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Opening Question Sources
History: The Subject
Why does History matter? The Guardian: "The future's in the past" by Stephen Fry
Why does history matter? Can it predict our future? The Chronicle: "The Shape of History" by Marc Perry.
How should you write your history essays? HistoryToday: "How to Write a Good History Essay" by Robert Pearce.
Some good suggestions for note-taking from the UK: HistoryToday: "Note-Taking: Purpose, Problems and Proposals" by Viv Sanders.
What year is it? HistoryToday: "BC/AD Dating: In the year of whose Lord?" by Michael Ostling.
How to notes (also from the UK): The Guardian: "Students: how to take notes in lecture" by Harry Slater.
The 50 Greatest Breakthroughs in History by The Atlantic.
How to teach history: TheAtlantic: "You Have to Know History to Actually Teach it" by David Cutler.
How much was this worth when? CPI Inflation Calculator.
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English
The 38 Letter Alphabet: MentalFloss: "12 Letters That Didn't Make the Alphabet" by M Asher Cantrell.
On Ambrose Bierce: Weekly Standard: "Cynic's Progress" by Andrew Ferguson.
On our words: Mental_Floss: "The Fascinating Origins of Color Words" by Onna Nelson.
Poe, adapted: Mental_Floss: "12 Adaptations of Poe's The Raven" by Stacy Conradt.
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Current Events and News
The secret war with Chinese Hackers: Bloomberg Businessweek: "A Chinese Hacker Identity Unmasked" by Dune Lawrence and Michael Riley
Why is France in Mali? New York Review of Books: "When the Jihad Came to Mali" by Joshua Hammer.
What is the Papal Conclave? Focus: "An Illustrated Guide to the Papal Conclave" by Jonathan Teixeira.
The killing of a terrorist and a US citizen: New York Times: "How a US Citizen Came to Be in America's Cross Hairs" by Mark Mazzetti, Charlie Savage, and Scott Shane.
San Diego benefits economically from the growing use of drones, is that a good thing? TheDailyBeast: San Diego, Hub of the US Drone Industry" by Jamie Reno.
What is the newest country in the world like? Outside: "A Wild Country Grows in South Sudan" by Patrick Symmes.
Who's driving globalization? Is the nation-state finished? Quartz: "Nations are no longer driving globalisation - cities are" by Michele Acuto and Parag Khanna.
One of the poorest nations of the world might just disappear: The Daily Mail: "Kiribati: A Nation Going Under" by Bernard Lagan.
An extended conversation with North Korea's sushi chef: GQ: "Dear Leader Dreams of Sushi" by Adam Johnson.
Ancient rivalries abound in Afghanistan: Brookings: "A Deadly Triangle: Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India" by William Dalrymple.
Africa is growing, and changing, quickly: The Atlantic: "How Africa's New Urban Centers Are Shifting its Old Colonial Boundaries" by Howard French.
How will the Syrian civil war end? BBCNews: "Syria sides head for neither victory nor defeat" by Jim Muir.
A chronicle of the Egyptian turmoil: Reuters: "Special Report: Mursi's Downfall" by Yasmine Saleh and Paul Taylor.
Education and minority youths, who is being served? HuffingtonPost: "Dream Deferred" by Joy Resmovits.
Where is Libya now? The New York: "Can Libya Be Saved?" by Jon Lee Anderson.
A pictorial guide to the current world: The Washington Post: "40 Maps That Explain the World" by Max Fisher.
Who decides what is country? Aeon: "Who gets to say what counts as a country?" by Charles Crawford.
Is Iran's new government truly new? Brookings: "Iran Surprises itself and the world." by Suzanne Maloney.
China owns 5% of the Ukraine: Quartz: "China reportedly just bought 5% of the Ukraine" by Lily Kuo.
Should high schools have sports? Atlantic: The Case Against High School Sports by Amanda Ripley.
A Middle East based on ethnic groups: NYT: "Imagining a Remapped Middle East" by Robin Wright.
Iran's special forces are led by a singular man: New Yorker: "The Shadow Commander" by Dexter Filkins.
The History of Daylight Savings: HistoryToday: "Efficiency, Preparedness, Conservation" by Oliver Pollack.
And How to fix Daylight Savings: The Atlantic: "Daylight Savings Time is Terrible" by Allison Schrager.
