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The Practical Mysticism of Evelyn Underhill

In popular history, there are few more challenging subjects than the supernatural and religious beliefs of the past. Even the

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Mexican Day of the Dead – Bittersweet Remembrance of Departed Ancestors

Mexican Day of the Dead – Bittersweet Remembrance of Departed Ancestors The celebrated Mexican Day of the Dead means one thing for

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Renowned Roman Philanthropist’s Tomb Discovered in Ancient Sillyon

Renowned Roman Philanthropist’s Tomb Discovered in Ancient Sillyon Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Sillyon in Turkey’s Antalya province have uncovered the

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Archaeologists Uncover How Ritual Ceremonies Helped Pave the Way for Chinese Unification

Archaeologists Uncover How Ritual Ceremonies Helped Pave the Way for Chinese Unification Archaeologists have excavated three c. 3,000–2,400-year-old ritual structures

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The Worlds at the Earth’s Core

The path leading from Edmond Halley’s writings on magnetism to UFOs under Brazil is as convoluted as you might expect.

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Was Dunsterforce a Disaster? | History Today

On a bleak morning in January 1918 one of the oddest military formations ever put into the field by imperial

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Ancient Teotihuacan Writing System Cracked By Researchers

Ancient Teotihuacan Writing System Cracked By Researchers Danish linguists have achieved a breakthrough that could finally solve one of archaeology’s

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The Radical John Wilkes | History Today

On 21 March 1776 the popular politician John Wilkes (1725-97) rose in a packed House of Commons to speak in

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Mexico Vindicates Woman Long Blamed for Aztec Empire's Collapse

Mexico Vindicates Woman Long Blamed for Aztec Empire’s Collapse For five centuries, La Malinche has carried the burden of being

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AD-X2: When US Politicians Took on Science

On the morning of 3 April 1953 employees reporting to the US National Bureau of Standards (NBS) in Washington, DC,