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The Wise Man of Chief Mountain
The Wise Man of Chief Mountain is an origin story of the Blackfeet nation explaining how they came to wear brightly colored clothing. Although Native American nations generally wore clothing dyed different colors, the Blackfeet were famous...
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The Frog Princess
The Frog Princess is a Slavic folktale focusing on the importance of recognizing someone’s inner beauty, regardless of their outward appearance, as well as the possibility of redemption after failure. The tale has many variants and appears...
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The Mutual Destruction of Sennacherib & Babylon
The reign of Assyrian king Sennacherib (705-681 BCE) was chiefly characterized by his difficulties with Babylon. Throughout the history of the Assyrian Empire, Babylon had caused problems and had even been destroyed by the Assyrian king Tukulti-Ninurta...
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Winning Against the Odds: Sargon II & the Urartu Campaign
It is often when one is faced with the most difficult circumstances that one is given the greatest opportunity for clarity. History provides ample evidence of this experience in showing how, when faced with seemingly impossible situations...
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Sarcophagus of Yaroslav the Wise
The tomb of the Grand Duke of Kyiv Yaroslav the Wise (r. 1019-1054).
Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv.
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Lindow Man
The Lindow Man (officially Lindow III) is the top half of a male body, found preserved in a peat bog in Cheshire, England. The peat bogs at Lindow Moss date back to the last ice age and were formed by holes of melting ice; they are now...
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The Lindow Man
The Lindow Man, dated to between 2 BCE and 119 CE and found in a peat bog in Chesire, England in 1984.
Now on display in the British Museum.
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The Man Who Loved Love
This is a page from the book 'The Man who Loved Love' (1684) written by Ihara Saikaku and illustrated by Hishikawa Moronbu held by the National Diet Library, Tokyo. Rare books of the National Diet Library -The 60th anniversary- (https://www.ndl.go.jp/exhibit60/...
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The Bear Man
The Bear Man is a Pawnee legend exemplifying the Native American understanding of the natural world and serving as an origin tale for the Bear Dance, which was performed to awaken the bears in spring from their winter hibernation and also...
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (French: Declaration des Droits de l’Homme et du Citoyen) is a human rights document adopted in the early stages of the French Revolution (1789-1799). Inspired by Enlightenment Age principles...