How China makes money off our trash: The Atlantic: "How China Profits from our Junk" by Adam Minter.
How does Obama use his advisors? Politco Magazine: "Locked in the Cabinet" by Glenn Thrush.
Did President Obama lie in the run-up to the Syrian intervention? London Review of Books: "Whose Sarin?" by Seymour Hersh.
1914-->2014? BrookingsInstitute: "The Rhyme of History" by Margaret MacMillan.
The End of Our Republic echoed? PoliticoMagazine: "Roman Fever" by Rob Goodman.
What's in a name? NewYorker: "Why Your First Name Matters" by Maria Konnikova.
A Sheep No More: "40 Maps that Will Help You Make Sense of the World."
The Atlantic: "American Aqueduct: The Great California Water Saga" by Alexis C. Madrigal.
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Science
Why do we eat so much junk food? New York Times: The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food by Michael Moss
Where is Humanity going? Extinction? The stars? Aeon: "Humanity's Deep Future" by Ross Anderson.
A quick overview of an Atlantis of the Indian Ocean. Nature: "The Violent History of Mauritia" by Khalil Cassimally.
How do we build supertall buildings? PopSci:"The Rise of the Supertalls" by Clay Risen.
How does coffee get from the tree to the cup? Afar.com: "Coffeeland" by David Farley.
The history of our Martian explorations, with an emphasis on Curiosity (Note: some language): The New Yorker: "The Martian Chroniclers" by Burkhard Bilger.
Pollution can take many farms, even nitrogen! National Geographic: "Fertilized World" by Dan Charles.
The future of oil is bright or dark? The Atlantic: "What if We Never Run out of Oil?" by Charles Mann.
Cities grow to fit their space: i09: The Cities That Live Behind Walls" by Vincze Miklos.
The bugs attacking the East Coast love numbers: The New Yorker: "The Cicada's Love Affair with Prime Numbers" by Patrick di Justo.
A cool overview of Leibniz: StephenWolframBlog: "Dropping In On Gottfried Leibniz" by Stephen Wolfram.
Could the two major problems of nuclear power be solved? The New Yorker: "Is There a Safe Way to do Nuclear?" by Gareth Cook.
A look at how the solar system came together: National Geographic: "It All Began in Chaos" by Robert Irion.
Copper has always been important to man, but never more so than now: Pacific Standard: "The New Bronze Age" by Tim Heffernan.
Islands and evolution: Aeon: "The Island Life" by Lewis Spurgin.
The conflict between Ants, Plants, Fungi, and Humans: Aeon: "Ant Farm" by Ed Yong.
Dinosaurs might have had feathers! Nautilus: "T.Rex Might be the thing with feathers" by Brian Switek.
On the food we waste: Modern Farmer: "Food Waste: The Next Food Revolution" by Jesse Hirsch and Reyhan Harmanci.
How plants talk: Nautilus: "Learning to speak Shrub" by Elizabeth Preston.
Predators and camouflage: Nautilus: "1-Trick Chameleon" by Jason Goldman.
Avocados should be gone: SmithsonianBlog: "Why Avocado should have gone the way of the Dodo" by Annebelle Smith.
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8...: +Plus Magazine: "The Life and Numbers of Fibonacci" by R. Knott.
How tech influences archaeology: Mashable: "The New Golden Age of Archaeology is Right Now" by Matt Pertizno.
Why is gold valued? BBC: "Why do we value gold?" by Justin Rowlatt.
How do traits spread? Aeon: "Die, selfish gene, die!" by David Dobbs.
Macrophages: Nautilus: "Meet your body's death-eaters" by Patchen Barss.
Mountain lions and LA: LAMag: "Ghost Cat" by Mike Kessler.
How to map the galaxy: Nautilus: "How to map the galaxy, if you're already in it" by Matthew Francis.
Living on trash, in the ocean! Nautilus: "When Waste Becomes Home" by Andrew Santella.
Sabercats! Aeon: "Once and Future Cats" by Brian Switek.
Wobbly Planets: Nautilus: "The Madness of Planets" by Corey S. Powell.
Catholicism and Evolution: StrangeNotions: "Bill Nye, Ken Ham, and a Third Way" by Stacy Trascanos.
Battle of the Squirrels! Nautilus: "Clash of the Tiny" by Jason Goldman.
