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Voices: The Top 10 royalty who became elected leaders
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJeremy Benson asked if there had ever been a Top 10 for which I had failed to receive enough valid...
31 ancient temples from around the world, from Göbekli Tepe to the Parthenon
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Parthenon Temple on a bright day on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. Ancient people built...
'The noble capital of Vienna'
The Week via Yahoo News· 2 years agoVienna Pegasus Books Vienna as an international capital is a city that has been a pivot for diplomacy, culture, intellectual thought, music, art, design,...
The Mysterious Origins Of German Crown Cake
Daily Meal via Yahoo News· 2 months agoGerman crown cake - Facebook/Yvi's German Backstube Though France is often seen as the epicenter for top-tier baked goods, plenty of other nations have...
Why the coins in your pocket make you a Roman
The Telegraph via Yahoo Finance· 2 months ago“This is two thousand years old,” my father reminded me as he placed the small silver disc in the palm of my hand. It was still gleaming, cool to the...
Voices: The Top 10 most powerful people ever
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThis one started when Janan Ganesh wrote in the Financial Times that President Harry Truman in mid-1945 was “the most powerful human being who has ever...
Better to light eight candles than to curse the darkness: Art Marmorstein
American News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn all likelihood, it wasn’t his birthday, but the 25th of December (the 25th of Kislev on the...
7 Fun, Random Historical Facts That I Need To Impart To You This Month
BuzzFeed via Yahoo News· 5 months agoI love history, and I'm always reading new journal articles, and old books, and discovering new...
Ridley Scott’s Napoleon: Accidentally a Comedy?
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 7 months agoTwo centuries and change ago there lived a man who formulated the legal code that more than half the nations on earth still use today, who dissolved the...
Does the United States really tolerate all belief systems?
SC Cloud | St. Cloud Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHow do citizens respond if the government mandates obedience to evil? That is not a new question. Let’s consider historical evidence. Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire sought to eradicate the ...