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The story of Halfdan, the son of Ragnar Lodbrok, who became the king of Northumbria
We have published a series of articles here dedicated to analyzing the historical aspect of the characters from the television series Vikings. Among the sons…
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When the Codex Overtook the Scroll as the Format for Books
Recently, following the article we published about the origins of the books in the Library of Alexandria, a somewhat finicky (and indeed quite mistaken) reader…
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When the Olympic Games included competitions in architecture, painting, sculpture, literature, and music
Jean Jacoby was a Luxembourgish painter; Alex Diggelmann, a Swiss poster artist; the Danish Josef Petersen was a writer; the Hungarian Alfréd Hajós, an architect;…
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Celestine V, the pope who resigned and was imprisoned in a castle for the rest of his life
Times have changed, and social evolution makes it possible that, if in the past access to the throne of St. Peter was in the hands…
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The oldest surviving text of Latin prose is a manual of agriculture and recipes, including the placenta cake
As we mentioned in a previous article, only one percent of all the literature produced by the Romans in Antiquity has survived to our days.…
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The largest cave in the world is so high that it could house 40-story skyscrapers
In the year 1991, a man named Hồ Khanh discovered a cavity in the Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng park on the coast of Vietnam, about 500…
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Cesare Borgia, Machiavelli’s model for his Renaissance prince and alleged inspiration for Leonardo’s face of Christ
Cesare Borgia, commonly known as the Duke of Valentinois, gained his state through his father’s fortune, and lost it with that same fortune, despite employing…
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When it became fashionable in England to have a hermit living in the garden
How did the tradition of garden gnomes begin? Who came up with the idea of decorating the green area of the home with figurines, some…
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