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At 01:23:40 on April 26th 1986, Alexander Akimov pressed the emergency shutdown button at Chernobyl's fourth nuclear reactor. It was an act t...
On a summer's day in 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church College in Oxford, Charles Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics, photographed six-...
Celts: A Captivating Guide to Anc...
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How the Irish Saved Civilization
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Summary of The Strange Death of E...
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When Hitler Took Cocaine and Leni...
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Martin Luther (1483-1546) contributed so much to the development of Western civilization that it is not overstatement to declare that he chan...
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by Masha Gessen
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Response to Parliamentary Delegat...
by Elizabeth I
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The Alhambra in Granada, the Mosque in Cordova—these are some of the magnificent physical remnants of Moorish rule in Spain. Their infl...
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by Eric Brown
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Goths, The: A Captivating Guide t...
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Napoleons Grande Armee: The His...
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by Neil Wenborn
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After a devastating run of German victories, Allied troops are beginning to halt Hitler’s advance. But far from the battlefields, Allie...
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From the Plantation of Ulster in the seventeenth century to the entry into peace talks in the late twentieth century the Northern Irish peopl...
In this vividly descriptive short study, Peter Ackroyd tunnels down through the geological layers of London, meeting the creatures that dwell...
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Soviet Invasion of Hungary in 195...
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La Camorra: The Notorious History...
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War of the Spanish Succession, Th...
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Unification of Italy, The: The Hi...
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Collapse of the Soviet Union, The...
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Dodo, The: The History and Legacy...
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Zulu War and Boer War, The: The H...
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1984 And The Spanish Civil War
by Paul Read
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British statesman Benjamin Disraeli delivered this commanding speech in 1872. His imperialistic ideals informed his Conservative political pl...
by Elizabeth I
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Queen Victoria’s throne speech opened the 1876 parliamentary session. Delivered for her by the Lord Chancellor, it addressed the Crown&...
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Queen Victoria’s 1890 throne speech reads like a state of the union address. In it, she discusses the foreign affairs with Portugal, th...
Queen Victoria’s 1892 throne speech marks the second time in British history when the monarch’s wishes led to a vote of no confid...
In 1875, Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli purchased 44% of the Suez Canal’s stock from the bankrupt Egyptian Khedive. He did not consul...
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Apartheid in South Africa: The Hi...
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Portuguese Inquisition, The: The ...
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In the early 18th century, eighty years prior to revolution, France went wild for stocks and bonds. Mechanics dropped their tools, tradesmen ...
A Really Short History of the Nor...
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Portuguese Empire and Africa, The...
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by Duncan Brack
Rent: $3.49Political Liberalism in Britain: the history of the Liberal Democrats and their predecessor parties, the Liberal Party and the SDP, from the ...