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Europe's Dark Ages have captivated people for centuries. There's been whole history textbooks written about them. They're shrouded in myste...
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In 1891, a legacy to rival all crime fiction to date began. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published his "A Scandal in Bohemia", in The Strand Magaz...
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Last time, in History's Nutcases, we covered Caligula. This time in the series, we're taking a look at another insane ruler fro...
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...
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.
