing inventions, the tape deck and the microphone, were...
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Black Boxes: Recording Airplanes' Final Moments
18 July 2023They can survive in lava for half an hour and accelerations of 3,400 Gs. Their beacons can be detected 20,000 feet beneath the waves. Most...
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Wars of the Roses: Jack Cade's Rebellion Explained
18 July 2023It’s one of the most dramatic stories you might never have heard. Featuring a seaborne assassination, a vengeful manhunt and London Bridge in...
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Althea Gibson: The Wimbledon Champion Who Beat The Odds
18 July 2023The world of tennis in the 1940s wasn't made for someone of Althea Gibson's background.
She was the descendent of slaves, and grew up in...
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Prigozhin: The Fate of Russian ‘Favourites’
17 July 2023Russian history is defined by the rise and fall of favourites. Peter the Great had Menshikov, and Nicholas II had Rasputin. It's part of the...
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A History of American Childhood
17 July 2023School, play and much less work: the idealised childhood is a very separate part of life. But how did it come to be so? And why is this perhaps...
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WW2: Top 5 Strangest Weapons
17 July 2023They say war can be one of the biggest drivers of innovation. Inventions like radar, computers and penicillin, all developed during the Second...
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Tudor Queens: The Power of Jewellery
17 July 2023From the mid-15th century to the mid-16th century, there were 10 Queens Consort of England, from Margaret of Anjou to Katherine Parr. For each of...
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Napoleon
16 July 2023Did Napoleon really come from nothing and conquer everything? The release of the trailer for Ridley Scott's new epic biopic film has created hot...
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Jersey: Ice Age Island
16 July 2023The largest of the Channel Islands, when you think of Jersey, it's doubtful that Neanderthals, Woolly Mammoths, and Woolly Rhinoceroses come to...
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