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Bronze Age Sword Found in Danish Bog Leads to Hoard

A Bronze Age sword, ritually bent before being deposited as an offering, has been unearthed in Værebro Ådal by a…

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Following Threads to Colonial Barbados

Samplers, pieces of embroidery made to practise or demonstrate needlework stitches, were an important part of girls’ education for centuries.…

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Thanksgiving Evolved From Fasting and Prayer to Feasting and Mourning

Thanksgiving observances predate the feast of the year 1621 shared by the Wampanoag Indians and the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony…

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Who to Blame for Early Modern Climate Change?

The sky in the northern hemisphere had been darkened, the winters unusually harsh, and the summers barely arriving for decades…

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Otto the Great’s Tribute to His Late English Queen Finally Makes Sense

A historical document composed by King Otto I, better known as Otto the Great, to his English queen has been…

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How the Thanksgiving Food Favorites Won Their Place at the Table

Thanksgiving, celebrated annually in the United States, is a time-honored tradition marked by a feast that brings together family and…

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What Counts as a Planet?

When, in 1816, John Keats began reading an Elizabethan translation of Homer, he became so enthralled that he stayed up…

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The Rebecca Riots: Why Did Wales Rise Up?

A sustained campaign of attacks blazed across the Welsh counties of Carmarthenshire, Cardiganshire, and Pembrokeshire from 1839. Tenant-farmers and labourers,…

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Hopes, Fears, and Early Modern Astrology

Appearing in 1482, the Libro de la ventura – or Book of Fortune – became a staple of Renaissance parties.…

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Graffiti Was a Powerful Form of Protest in Ancient Rome – as Gladiator II Shows

Claire Holleran/The Conversation Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II features a scene in which a senator, seated at a pavement cafe in…

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