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The Lewis Chessmen: Brexit and a New North Sea Style
by Nancy Marie Brown Look at a map and remember the key position this area enjoyed…
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Thomas Farriner: The Man Who Started Great Fire of London
by Rebecca Rideal As the sun set on another hot day, an easterly wind danced through…
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Alba Marina Escobar: Where did Pablo Escobar’s Money Go?
by Juan Pablo Escobar Juan Pablo Escobar writes, after his father's death, his aunt Alba Marina…
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Otto Wollank: The House by the Lake
by Thomas Harding WOLLANK 1890 Sitting astride his horse, Otto Wollank made his way slowly through…
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Elie Wiesel: Night
Preface to Night by Elie Wiesel If in my lifetime I was to write only one…
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A History of Brushing our Teeth
by Greg Jenner Brushing our teeth at 11.45 p.m. Dragging our leaden feet up the staircase,…
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Anchoresses: 10 facts about the Life of Solitude
by Robyn Cadwallader Anchoresses In Christianity, an anchoress is a woman who chooses to withdraw from…
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Lusitania: Triumph and Tragedy
by Greg King and Penny Wilson
Lusitania Prologue Saturday, May 1, 1915 A rainy twilight fell…
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The SS Californian: Avoiding Titanic Icebergs
by David Dyer Excerpt taken from The Midnight Watch: A Novel of the Titanic and the…
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When Reagan Met Pope John Paul II
by Steve Berry On June 7, 1982, safe inside the Vatican behind closed doors, for the…
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Charles Sumner Witnesses the “Abraham Lincoln Magic”
by Stephen Puleo
In April 1865, at General Ulysses S. Grant’s Headquarters at City Point, Virginia,…
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The Wreck of USS Monitor
by David Gibbins
Almost half of the ships that I cover in my book, A History…
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America’s Most Clandestine Military Unit
Adam Gamal (a pseudonym created to keep his family safe from harm) served in the most…
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Feathered Fighters
by Tom Clavin
67 years ago, the U.S. Army Pigeon Service closed. You might think that…
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7 Books to Celebrate Women’s History Month
This Women’s History Month, we bring you seven titles highlighting the amazing feats of women, whether…
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Good With a Gun
by Tom Clavin
In the following excerpt from Follow Me to Hell, Tom Clavin introduces John…
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When Fascists Roamed America’s Cities
by Thomas Mullen
When we think about the World War II years, we tend to visualize…
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The Mayor and the Nazis
by Terry Golway
As hard as it is to imagine, there was a time in the…
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