Through another's eyes: Nautilus: "How Animals See the World" by Elizabeth Preston.
Climate change and Grolar Bears: Nautilus: "A Strange New Gene Pool of Animals is Brewing in the Arctic" by Tim McDonnell.
Why bloodtypes? Mosaic: "Why do We have blood types?" by Carl Zimmer.
Farming plankton to end carbon: Aeon: "Engineering the Ocean" by David Biello.
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History: American
Early American History isn't easy; one man's search for Ponce deLeon and Florida: Tampa Bay Times: "Can one man overcome 500 years of distorted history" by Jeff Klinkenberg.
The last king of the Aztec Empire: MexConnect.com: "Cuauhtemoc: Winner in Defeat." by Jim Tuck.
Why did Japan surrender the day after Nagasaki? FP: "The Bomb Didn't Beat Japan...Stalin Did." by Ward Wilson.
The Last Battle of the Civil War was fought in 1873: The New Republic: "Homegrown Terror." by Nicholas Lemann.
Revising history through technology: Smithsonian: "Looking at the Battle of Gettysburg through Robert E. Lee's Eyes" by Tony Horwitz.
How do we judge Presidents: BBC: "James Buchanan: Worst US president?" by Tom Geoghegan.
An overview of our foreign policy: The National Interest: "The Tragedy of US Foreign Policy" by Robert Kaplan
The voyages of Columbus: U-Calgary: "Christopher Columbus and the Spanish Empire" by The Applied Research Group.
A Russian California? HistoryToday: "California's Tsarist Colony" by Jeffrey Miller.
The aftermath of the Kennedy assassination: Esquire: "The Flight from Dallas" by Chris Jones.
When the US ruled Japan: HistoryNet: "American Proconsul: How Douglas MacArthur Shaped Post-War Japan" by Stanley Weintraub.
The American Revolution as the British saw it: The Weekly Standard: "Dispirit of '76" by Edward Short.
America's largest city in 1170 burned down: i09: "A mysterious fire destroyed North America's Greatest City" by Annalee Newitz.
A history of Cornwallis: Charles, Earl Cornwallis by Janie B. Cheaney.
The History of the LA Aqueduct: LATimes: "There It is - Take it" by Louis Sahagun.
The Mayflower's Echoes: MentalFloss: "11 Famous Mayflower Descendents" by Matt Soniak.
President for 6 years? DailyBeast: "Why six year Presidential terms would be good for America" by Myra Adams.
The corrupt bargain of 1824: RealClearHistory: "Andrew Jackson and the corrupt bargain" by Patrick Spero.
The history of our money: BBC: "The Pre-History of the Dollar" by Graham Ingram.
Destroy the Constitution? NationalJournal: "A How To Guide to Blowing Up the Constitution" by Alex Seitz-Wald.
What the first one worked like: MentalFloss: "The First One" by Chris Higgins.
The 1st CINC: USHistory.org: "George Washington, Commander in Chief" by Mrs. Wildman.
The 1st censure in the US Senate: United States Senate: "The Censure Case of Charles Pickering" by Anne Butler and Wendy Wolff.
12 Years a Slave: theguardian: "12Years a Slave: The original story of Solomon Northrop from 1853" by the New York Journal of Commerce.
Battle of New Orleans from Teddy's eyes: USGennet.org: "The Battle of New Orleans" by Theodore Roosevelt.
The most important battle of the Civil War: WashingtonPost: "Gettysburg: The battle and the aftermath." by Joel Achenbach.
Reevaluating the civil war: The Atlantic: "150 Years of Misunderstanding the Civil War" by Tony Horwitz.
One man was at 75% of Presidential Assassinations: mental_floss: "Robert Todd Lincoln: Harbinger of Presidential Death" by Ethan Trex.
Colorized Civil War Photos? BusinessInsider: "Amazing American Civil War Photos Turned Into Glorious Color" by Harrison Jacobs.
Big Block of Cheese Day, 2014: NBCNews: "Yes, the White House is Hold a 'Big Block of Cheese Day.' by Shawna Thomas and Carrie Dann.
That's a lot of cheese: mental_floss: "Andrew Jackson's Big Block of Cheese" by Ethan Trex.
On the Inaugural of Washington: Smithsonian (book excerpt): "The Reluctant President" by Ron Chernow.
