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Today we are used to reaching for a painkiller when we get a headache, we take anaesthetics and antibiotics for granted, and we would not ...
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In 2013 London Underground, the world's first underground railway, marks its 150th anniversary. This new, lavishly illustrated history is the official anniversary publication of ...
From the legendary antagonism between Athens and Sparta during the Peloponnesian War to the Napoleonic Wars and the two World Wars of the twentieth century ...
From 1789 in France to 2011 in Cairo, revolutions have shaken the world. In their pursuit of social justice, revolutionaries have taken on the assembled ...
A new look at the legacy of WWI, a war fought for peace yet followed by a century of devastating violence "The war to end ...
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Since its first publication more than eighty years ago, The Decline of the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and talked ...
For millennia, mankind has devised ingenious and diabolical means of inflicting pain on fellow human beings. This deplorable but seemingly universal trait has eaten away ...