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How Norse Myths Shape The Way We Think
21 March 2023Thanks to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the legends of Thor, Odin and Asgard are familiar to millions today. Yet the histories of these myths are...
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Lord Byron: Incest, Adultery & Daddy Issues
21 March 2023How debaucherous do you have to be to be remembered as the original bad boy? How mad, bad and dangerous to know was Lord Byron? And how much of it...
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A Short History of Bank Collapses
21 March 2023Looking back at the past few weeks, it seems like banks are collapsing left, right and centre; but what exactly does this mean for us? Are these...
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Iroquois Confederacy
20 March 2023At its height the Iroquois Confederacy (or Haudenosaunee) - a union of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca nations - controlled lands...
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Who Painted Anne Dudley? A Tudor Mystery
20 March 2023For centuries, the name of an accomplished and popular portrait painter in the court of Elizabeth I has remained unknown. The renowned art...
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Saddam Hussein's Rise & Fall
20 March 2023Perhaps one of the best-known modern dictators, Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq for nearly 30 years before eventually being overthrown in 2003 by the US...
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Soviet "Bone Music"
20 March 2023While rifling through a stall at a flea market in Leningrad- now St Petersburg- composer and music producer Stephen Coates came across something...
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Assassins vs Templars: Rise of the Assassins
19 March 2023Using targeted political murder to protect humanity from injustice and abuse of power, the Assassins are infamous as much for their secrecy as for...
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Shetland: Edge of the Prehistoric World
19 March 2023Over 100 miles further than the northern reaches of Britain, beyond Orkney, are a remote group of islands that make up Shetland. It’s one of the...
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Tabasco Sauce
19 March 2023Every bottle of Tabasco sauce on earth comes from one place - Avery Island, deep down in Louisiana. The same place where the sauce was invented by...
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How the Middle Ages Influences Music Today
18 March 2023In our modern and digital age, contemporary music has many influences: heartbreak, war, even climate change. But what about the Middle Ages? Has...
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WW2: Naval Power
17 March 2023In accounts of the Second World War, the role Navy's played is often overlooked. But the Navy's of both the Allied and Axis forces engaged in some...
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