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Dispatched with a fatally timid mission, many ordinary U.N. soldiers in Rwanda took extraordinary actions, using diplomacy, cultural awareness and community engagement.
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Jun 16
Yet, if the monarchy, military, other political parties and the church had attempted a principled, united opposition to fascism early enough, most of Mussoliniās crimes would likely have been avoided.
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Jun 16
Ibn Battuta met more than 60 sultans and 2,000 scholars, saints and rulers. He served as a judge in India, travelled with caravans that carried markets, and even survived a shipwreck off Calcutta.
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Jun 16
Pherecydes of Samos (6th century BC) was said to have predicted an earthquake āfrom the appearance of some water drawn from a wellā, according to the Roman statesman Cicero (106ā43 BC).
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Jun 16
Long predating the advent of writing systems, its words ā and its name, if it had one ā were never written down.
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Jun 15
A phlebotomy chart showing the various places for bloodletting, 15th century.
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Jun 15
Children were born at the Deoli internment camp. Families were separated. Businesses were seized. The story of India's Chinese community after 1962 remains one of post-colonial history's most overlooked injustices.
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Jun 15
In 1865, almost 40 years before the first plane would even fly, French poet and author Jules Verne published āFrom the Earth to the Moon,ā a science fiction novel.
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Jun 15
Australiaās postwar migrant story includes heroism and hardshipābut also a hidden chapter where fascist fugitives rebuilt their organisations, carried out bombings, and shaped politics from the shadows.
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Jun 15
When the world was exhausted by war and pandemic, the opening of Tutankhamunās tomb reignited global wonderāsparking Tutmania, a pop-culture explosion that reshaped fashion, architecture, music, and design across the 1920s.
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Jun 15
In 1965, Australia was involved in two crises in Southeast Asia, one in Vietnam and the other in Indonesia. The connection between the two was vital to Menziesā decision to increase our involvement in Vietnam.
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Jun 14
One particularly good example of damnatio memoriae involves Crispus, the first son of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great (the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity).
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Jun 14
Now, the Lomekwi artifacts show that those ideas are correct ā at least one group of ancient hominin started intentionally knapping stones to make tools long before previously thought.
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Jun 14
The aircraft was flown by an experienced crew consisting of Captain (later Sir)Ā Ross Macpherson SmithĀ with his brother LieutenantĀ Keith Macpherson SmithĀ as co-pilot and mechanics Sergeant W.H.
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Jun 12
1. What was Ghana known as prior to independence?
History Guild Weekly History Quiz No.323
See how your history knowledge stacks up!
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Jun 12
We donāt tend to put religious shrines in our toilets, but we find them again and again in both public and private toilets in the Roman world.
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Jun 12
When the Spanish invaded and colonised Central America in the European Age of Discovery, they quickly came across the cocoa bean, initially dismissing it as āmore a drink for pigsā as Italian Girolamo Benzoni described it in 1575.
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Jun 11
Early studies on chess players and physicists in the 1970s and ā80s helped show how the kind of flexible and reflective cognition often called critical thinking is really a product of expertise.
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Jun 10
Eccentric behaviour combined with almost unlimited power, made some Roman leaders dangerous and unpredictable.
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Jun 9
Even more telling are the 25,000 volunteers that joined the Waffen SS to fight on the Eastern Front, the highest number of volunteers of any occupied country.
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