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7 Lost Civilisations From Around The World
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The Other Churchill’s Finest Hour
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Eleanor Herman discusses how poisoning, both intentional and accidental, has played a massive role in the lives of European royal houses through the centuries
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10 Biggest Fashion Icons Through History
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How India’s ‘Tiger of Mysore’ shocked the British Empire
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Professor Nick Groom explains in The Vampire: A New History how surgery, Serbia and Bram Stoker birthed the modern bloodsucker
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From Stalin to Kim il-Sung, discover 10 of the most notorious Communist tyrants of the 20th century
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Discover the shocking treatment of kidnapped Africans transported to the Americas as slaves
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10 Infamous Pirates, from Blackbeard to Ching Shih
From the Privateers of the Caribbean to the Pirates of South China Seas, discover 10 of the most infamous swashbucklers and freebooters in history
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