We hear a lot about great writers in school. Mostly the likes of Plato, or Shakespeare, or Dickens. That's all well and good, but there are some female writers ...
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Most people know him as the white wizard Saruman from The Lord of the Rings, or as Count Dooku from Star Wars. Some even know him as...
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During an excavation of the backyard of Wallingford Museum, a small carving was uncovered. At first, the archaeologists thought it wa...
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History is full of interesting anecdotes. A lot of those stories come from the insane, off-the-wall things that some nutcase ...
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"Well behaved women seldom make history."
History is full to the brim of women who fought the expectations of their t...
Welcome back to the weirdest stories from European history, plucked from textbooks and memoirs and great lectures. If you ever sat in history class, bored out o...
History, man: it’s a collection of random dates, bland facts, and long names that all blend into one gray canvass of boredom. Or is it? To be honest, a lot of t...
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You don't have to look much further than a piece of Medieval art to know that it was vastly different from our own. Clothes were...
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CAITHNESS, SCOTLAND - Archaeologists have found, once again, that Scotland seems to bear more historical resemblance to Scandinavian countrie...
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NAHAL REPHA'IM BASIN, ISRAEL - Archaeologists were greeted with a surprising find when they opened up a 4,000-year-old Canaanite to...
Elizabeth Lundin is a Portland-based freelance writer and blogger who enjoys writing about history almost as much as she enjoys reading it: which is quite a lot.
