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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...
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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...
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.