How a bill becomes law (2014 edition):
Adams 2.0: MillerCenter: "The Campaign and Election of 1824.
President for 31 days: CommandPosts: "Commander in Chief: For 31 Days" by Gail Collins.
Looking for a Presidential Biography? WashingtonPost: "The Fix's list of best presidential biographies" by Chris Cillizza.
The Only President of the CSA: USAToday: "Few Know Much about Jefferson Davis before Presidency" by Elizabeth Crisp.
The Election of 1804: RealClearHistory: "Adams-Jefferon II: Getting Nastier" by Patrick Spero.
The Events of 1770: UMKC: "The Boston Massacre Trials: An Account" by Doug Linder.
King Washington? EarlyAmerica: "The Rise and Fall of the Newburgh Conspiracy" by George L. Marshall, Jr.
The Cotton Gin: TeachingHistory.org: "The Disaster of Innovation" by Christopher Hammer.
On the Election of 1800: SmithsonianMag: "Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr and the Election of 1800" by John Ferling.
The Doctor's report: SmithsonianMag: "Lincoln's Assassination, From a Doctor's Perspective" by Megan Gambino.
A misunderstood battle: HistoryNet: "Battle of Shiloh" by Timothy B. Scott.
Viewpoints: HistoryNet: "Why the South Lost the Civil War" interviews by Carl Zebrowski.
Flu or Fever? SmithsonianMag: "William Henry Harrison may have died of typhoid fever" by Colin Schultz.
Background on the end of the Indian Wars: Historynet: "Wounded Knee" by Charles Phillips.
Were robber barons capitalists? Mises Daily: "The truth about robber barons" by Thomas DiLorenzo.
Where does our national obsession with testing come from? The Atlantic: "The Structure of Success" by Nicholas Lemann
The worst massacre of Native Americans? Legends of America: "The Marias Massacre" by Kathy Weiser.
Not that good: US News: "Worst Presidents: Andrew Johnson (1865-1869) by Jay Tolsen.
The GOP and the Elephant: HarpWeek: "The Third-Term Panic" by Robert C. Kennedy.
On the Election of 1888: SmithsonianMag: "The Vote That Failed" by S.J. Ackerman.
On the Election of 1876: HarpWeek: "The Political Situation."
Death by? MentalFloss: "Where Are They Now? Diseases that Killed You in OregonTrail" by Laura Turner Garrison.
Treason! UMKC: "The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr" by Doug Linder.
On the Kansas-Nebraska Act: Smithsonian: "The Law that Ripped America in Two" by Ross Drake.
The wreck of the Santa Maria: The Independent: "Exclusive: Found after 500 years, the wreck of Christopher Columbus's flagship" by David Keys.
On America's most controversial President: Historynet: "Woodrow Wilson" by Paula Spahn.
Teddy: NYBR: "The TR Show"by Susan Dunn.
Graduation Test: MentalFloss: "Are you Smarter than an Eighth Grader? 1912 Edition" by Lucas Reilly.
Before he was President: Historynet: "The 'Man of Force' Who Saved Belgium" by Richard Ernsberger Jr.
So close... Smithsonian: "When Washington DC Came Close to Being Conquered by the Confederacy" by Thomas A. Lewis.
On the other hand: Smithsonian: "The British View the War of 1812 Quite Differently than Americans do" by Amanda Foreman.
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Obama and 2nd term woes: NYTimes: "On Spying, Woes of Obama echo past Presidents" by John Harwood.
The President's big speech: mental_floss: "A Brief History of the State of the Union" by Ethan Trex.
FDR and the Judicial Branch: ESR: "FDR and the Court-Packing Fiasco" by K. Daniel Glover.
Those three digit numbers of division: The Atlantic: "Our Numbered Days: The Evolution of the Area Code" by Megan Garber.
The story of money: MentalFloss: "The Stories Behind All 50 State Quarters" by Hannah Keyser.
Presidents and God: PBS: "God in the White House."
One Big Step for Mankind: NationalArchives: "The Eagle has Landed, The Flight of Apollo 11, 1969."
History: World
A great article on the Mongols, their Empire, and their war with the Caliphate: The New Yorker: "Annals of History: Invaders" by Bryan Frazier
Why did Medieval Doctors wear funny suits? Mental Floss: "Anatomy of 14th Century Bubonic Plague Hazmat suits" by Bryan Dugan.
