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Dniprodzerzhynsk. 4 byronius Mar 2012 Apr 2012 6 4806
The Strange Pop Culture Tastes of Dictators 1 RZM Mar 2012 Apr 2012 2 2171
Mysterious Animal-Shaped Structures in Peru Are Oldest Known 0 ellisonz Mar 2012 Mar 2012 1 2264
Artifacts Show Sophistication of Ancient Nomads 2 ellisonz Mar 2012 Mar 2012 1 2460
Accused Nazi guard John Demjanjuk dies at 91 4 RZM Mar 2012 Mar 2012 1 2524
A Point of View: Churchill and the birth of the special relationship 1 Owlet Mar 2012 Mar 2012 1 2406
36 Pictures From The Construction Of The Titanic 1 Fearless Mar 2012 Mar 2012 4 5113
Why Does the Central African Republic Have Such a Boring Name? Blame the French. 2 ellisonz Mar 2012 Mar 2012 0 2348
Mona Lisa copy may have been painted by Leonardo da Vinci's lover, art historians suggest 0 ellisonz Mar 2012 Mar 2012 0 1766
Photographs Renewed 7 Fearless Mar 2012 Mar 2012 2 4794
Tony Judt's final book is a collaboration with renowned historian Timothy Snyder 1 RZM Feb 2012 Mar 2012 0 2163
Investigators may have discovered earliest evidence of Christian iconography in Jerusalem 0 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 1 2002
The Rising East: Treasure Trove Displayed as Diplomatic Message 0 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 1 1698
My interest in history is the mundane detail of everyday life 9 canetoad Jan 2012 Feb 2012 0 3943
Last Days of the Third Reich 2 Renew Deal Feb 2012 Feb 2012 3 3061
Mugabe loyalists demand body of colonialist Cecil Rhodes be exhumed and sent back to Britain 4 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 0 2795
How Empire Ruled the World 3 RZM Jan 2012 Feb 2012 0 2225
Ancient tablet may contain world’s oldest ‘Yo Mama’ joke, along with sex and beer humor 8 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 12 7647
Was Stonehenge the result of an extraordinary hallucination after frenzied flute playing? 4 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 2 2636
The Oldest Modernist Paintings 3 RZM Feb 2012 Feb 2012 3 3221
App Review: Timeline Eons 1 RZM Feb 2012 Feb 2012 0 1748
The First Sexual Revolution: Pleasure Priniciples 1 RZM Feb 2012 Feb 2012 3 2116
Otto von Bismarck voice recording released (BBC) 1 eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 Feb 2012 1 2511
World War II Rumor About an Ancient Lake Is Revived 0 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 0 1846
Guinea Pigs Were Widespread as Elizabethan Pets 3 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 2 5411
The Sistine Chapel of the Andes 3 RZM Feb 2012 Feb 2012 17 5759
A Merciless Place: Britain's Convict Disaster in Africa 1 RZM Feb 2012 Feb 2012 2 1823
Malaysian jungle adventurers solve WWII mysteries 0 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 2 1719
Shoichi Yokoi, the Japanese soldier who held out in Guam 5 ellisonz Jan 2012 Feb 2012 5 4342
Treasure hunter says he found $3B WWII wreck 3 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 15 3380

World History Continued...

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Hitler's 'Wolf Lair' hidden deep in Polish forest to be turned into major tourist attraction 4 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 2954
New book out on the Dreyfus Affair 0 RZM Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1535
Welsh were not only victims of empire but also exploiters, claims historian Huw Bowen 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1824
Archaeology: Greece, the 10 most important discoveries of 2011 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 1 1841
Historical fiction for history buffs 5 pscot Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 2445
Mysterious 'Winged' Structure from Ancient Rome Discovered 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1606
Voltaire English letters discovered by Oxford academic 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1924
Shakespeare's death mask on display for the first time in macabre exhibition of medical artefacts 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1953
The Case Against Ratko Mladic 0 RZM Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1706
Picture of forgotten WWI vet tells a thousand words for historian 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1718
AP: Suspicions rise in Pablo Neruda's death 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1667
AP: Document backs claims KGB stopped Wallenberg probe 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 1 1595
Newsweek: Chinese Artists Explore the Nanjing Massacre 2 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 2329
Dinner With Churchill: Policy Making at the Dinner Table 5 RZM Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 2249
Found a cool site called Fascinating History 0 dixiegrrrrl Jan 2012 Jan 2012 1 2061
The Tibetans who fought the 1971 war 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 1 2376
Did the Romans Invent Christmas? 7 RZM Dec 2011 Jan 2012 2 3249
NYT: Reaching Back 2,000 Years to Unravel a Curse 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1605
Any fans of Time Team? 0 canetoad Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1744
Mysterious Mass Sacrifice Found Near Ancient Peru Pyramid 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 2031
D-day full day CBS radio broadcast 0 mucifer Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 2226
China's tomb raiders laying waste to thousands of years of history 1 Viva_La_Revolution Jan 2012 Jan 2012 1 1981
Francesco Petrarca: The Ascent of Mount Ventoux 0 ellisonz Dec 2011 Dec 2011 0 3672
"God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan" by Jonathan D. Spence. 3 Adsos Letter Dec 2011 Dec 2011 2 11127
Lawrence of Judea 8 RZM Dec 2011 Dec 2011 1 2661
Pics of famous historical figures in their younger days 27 RZM Dec 2011 Dec 2011 2 13538
Bow Before the Portrait: Sino-North Korean Relations Enter the Kim Jong Un Era 0 ellisonz Dec 2011 Dec 2011 1 1597
Timothy Garton Ash on Vaclav Havel's Passing 0 RZM Dec 2011 Dec 2011 0 1678
Former Nazi hit man, 90, taken to prison to serve sentence for World War II killings 0 ellisonz Dec 2011 Dec 2011 2 1755
The Gracchi. Reformers or schmucks? 2 martymar64 May 2011 Dec 2011 0 2703

World History Continued...

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Furor as Renault heirs revisit company's link with Nazis 2 ellisonz Dec 2011 Dec 2011 0 2859
Jonathan Spence’s Third Reith Lecture: Dreams, Paradoxes, and The Uses of History 3 ellisonz Dec 2011 Dec 2011 2 2287
We've been on a bit of a Tudor kick around here lately (mr beac & I are history documentary addicts) 6 beac Dec 2011 Dec 2011 1 2674
Russian photographers imagine "What if...?" 2 Bucky Dec 2011 Dec 2011 4 4451
London built with the blood of British slaves 0 ellisonz Dec 2011 Dec 2011 3 2051
If nobody objects, I'd love to be host of this group 16 RZM Dec 2011 Dec 2011 4 8240
Making Modern Libya: The King and Anderson 0 RZM Dec 2011 Dec 2011 1 1639
New book list out, with some interesting history topics. 5 dixiegrrrrl Dec 2011 Dec 2011 3 4200
Emperor Wang Mang: China's First Socialist? 0 RZM Dec 2011 Dec 2011 0 1693
To start things off for the final preview, here's a classic 8 RZM Dec 2011 Dec 2011 7 5833
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