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Greek Alphabet
The Greek Alphabet developed from the Phoenician script at some point around the 8th century BCE. The earlier Mycenaean Linear B script, used primarily for lists and inventories, had been lost during the Greek Dark Age, and the technology...

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Chester: A Time-Travelling City
It is said that Chester is the richest city in Britain in terms of archaeological and architectural treasures. One of the finest strategic outposts of the Roman Empire, it is one of the few walled cities left in Britain today. Rachael Lindsay...

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Red Cloud's War
Red Cloud's War (1866-1868) was a conflict between the Lakota Sioux-Cheyenne-Arapaho alliance and the US government over the westward expansion of the United States into the Powder River territory. It was the only war won by the Plains Indians...

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Macedon
Macedon was an ancient kingdom located in the north of the Greek peninsula first inhabited by the Mackednoi tribe who, according to Herodotus, were the first to call themselves 'Hellenes' (later applied to all Greeks) and who gave the land...

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Homo Naledi
Homo naledi is an extinct species of human discovered in Rising Star Cave in South Africa in 2013 CE in what has become the biggest single-species hominin find in Africa to this day, which is moreover set to cause a bit of an avalanche within...

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Discovery of the Mississippi by De Soto
Discovery of the Mississippi by De Soto, painting by William Henry Powell, 1853.
Capitol Rotunda, Washington D.C.

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The Duel Scene from Twelfth Night
The duel scene (Act 3 Scene 4) from William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, oil on canvas by William Powell Firth, 1842.
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.

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Continental Ship Alfred
The USS Alfred of the Continental Navy raises the Grand Union Flag for the first time in December 1775, oil on canvas painting by W. Nowland Van Powell, 1776.
U.S. Navy Art Collection, Washington, D.C.

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Battle of Lake Erie
A scene from the Battle of Lake Erie (10 September 1813) depicting Oliver Hazard Perry rowing from the Lawrence to the Niagara, oil on canvas by William Henry Powell, 1873.
United States Capitol, Washington, D.C.

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The Iraq Museum: A Brightness in the Darkness
For whom have I labored? For whom have I journeyed? For whom have I suffered? I have gained absolutely nothing for myself, I have only profited the snake, the ground lion! The Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet XI This is how the Epic of Gilgamesh...