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Cowboy Diplomacy in the Spanish-American War

By 1898 tensions at Arizona’s border with Mexico had waned but not disappeared. The end of the Mexican-American War in

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Spain Was Different: Tourism Under Franco

South of the Pyrenees lies the holidaymakers’ Utopia’, promised a 1958 Thomas Cook brochure: ‘a spectacular, flamboyant kingdom of the

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Revolutionary Discovery Reveals Viking Silver Hoard's Global Trade Links

New research reveals that a spectacular Viking silver hoard discovered in North Yorkshire demonstrates the far-reaching trade connections between medieval

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Historic Spanish Privateer ‘La Fortuna’ Discovered Among Colonial Shipwrecks

Maritime archaeologists from East Carolina University have uncovered a remarkable collection of four colonial-era shipwrecks along the historic Brunswick Town

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Medieval Knight's Grave Unearthed Beneath Ice Cream Parlor

Archaeologists in Gdansk, Poland have made an extraordinary discovery beneath the floor of a beloved ice cream parlor, unearthing a

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Mental Health and the 17th-Century Ship’s Doctor

In September 1649 ship’s surgeon John Conny was deeply relieved and praised God that ‘all our men [are] in reasonable

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Reduce and Seduce at the Teenage Beauty Farm

When it opened in the Malibu mountains in 1962, the ‘Teen-Age Beauty Farm’ – a combination spa, charm school, weight-loss

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Tezcatlipoca: Enigmatic Aztec God Who Looked Inside People’s Hearts And Observed Their Deeds On Earth

A. Sutherland  – AncientPages.com – No doubt, Tezcatlipoca (‘Lord of the Smoking Mirror’) was one of the most powerful deities

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Neanderthals Carried A Specific AMPD1 Variant Absent In Other Species

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The enzyme AMPD1 is crucial for muscle energy production and maintaining normal muscular function. Genetic mutations

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Underwater Secrets Of Lake Lednica And The Unique Wooden Face

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Last year, during underwater research in Lake Lednica (Gniezno County, Greater Poland Voivodeship), Polish archaeologists from