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The Strange Pop Culture Tastes of Dictators 1 RZM Mar 2012 Apr 2012 2 2165
Mysterious Animal-Shaped Structures in Peru Are Oldest Known 0 ellisonz Mar 2012 Mar 2012 1 2260
Artifacts Show Sophistication of Ancient Nomads 2 ellisonz Mar 2012 Mar 2012 1 2456
Accused Nazi guard John Demjanjuk dies at 91 4 RZM Mar 2012 Mar 2012 1 2520
A Point of View: Churchill and the birth of the special relationship 1 Owlet Mar 2012 Mar 2012 1 2401
36 Pictures From The Construction Of The Titanic 1 Fearless Mar 2012 Mar 2012 4 5109
Why Does the Central African Republic Have Such a Boring Name? Blame the French. 2 ellisonz Mar 2012 Mar 2012 0 2342
Mona Lisa copy may have been painted by Leonardo da Vinci's lover, art historians suggest 0 ellisonz Mar 2012 Mar 2012 0 1762
Photographs Renewed 7 Fearless Mar 2012 Mar 2012 2 4786
Tony Judt's final book is a collaboration with renowned historian Timothy Snyder 1 RZM Feb 2012 Mar 2012 0 2159
Investigators may have discovered earliest evidence of Christian iconography in Jerusalem 0 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 1 1999
The Rising East: Treasure Trove Displayed as Diplomatic Message 0 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 1 1696
My interest in history is the mundane detail of everyday life 9 canetoad Jan 2012 Feb 2012 0 3936
Last Days of the Third Reich 2 Renew Deal Feb 2012 Feb 2012 3 3057
Mugabe loyalists demand body of colonialist Cecil Rhodes be exhumed and sent back to Britain 4 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 0 2790
How Empire Ruled the World 3 RZM Jan 2012 Feb 2012 0 2222
Ancient tablet may contain world’s oldest ‘Yo Mama’ joke, along with sex and beer humor 8 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 12 7641
Was Stonehenge the result of an extraordinary hallucination after frenzied flute playing? 4 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 2 2627
The Oldest Modernist Paintings 3 RZM Feb 2012 Feb 2012 3 3218
App Review: Timeline Eons 1 RZM Feb 2012 Feb 2012 0 1743
The First Sexual Revolution: Pleasure Priniciples 1 RZM Feb 2012 Feb 2012 3 2110
Otto von Bismarck voice recording released (BBC) 1 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Feb 2012 1 2507
World War II Rumor About an Ancient Lake Is Revived 0 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 0 1841
Guinea Pigs Were Widespread as Elizabethan Pets 3 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 2 5401
The Sistine Chapel of the Andes 3 RZM Feb 2012 Feb 2012 17 5755
A Merciless Place: Britain's Convict Disaster in Africa 1 RZM Feb 2012 Feb 2012 2 1817
Malaysian jungle adventurers solve WWII mysteries 0 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 2 1717
Shoichi Yokoi, the Japanese soldier who held out in Guam 5 ellisonz Jan 2012 Feb 2012 5 4337
Treasure hunter says he found $3B WWII wreck 3 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 15 3376
Hitler's 'Wolf Lair' hidden deep in Polish forest to be turned into major tourist attraction 4 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 2946

World History Continued...

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New book out on the Dreyfus Affair 0 RZM Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1534
Welsh were not only victims of empire but also exploiters, claims historian Huw Bowen 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1822
Archaeology: Greece, the 10 most important discoveries of 2011 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 1 1836
Historical fiction for history buffs 5 pscot Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 2443
Mysterious 'Winged' Structure from Ancient Rome Discovered 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1602
Voltaire English letters discovered by Oxford academic 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1920
Shakespeare's death mask on display for the first time in macabre exhibition of medical artefacts 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1951
The Case Against Ratko Mladic 0 RZM Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1701
Picture of forgotten WWI vet tells a thousand words for historian 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1713
AP: Suspicions rise in Pablo Neruda's death 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1662
AP: Document backs claims KGB stopped Wallenberg probe 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 1 1590
Newsweek: Chinese Artists Explore the Nanjing Massacre 2 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 2321
Dinner With Churchill: Policy Making at the Dinner Table 5 RZM Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 2244
Found a cool site called Fascinating History 0 dixiegrrrrl Jan 2012 Jan 2012 1 2055
The Tibetans who fought the 1971 war 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 1 2374
Did the Romans Invent Christmas? 7 RZM Dec 2011 Jan 2012 2 3236
NYT: Reaching Back 2,000 Years to Unravel a Curse 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1601
Any fans of Time Team? 0 canetoad Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1740
Mysterious Mass Sacrifice Found Near Ancient Peru Pyramid 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 2023
D-day full day CBS radio broadcast 0 mucifer Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 2223
China's tomb raiders laying waste to thousands of years of history 1 Viva_La_Revolution Jan 2012 Jan 2012 1 1977
Francesco Petrarca: The Ascent of Mount Ventoux 0 ellisonz Dec 2011 Dec 2011 0 3655
"God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan" by Jonathan D. Spence. 3 Adsos Letter Dec 2011 Dec 2011 2 11115
Lawrence of Judea 8 RZM Dec 2011 Dec 2011 1 2652
Pics of famous historical figures in their younger days 27 RZM Dec 2011 Dec 2011 2 13523
Bow Before the Portrait: Sino-North Korean Relations Enter the Kim Jong Un Era 0 ellisonz Dec 2011 Dec 2011 1 1594
Timothy Garton Ash on Vaclav Havel's Passing 0 RZM Dec 2011 Dec 2011 0 1673
Former Nazi hit man, 90, taken to prison to serve sentence for World War II killings 0 ellisonz Dec 2011 Dec 2011 2 1749
The Gracchi. Reformers or schmucks? 2 martymar64 May 2011 Dec 2011 0 2692
Furor as Renault heirs revisit company's link with Nazis 2 ellisonz Dec 2011 Dec 2011 0 2855

World History Continued...

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Jonathan Spence’s Third Reith Lecture: Dreams, Paradoxes, and The Uses of History 3 ellisonz Dec 2011 Dec 2011 2 2282
We've been on a bit of a Tudor kick around here lately (mr beac & I are history documentary addicts) 6 beac Dec 2011 Dec 2011 1 2667
Russian photographers imagine "What if...?" 2 Bucky Dec 2011 Dec 2011 4 4445
London built with the blood of British slaves 0 ellisonz Dec 2011 Dec 2011 3 2046
If nobody objects, I'd love to be host of this group 16 RZM Dec 2011 Dec 2011 4 8229
Making Modern Libya: The King and Anderson 0 RZM Dec 2011 Dec 2011 1 1636
New book list out, with some interesting history topics. 5 dixiegrrrrl Dec 2011 Dec 2011 3 4194
Emperor Wang Mang: China's First Socialist? 0 RZM Dec 2011 Dec 2011 0 1691
To start things off for the final preview, here's a classic 8 RZM Dec 2011 Dec 2011 7 5810
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