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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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“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...
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We've done a post on weird recipes from the Victorian Times, but have you ever wondered what the basics of Victorian cooking were really li...
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Historical records aren't always on paper. Sometimes, they're written in stone.
The Indian Ocean earthquake of 2004 was the third-largest t...
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VALLEY OF THE KINGS, EGYPT - famous archaeologist Zahi Hawass (former head of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities) thinks he may have ...
