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God Save the Queen: Why the British Monarchy May Not Outlive Elizabeth 18 ellisonz Feb 2012 May 2012 1 7272
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The World's Most Popular Gun: The Long Road to the AK-47 4 RZM Feb 2012 May 2012 0 2991
Roanoke Colony Revealed? 1 mgc1961 May 2012 May 2012 1 2007
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Lost Colony: China's First Victory over the West 3 RZM Apr 2012 May 2012 2 2341
Emelienne. 0 byronius Apr 2012 Apr 2012 1 2203
Today is the birthday of Catherine of Aragon, wife of Henry VIII and mother of Mary I of England.... 3 Rowdyboy Dec 2011 Apr 2012 1 3962
Relic of a Saint Is Stolen From a Dublin Cathedral 4 ellisonz Mar 2012 Apr 2012 1 2440
People Who Eat People - An Intellectual History of Cannibalism 6 RZM Mar 2012 Apr 2012 1 4882
Ancient cave speaks of Hades myth 1 ellisonz Mar 2012 Apr 2012 2 1973
Dniprodzerzhynsk. 4 byronius Mar 2012 Apr 2012 6 4865
The Strange Pop Culture Tastes of Dictators 1 RZM Mar 2012 Apr 2012 2 2204
Mysterious Animal-Shaped Structures in Peru Are Oldest Known 0 ellisonz Mar 2012 Mar 2012 1 2281
Artifacts Show Sophistication of Ancient Nomads 2 ellisonz Mar 2012 Mar 2012 1 2501
Accused Nazi guard John Demjanjuk dies at 91 4 RZM Mar 2012 Mar 2012 1 2585
A Point of View: Churchill and the birth of the special relationship 1 Owlet Mar 2012 Mar 2012 1 2446
36 Pictures From The Construction Of The Titanic 1 Fearless Mar 2012 Mar 2012 4 5158
Why Does the Central African Republic Have Such a Boring Name? Blame the French. 2 ellisonz Mar 2012 Mar 2012 0 2385
Mona Lisa copy may have been painted by Leonardo da Vinci's lover, art historians suggest 0 ellisonz Mar 2012 Mar 2012 0 1796
Photographs Renewed 7 Fearless Mar 2012 Mar 2012 2 4869
Tony Judt's final book is a collaboration with renowned historian Timothy Snyder 1 RZM Feb 2012 Mar 2012 0 2194
Investigators may have discovered earliest evidence of Christian iconography in Jerusalem 0 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 1 2025
The Rising East: Treasure Trove Displayed as Diplomatic Message 0 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 1 1719
My interest in history is the mundane detail of everyday life 9 canetoad Jan 2012 Feb 2012 0 4040

World History Continued...

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Last Days of the Third Reich 2 Renew Deal Feb 2012 Feb 2012 3 3105
Mugabe loyalists demand body of colonialist Cecil Rhodes be exhumed and sent back to Britain 4 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 0 2850
How Empire Ruled the World 3 RZM Jan 2012 Feb 2012 0 2254
Ancient tablet may contain world’s oldest ‘Yo Mama’ joke, along with sex and beer humor 8 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 12 7735
Was Stonehenge the result of an extraordinary hallucination after frenzied flute playing? 4 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 2 2689
The Oldest Modernist Paintings 3 RZM Feb 2012 Feb 2012 3 3257
App Review: Timeline Eons 1 RZM Feb 2012 Feb 2012 0 1776
The First Sexual Revolution: Pleasure Priniciples 1 RZM Feb 2012 Feb 2012 3 2145
Otto von Bismarck voice recording released (BBC) 1 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Feb 2012 1 2534
World War II Rumor About an Ancient Lake Is Revived 0 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 0 1865
Guinea Pigs Were Widespread as Elizabethan Pets 3 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 2 5465
The Sistine Chapel of the Andes 3 RZM Feb 2012 Feb 2012 17 5801
A Merciless Place: Britain's Convict Disaster in Africa 1 RZM Feb 2012 Feb 2012 2 1865
Malaysian jungle adventurers solve WWII mysteries 0 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 2 1743
Shoichi Yokoi, the Japanese soldier who held out in Guam 5 ellisonz Jan 2012 Feb 2012 5 4408
Treasure hunter says he found $3B WWII wreck 3 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 15 3439
Hitler's 'Wolf Lair' hidden deep in Polish forest to be turned into major tourist attraction 4 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 3013
New book out on the Dreyfus Affair 0 RZM Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1557
Welsh were not only victims of empire but also exploiters, claims historian Huw Bowen 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1844
Archaeology: Greece, the 10 most important discoveries of 2011 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 1 1861
Historical fiction for history buffs 5 pscot Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 2512
Mysterious 'Winged' Structure from Ancient Rome Discovered 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1629
Voltaire English letters discovered by Oxford academic 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1947
Shakespeare's death mask on display for the first time in macabre exhibition of medical artefacts 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1982
The Case Against Ratko Mladic 0 RZM Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1736
Picture of forgotten WWI vet tells a thousand words for historian 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1743
AP: Suspicions rise in Pablo Neruda's death 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1690
AP: Document backs claims KGB stopped Wallenberg probe 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 1 1614
Newsweek: Chinese Artists Explore the Nanjing Massacre 2 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 2376
Dinner With Churchill: Policy Making at the Dinner Table 5 RZM Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 2312

World History Continued...

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Found a cool site called Fascinating History 0 dixiegrrrrl Jan 2012 Jan 2012 1 2087
The Tibetans who fought the 1971 war 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 1 2398
Did the Romans Invent Christmas? 7 RZM Dec 2011 Jan 2012 2 3335
NYT: Reaching Back 2,000 Years to Unravel a Curse 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1626
Any fans of Time Team? 0 canetoad Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1763
Mysterious Mass Sacrifice Found Near Ancient Peru Pyramid 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 2051
D-day full day CBS radio broadcast 0 mucifer Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 2251
China's tomb raiders laying waste to thousands of years of history 1 Viva_La_Revolution Jan 2012 Jan 2012 1 2026
Francesco Petrarca: The Ascent of Mount Ventoux 0 ellisonz Dec 2011 Dec 2011 0 3693
"God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan" by Jonathan D. Spence. 3 Adsos Letter Dec 2011 Dec 2011 2 11197
Lawrence of Judea 8 RZM Dec 2011 Dec 2011 1 2790
Pics of famous historical figures in their younger days 27 RZM Dec 2011 Dec 2011 2 13730
Bow Before the Portrait: Sino-North Korean Relations Enter the Kim Jong Un Era 0 ellisonz Dec 2011 Dec 2011 1 1624
Timothy Garton Ash on Vaclav Havel's Passing 0 RZM Dec 2011 Dec 2011 0 1703
Former Nazi hit man, 90, taken to prison to serve sentence for World War II killings 0 ellisonz Dec 2011 Dec 2011 2 1802
The Gracchi. Reformers or schmucks? 2 martymar64 May 2011 Dec 2011 0 2755
Furor as Renault heirs revisit company's link with Nazis 2 ellisonz Dec 2011 Dec 2011 0 2908
Jonathan Spence’s Third Reith Lecture: Dreams, Paradoxes, and The Uses of History 3 ellisonz Dec 2011 Dec 2011 2 2336
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 2746
Russian photographers imagine "What if...?" 2 Bucky Dec 2011 Dec 2011 4 4506
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