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The Loss of Native American Lands Within the US: Every Year
See how the Native Americans lost land within the United States and sadly through many cases by force ended up on reservations.
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Making 2,000-year-old bread
In AD 79, a baker put his loaf of bread into the oven. Nearly 2,000 years later it was found during excavations in Herculaneum. The British Museum asked Giorgio Locatelli to recreate the recipe as part of his culinary investigations for 'Pompeii...
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History of the Yuan Dynasty : Every Year
Yuan Dynasty 1271-1368
Northern Yuan Dynasty 1368-1635
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Portraits of the Four Tetrarchs, c. 305
Portraits of the Four Tetrarchs, from Constantinople, c. 305, porphyry, 4' 3" high (St. Marks, Venice)
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Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
Berliner Phillharmoniker - Herbert Von Karajan. Antonio Vivaldi's violin concertos, the Four Seasons.
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BBC Four HD Tales of Tudor Travel The Explorer's Handbook (2018)
A remarkable travel guide compiled from first-hand records of Tudor seafarers in the 16th century. Professor Nandini Das explores Hakluyt's Principal Navigations, which records accounts of ventures in search of lucrative spices and dyes...
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We Are Still Here: Four Hundred Years of Wampanoag History
We Are Still Here explores 400 years of Wampanoag history and how the arrival of European colonists would forever change their way of life. While the Native American tribe on the east coast of America would form an uneasy alliance with...
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The Mayan Pantheon: The Many Gods of the Maya
The pantheon of the Maya is a vast collection of deities worshipped throughout the regions of Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Campeche, Tabasco, and Chiapas in Mexico and southward through Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras. These gods informed...
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Maximinus Thrax
Maximinius Thrax ruled briefly as the Roman emperor from 235 CE to his death in 238 CE. The young Roman Emperor Alexander Severus secured the imperial throne after the assassination of his cousin Elagabalus by the Praetorian Guard in 222...
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Valerian
Valerian ruled as emperor of the Roman Empire from 253 CE until his capture in 260 CE. In 253 CE an elderly Roman military commander and experienced former senator was proclaimed emperor by his troops - a very common occurrence at the time...