What does the British Empire say about America and its Empire today? The National Interest: "Lessons from the British Empire" by Jordan Michael Smith.
How were women treated in Ancient Greece? HistoryToday: "The Rise of Women in Ancient Greece" by Michael Scott.
The transition to an Asia-centered 21st Century began in the 19th century: HistoryToday: "Asia and the Old World Order" by Thomas DuBois.
Read all about the West's first intervention in Iraq here: HistoryToday: "Coming as Liberators" by Kristian Ulrichsen.
The 20th century of Cyprus from its takeover by the British to 2008: London Review of Books: "The Division of Cyprus" by Perry Anderson.
How did the tiny nation of the Dutch establish an economic empire, while fighting the Spanish? HistoryToday: "Dutch Tiger: The Booming Economy of the Dutch Republic (1579-1650).
Three different current books look at the last hundred years of history and its impact on China's future - all three see different thinking: The New York Review of Books: "Will the Chinese be Supreme?" by Ian Johnson.
Napoleon was an "eagle," can he teach us to be eagles today too? The American Interest: "Eagle Nests and Sheeple Stalls" by Walter Russell Mead.
An article on the primary weapon of siege before gunpowder, the trebuchet: Scientific America: "The Trebuchet" by Paul Chevedden et al.
How did people fight in the Middle Ages? The author argues that what we think is usually wrong: History Today: "The Myths of Medieval Warfare" by Sean McGlynn.
A pretty good summary of Mongol operations in Europe, Russia, and the Middle East:Journal of Asian History: "The Mongols in the West" by Denis Sinor.
A great what if?: FirstWorldWarOne.com: "What if Germany had won World War One?" by John J. Reilly.
A quick overview of Masada - last stronghold of the Jewish Rebellion: Jewish Virtual Library: "Masada: Desert Fortress" by the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
A summary of Martin Luther - the man who changed the face of Europe with his defiance: UMKC-School of Law: "The Trial of Martin Luther" by Douglas Linder.
The Mamluks were slaves who ruled Egypt on and off for almost, five hundred years, learn more: HistoryToday: "The Mamluks" by James Waterson.
A summary of the Iranian Revolution and different views of it: London Review of Books: "A Little Feu de Joie" by Adam Shatz.
How did the Muslims conquer Spain so quickly, but fail in France? Military History Online: "The Muslim Horde's Easy Invasion of Iberia" by Robert C. Daniels.
Background on why the Renaissance started in Florence (and Italy): HistoryToday: "Why Renaissance? Why Florence?" by Jon Cook.
The Pyramids are falling apart! The Atlantic: "Mystery Solved? A New Theory About Why the Egyptians stopped building the pyramids." by Rebecca Rosen.
What is the most successful company of all time? HistoryToday: "400 Years of the East India Company" by Huw Bowen.
The cruel treatment of Kenyans during British Imperialism: Los Angeles Review of Books: "Empire and Mau Mau" by Katie Engelhart.
The world's bloodiest civil war was in China: Los Angeles Review of Books: "The World' Bloodiest Civil War" by John B. Thompson.
Who are the first Australians? (Great article - cause I did most of this stuff abroad!): National Geographic: "First Australians" by Michael Finkel.
Spain vs England, Phillip II vs Elizabeth I, the 16th century's war: BBC History: "The Spanish Armada" by Dr. Simon Adams.
How our maps are coordinated: National Geographic: "How the Prime Meridian Changed the World" by Mark Anderson.
The British Empire: Three Empires in One: The New Republic: "Hearts of Darkness, the Incoherence of the British Empire" by Maya Jasanoff.
Atlantis and flood myths: Aeon Magazine: "Out of the Deep" by Edward Platt.
Do people still die from the Bubonic Plague? Nautilus: "Bring Out Your (Very Infrequent) Dead!" by Eli Chen.
Was Egypt the first pseudo-nation-state? BBCNews: "New timeline for the origin of Egypt" by Rebecca Morelle.
A condensed 1000 year European history: Smithsonian: "This Map is a Crash Course in European History."
Largest Empires (youtube): AllTimeTop10s: 10 Biggest Empires in History
Alexander Conquers Persia: HistoryNet: "Battle of Gaugamela: Alexander vs. Darius" by Barry Porter.
