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He Was Short. His Wikipedia Page Is Not.
Slate via Yahoo News· 6 months agoNapoleon Bonaparte did a lot, but he didn’t quite do it all. He did not, for example, fire a bunch of cannons at the Egyptian pyramids. Does it matter...
Opinion: Principles of democracy best means of preserving peace, unity
Asheville Citizen-Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Age of Revolutions was inaugurated by the English Puritans in 1640 when they overthrew King...
Cultural digest: Don’t miss these events in Europe this week
Euronews via Yahoo News· 6 months agoUrban greenery, tantalising truffles and Todd Haynes' 'May December' are just some of the cultural...
The winner takes it all: How Abba’s douze-points energy at Eurovision started a pop revolution
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSongwriting genius and satin came together to wow Europe with ‘Waterloo’. Mark Beaumont traces the...
What Tolstoy Can Teach Us About Geopolitics
Time via Yahoo News· 8 months agoPortrait of the author Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) on 80th birthday. Found in the Collection of State Museum of Leo Tolstoy, Moscow....
The birth of impressionism
The Week via Yahoo News· 1 month agoA visitor looks at the painting "La Lecture". The 15 April 1874 has a good claim to be the founding moment of modern art. A group of 31 artists, who'd...
Tahiti Surfing Venue for 2024 Olympics Will Damage Coral Reef, Residents and Surfers Say
Teen Vogue via Yahoo News· 3 days agoJEROME BROUILLET/Getty Images With the Paris Olympics just around the corner, France is at the...
After 200 years, here's a checklist of names from Jacksonville's history. Do you know them?
The Florida Times-Union via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA lot of people have left their mark on Jacksonville in the past two centuries. Some left their...
Alpine Tunnel Chaos Puts Crucial European Network Under Strain
Bloomberg via Yahoo News· 8 months ago(Bloomberg) -- When a landslide blocked an aging Alpine tunnel connecting Italy and France this...
Mad, Bad, and Dangerous Not to Know
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 3 weeks ago"Lord Byron on the shore of the Hellenic sea," by Giacomo Trecourt. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images) George Gordon Byron, who passed away 200 years ago...
