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Politicising Abortion in the United States

Lizzie and Frank Ward started seeing each other in early 1860. They went for walks in the northern Pennsylvania woods,

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Trung Sisters Of Vietnam: National Heroines That Stood Against Cruel Chinese Occupation Of Their Country

A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The two brave young warrior Vietnamese women – Trung Trac and Trung Nhi  – lived

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Enigma Of Étienne Le Ray – Unusual Vagabond Prophet Nicknamed Nostradamus Of Brittany

Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – No one knows his real name or date of birth and death. His entire life

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Martin Crusius’ Armchair Voyage | History Today

When the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II seized Constantinople in 1453 shockwaves radiated through Christian Europe. According to Pope Pius II,

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Smuggling Under the Cover of Plague

In May 1720 an infected ship from the Levant arrived in Marseilles, bringing with it the last major epidemic of

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Unexplained 17th Century Encounters With A Malevolent Entity That Defy Rational Explanation

Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com –  In a small, tranquil town where life unfolded peacefully, residents had no inkling of the

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When And Why Was Yakuza, The Japanese Mafia Founded?

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com –  The Yakuza is a mafia-like Japanese criminal organization that appeared during the Tokugawa Shogunate (1603

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The Hidden Death in the Victorian Wallpaper

When it opened in 1881 the comic opera Patience was the first theatrical production in the world to be lit

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Has The Mythical Long-Lost Underwater Ancient Land Of The King With Three Crowns Been Found?

Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com –  Throughout the world, countless stories passed down by our ancestors speak of ancient kingdoms, cities,

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Remembering South Vietnam | History Today

In her 2010 memoir Tales from a Mountain City, Quynh Dao – who was 15 at the fall of Saigon