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The Wendish Crusade: Holy War or Political Ambition in the Baltic Frontier?

For centuries, the Polabian Slavs lived in their ancestral homeland around the Elbe River, in what is today Germany. Following their age-old traditional lifestyle, they

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Oldest US Firearm Found in Arizona and Tied to Coronado Expedition

A groundbreaking discovery in southern Arizona has unveiled the oldest known firearm in the continental United States. A bronze wall gun, dating to the Coronado

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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 metal detectorist on his first

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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. In Britain, girls stitched samplers

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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A historical document composed by King Otto I, better known as Otto the Great, to his English queen has been re-examined and re-dated by a

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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 when the German Lutheran author

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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 friends. It is in essence

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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 all night. By morning, he

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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 Rome, reads a printed newspaper.

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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. A bestseller across Europe, this