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mikedashhistory.com
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| | | | | Most nations of note have had at least one great female leader. Not the United States, of course, but one thinks readily enough of Hatshepsut of ancient Egypt, Russia's astonishing Catherine the Great, or Trung Trac of Vietnam. These women were rarely chosen by their people. They came to power, mostly, by default or stealth;... | |
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www.sixthtone.com
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| | | | | The literary tradition Eileen Chang represented was essentially broken off on the Chinese mainland for 40 years. By the time she was rediscovered in the 1980s, that legacy couldn't be recovered, but it could be rewritten. | |
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historyforatheists.com
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| | | | | If there is a story that forms the heart of New Atheist bad history, it's the tale of the Great Library of Alexandria and its destruction by a Christian mob. It's the central moral fable of the Draper-White Thesis, where wise and rational Greeks and Romans store up all the wisdom of the pre-Christian ancient world in a single library, treasuring science and reason and bringing western civilisation to the brink of a technological and industrial revolution. But then a... Read More Read More | |
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partialhistorians.com
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| | | We discuss the terrible men who ruled the Roman Empire as we interview LJ Trafford about her latest history, Ancient Rome's Worst Emperors. | ||
