Horatio Nelson is almost certainly the most famous sailor from the British Isles, if not…
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Ask anyone to name a truly ancient board game off the top of their head…
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Major General John Sedgwick could not be said to be afraid of physical danger. Known…
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Africa is truly enormous, but surprisingly populated. Roughly the same amount of people live in…
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Human history has an extremely patchy record when it comes to the treatment of the…
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Thiruvarutprakasa Vallalār Chidambaram Ramalingam, born in 1823 in Chidambaram, India, was one of the most…
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Gaius Julius Caesar is, as a historical figure, not a straightforward proposition. The Romans with…
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Ghost Towns are strangely haunting to us. The empty buildings, which we know to be…
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The First World War had shaken the old values of Europe to their core. An…
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Dogs are undoubtedly one of nature’s success stories, and that is largely thanks to their…
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In the second in this series which seeks to understand the life of a great…
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For those who celebrate Christmas, I hope the recent festive season was a time of…
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Alexander the Great, one of the most successful military leaders of all time, has transcended…
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At the time of writing, Argentina have just won the football (or soccer, if you…
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Santa is near-ubiquitous in his depiction today: a fat, jolly man with a red suit,…