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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...
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This man saved the world in the 1980s, and you've probably never heard of him.
It was early in the morning during an overnight shift on Septem...
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For most of us, we have a relatively simple routine for getting ready in the morning. We roll out of bed, we (hopefully) brush our teeth and ...
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STRZELIN, POLAND - the remains of a 700-year-old abandoned village have been rediscovered after nearly 70 years of searching. The quest...
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History is littered with strange artifacts. Archaeologists dig new things up all the time. Books surface, strange maps are found on the bla...
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It came as a horrible surprise. Just a few weeks before, a museum in Norway had intended to move invaluable Viking artifac...
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Last time on History's Badasses, we covered a man named Simo Häyhä. He has been widely regarded by historians as one of the most su...
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For hundreds of years, schools have taught that the Greek mathematician, Euclid, is the father of geometry, and that Pythagoras ...
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.