Julius Caesar conquers Gaul and builds his myth: Livius: "Alesia" by John Lendering.
China was the unrecognized necessary ally in WWII: Pacific Standard: "China Lost 14 Million People in World War II." by Michael Todd.
The dominant form of winning empires from Assyria to the Ottomans: Subterranean Press: "On Sieges" by K.J. Parker.
Our earliest words: Nautilus: "Fame for 23 Words is 15,000 years overdue" by Claire Cameron.
On Sun Yat-Sen, founding father of China: China-History: "Dr. Sun Yat-sen" by Johnathan Spence.
On Pepin and Charles Martel: Famous Men of the Middle Ages: "Charles Martel and Pepin" by John Henry.
One of the wonders of the Ancient World was destroyed by budget cuts: i09: "The Great Library at Alexandria was destroyed by budget cuts, not fire" by Annalee Newitz.
Napoleon as bad as Hitler? Daily Mail: "The French Fuhrer" by Christopher Hudson.
The Peace of Westphalia: Military-History: "Peace after 30 Years" by Patrick Shierer.
A virtual map of 17th Century London via Wired.co.uk: Link here
The Franco-German War of the 1870s: HeritageHistory: "The Franco-German War" by M.B. Synge.
The history of tattoos: HistoryToday: "Tattoos: The Legacy of a Seafaring Heritage" by Tessa Dunlop.
The last emperor of China: CDOT: "From Emperor to prisoner to citizen to emperor to prisoner to citizen" by Stewart Wesdal.
The Battle of Austerlitz: MilitaryHistoryOnline: "Austerlitz: Napoleon makes his own luck" by Lonny Grout.
Crusader king: FreeRepublic: "Catholic, Crusader, Leper, King" by Michael Whitcraft.
St. Peter's corpse: SmithsonianBlog: "Are these St. Peter's bones?" by Colin Schultz.
A second Great Wall? NPR: "Centuries before China's Great Wall, Another One" by Christopher Joyce.
The History of Religious Tolerance: RealClearWorld: "Edict of Milan, Forever?" by John Weicher.
How many Jesuses were there back then? Slate: "Happy Birthday, Dear Yeshua, Happy Birthday to You!" by Brian Palmer.
Where did Christmas come from? HistoryToday: "Did Romans invent Christmas?" by Matt Salsbury.
Randomness of Egypt: History: "11 Things You Might Not Know About Egypt" by Evan Andrews.
The End of Our Republic echoed? PoliticoMagazine: "Roman Fever" by Rob Goodman.
The world is growing (in the West): Salon: "A GIF of world history from 2348 BC to 1828 AD" by Edward Quin.
The most famous statue of Augustus (See it!): Digital Sculpture Project: Augustus of Porta Prima.
London and Gladiators! The Telegraph: Were Hunger Games ever in Londinium? by Harry Wallop.
Julius crossing the Rubicon: WitnesstoHistory: "The Die is Cast" by Suetonius.
Jews vs Christians in Arabia: HistoryToday: "Red Sea Wars on the eve of Islam" by Peter Frankopan.
A Catholic perspective on the Crusades: patheos: "What is Your Middle Schooler be taught about the Crusades?" by Thomas L. McDonald.
Britian vs Zulus: HistoryofWar.org: "The Zulu Wars" by TDP Dugdale-Pointon.
Roman Innovations: History: "10 Innovations That Built Ancient Rome" by Evan Andrews.
Carthaginian morality? Guardian: "Carthaginians sacrificed their own children" by Maev Kennedy.
How did our ancestors speak? BBC News: "Neanderthals could speak like modern humans, study suggests" by Melissa Hogenboom.
How did Colonialism affect Africa? AFBis: "The Myth of Neo-Colonialism" by Tunde Obidana.
The Air War of WW1: firstworldwar: "The War in the Air" by Ari Unikoski.
When was the order given? Holocaust-History: "When Did Hitler Decide on the Final Solution?" by Gord McFee.
2/10/1258: HistoryToday: "Baghdad Sacked by the Mongols"by Richard Cavendish.
Who started WW1? BBCNews: "World War One: 10 Interpretations of who started WW1."
March 15, 44 BC: HistoryToday: "The Ideas of March: The 2000th Anniversary" by R.A.G. Carson.
