Category: History
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Luxor, a child, a monument, a society...
A 15-year old child defaced a stone sculpture in an ancient Egyptian temple with graffiti. [1] Everyone is angry. They should be. We live in the past. We adore the past. We think in the past. The past is all our society has. Too bad...
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Hanging Gardens, Earthly arrogance...
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are in... Babylon! But a researcher from England (not "UK" since it is not so... United and surely not a "Kingdom" in the sense it was in the old days) claims that all the ancient Greek historians were false and that the gardens are not in Babylon but in Nineveh.…
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Holistic civilization... Can we accept it?
Archeologists unearth new information on the origins of Maya Civilization, which suggest that the Mayas were growing in parallel with the Olmecs. [1] It seems that the debate of whether that civilization was developed on its own or from the Olmec civilization will not be at rest in the near future. Both civilizations seem to…
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When Hitler, Stalin, Tito, Freud and Trotsky all lived together...
There was a time, during 1913, when Hitler, Stalin, Tito, Freud and Trotsky all lived in the same city. [1] When each one of them was left "alone" in his own country, hell broke loose. People being together makes them better. Austria became a big empire by embrassing as much as a dozen different nationalities. "Officers in the…
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De-historization, De-Berlinization...
A German property developing firm has removed parts of a historic stretch of the Berlin Wall amid heavy police presence, despite a week of protests. Builders removed four segments of the so-called East Side Gallery stretch on Wednesday morning to open access to a building site for blocks of flats. Some 250 police officers…
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