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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 ...
" mind and personality seem to us superhuman, while the man himself mysterious and remote." - Art Historian Helen Gardner.
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Born in 14...
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This year's eclipse was captured by millions of people with their smartphones and cameras. For a few minutes, it felt like the whole wor...
“There’s a lot more variability in human cultures, and cultural behavior, than we might think.” - Pat Shipman, anthropology professor at Penn State University.
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In AD 1066, a date widely regarded as one of the most important dates in all of world history, William the Conqueror invaded S...