Ancient Letters: Al Arabiya: "Decoded: Egyptian Soldier's 1800 Year Old Letter" by Staff.
The Bronze Age Collapse: NewYorker: "Of Hippos and Kings" by Adam Gopnik.
The Mongols and China: Columbia_Asian Topics: "What was the Mongols' Influence on China?" by Morris Rossabi.
Why the Mongols? SmithsonianMag: "Warm, Wet Times Spurred Medieval Mongol Rise" by Sarah Zielinski.
Timur the Bloody: HistoryToday: "The Sack of Damascus" by Richard Cavendish.
TimeMachine Time! SmithsonianMag.com: "Explore Julius Caesar's Rome" by Natasha Geiling.
Takes a beating, keeps on standing... SmithsonianMag.com: "The Secrets of Ancient Rome's Buildings" by Erin Wayman.
China on Rome: i09: "Here's what third-century China thought about the Roman Empire" by Rob Bricken.
On Jesus: UMKC: "Non-Christian References to the Trial of Jesus" Collection.
Attila the Hun: SheppardSoftware: "Attila the Hun".
Don't get sick! The Atlantic: "Avoiding the Black Plague Today" by Iulia Flip.
On Alliances in 1914: IWM: "What you need to know about pre-first world war alliances" by Paul Cornish.
Mayan weapons: SmithsonianMag.com: "Mayas used Spiked Clubs to Bash Combatant's Heads" by Mary Griggs.
Climate Change in 1000 BC: New York Times: "Climate Change Doomed the Ancients" by Eric Cline.
The First Historian: HistoryToday: "Herodotus: A Historian for All Time" by Paul Cartledge.
On the Medieval violence: HistoryToday: "Game of Thrones, the Norman Conquest and Political Violence" by Marc Morris.
On being burned alive: LordsandLadies.org: "Burned at the Stake" by Siteseeters, Ltd.
On the Maiden: Crisis: "St. Joan of Arc: A Guide for Every Age" by Christopher Check.
The Crusades, good or bad? IntercollegiateReview: "You Thought the Crusades Were Evil... Until You Read This" by Paul F. Crawford.
The Launch of the 2nd Crusade: HistoryToday: "Soldiers of the Second Crusade Leave From Devon" by Richard Cavendish.
Mayan recipes: SmithsonianMag: "Forget the Paleo Diet, Make Yourself Some Mesoamerican Hot Chocolate" by Rose Everleth.
On the Tudors: The American Conservative: "England's Game of Thrones" by William Anthony Hay.
The wreck of the Santa Maria: The Independent: "Exclusive: Found after 500 years, the wreck of Christopher Columbus's flagship" by David Keys.
What happened in Tiananmen Square? WilsonQuarterly: "Tiananmen Square at 25" by Yerril Yue Jones.
Baby Brazil: HistoryToday: "Empire of Exceptions: The Making of Modern Brazil" by Gabriel Paquette.
Credit to WW1: Nautilus: "The 6 Most Surprising, Important Inventions from World War One" by Simone M. Scully.
The death that started WW1: NewStatesman: "Who was Franz Ferdinand?" by Simon Winder.
Latin to Know: MentalFloss: "20 Latin Phrases You Should Be Using." by Paul Anthony Jones.
Bodyguard of the Emperor: History: "8 Things You May Not Know About the Praetorian Guard" by Evan Andrews.
The first and greatest? UNRV: "Why was Augustus so successful in creating the Roman Empire?" by Wotwotius.
Rome south of Egypt: HistoryToday: "Desert Legions: The Romans in Africa." by Raoul McLaughlin.
Triumph or fiasco? CatholicAnswers: "Liberating Jerusalem - The Success of the First Crusade" by Steve Weidenkopf.
Pretty cool house: Smithsonian: "The Colosseum was a Housing Complex in Medieval Times" by Mary Beth Griggs.
English From Arabic: MentalFloss: "14 Common Food and Drink Words With Arabic Origins" by Judith B Herman.
One of history's mysteries! HistoryToday:"Who Killed Alexander the Great?" by James Romm.
The Ancient Dark Age: UNRV: "1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed" by Thomas A. Timmes.
Boats and plants: Salon: "The Ancient Egyptian invention that made everything else possible." by John Gaudet.
Fact or fiction? BBCNews: "How many Greek legends were really true?" by Armand d'Angour.
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