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  1. maximus otter

    George Washington's 250-Year-Old Cherries Found Buried At Mount Vernon

    Archaeologists found something incredibly rare in the cellar of George Washington's home at Mount Vernon: Two intact jars of cherries buried in the basement of the first U.S. president's house. Cherries and a mystery liquid were found in the jar. And the cherries, [archaeologist] Boroughs...
  2. IbisNibs

    Defenestration: A Historical Perspective

    Or an historical perspective, depending on your pronunciation. A rather long but nicely illustrated article from the Public Domain Review, all about the tradition of defenestration in the Czech city of Prague, starting from before it was even a Czech city: "Windows Onto History: The...
    • IbisNibs
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    • defenestration history history and historiography windows
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    • Forum: Fortean Crime
  3. Steven

    How Tarot Was Turned Into An Occult Obsession

    Dr Terror deals the Death card The Guardian's annoying art critic turns his attention to 'a nice, innocent game played by Renaissance courtiers, often featuring strong women. Why were these artistically dazzling cards given a black magic makeover that endures to this day?'...
    • Steven
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    • history and historiography symbolism tarot the occult
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: General Forteana
  4. maximus otter

    The People Of Mediaeval Cambridge

    The After the Plague Project chose sixteen human skeletons from different sites to reconstruct the biographies of these inhabitants of medieval Cambridge in as much detail as possible. Out of the hundreds of skeletons we studied, we chose these individuals for biographical reconstruction...
  5. ramonmercado

    DNA Shows ‘Persian Princes’ Helped Found Medieval African Trading Culture

    A tale of Persian Princes settling on the Swahili Coast and intermarrying with locals. DNA shows ‘Persian Princes’ helped found medieval African trading culture Merchants from abroad married into powerful local families on the Swahili coast 29 MAR 2023 11:40 AM BY ANDREW CURRY Medieval tombs...
  6. Tunn11

    Are There More Ghosts From Certain Periods In History?

    I've had a quick search on this but didn't turn up anything but I may be using the wrong terms, so please merge (with my apologies) if this is covered elsewhere. I've seen posts on ghosts "fading" as they recede into history but I'm not sure I've seen any speculation on certain periods of...
    • Tunn11
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    • ghosts & hauntings history history and historiography
    • Replies: 37
    • Forum: Ghosts: General
  7. Yithian

    The Longest (And Most Consequential?) Footnote In History

    The Short Version: John Hodgson wrote a multi-volume work entitled 'A History of Northumberland', to which the correct attribution of the construction of Hadrian's Wall is but a peripheral matter. So when he published PART II, VOLUME III in 1840, he appended the fruit of his considerable...
    • Yithian
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    • 1840 a history of northumberland authors books footnotes hadrian's wall history and historiography john hodgson northumberland
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    • Forum: Fortean Culture
  8. Yithian

    Old Soldiers' Ghost Tales: Interviews From The IWM

    I've just been filtering through the vast repository of interviews that the Imperial War Museum has made available online. The following are a number of examples of references to ghosts and the supernatural--some are fleeting, others more involved. I have supplied a brief indication of what...
    • Yithian
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    • ghosts & hauntings history and historiography interviews military museum collections the army the first world war the imperial war museum the raf the royal navy the second world war
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Ghosts: General
  9. rynner2

    History Rewritten: Myths Busted & New Truths Uncovered

    http/tinyurl.com/yqr5sy (Mod Edit: Original link is broken. Archived version found via The Wayback Machine here: https://web.archive.org/web/20090130100439/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1545177/Caravaggio-was-actually-Merisi-of-Milan.html) rynner the ubiquitous
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    • Forum: Urban Legends & Folklore
  10. K

    Cleopatra

    Not just a saucy seductress in a rug, then. :D http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041213/cleopatra.html
    • KeyserXSoze
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    • beauty cleopatra courts & judges documentaries history and historiography netflix royalty the egyptians zahi hawass
    • Replies: 35
    • Forum: Urban Legends & Folklore
  11. M

    Africans In 17th Century Maryland?

    Requires (free) registration: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32744-2004Nov7.html?sub=AR
  12. MrRING

    Why The Three Musketeers? And Communism, Too

    This may seem like a strange question for the forum, but were the Three Musketeer stories the first heroic fictions to be set in a specific, real past? I can't think of any earlier adventure novels that are set in such a real time and specific place. The Leatherstocking Tales were at least...
    • MrRING
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    • alexander dumas books fiction history and historiography the three musketeers
    • Replies: 13
    • Forum: The Human Condition
  13. lopaka

    Proof Caligula Was 'Completely Off His Rocker'

    By Shasta Darlington ROME (Reuters) - For centuries scholars have debated whether Caligula, the Roman empire's eccentric third ruler, was a megalomaniac who dared to defy the gods or a maligned emperor whose caprices were exaggerated after his death. Now a group of archaeologists digging...
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