Cartagena's Great Siege: How 3,000 Spanish Defenders Humbled Britain's Biggest Fleet
How Blas de Lezo, the 'Half-Man', repelled Britain's 1741 armada at Cartagena — and why the siege still shapes...
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Bogotá's Palace of Justice: Why the 1985 Siege Still Divides Colombia
The Netflix series Palacio revisits Bogotá's 1985 Palace of Justice siege — the deaths, the unresolved state c...
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Ahmed Toughan: The Cartoonist Who Drew Seven Decades of Egyptian Life
Cartoonist Ahmed Toughan drew Egypt for 68 years and 50,000 cartoons. His archive, digitised by AUC in Cairo,...
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A complete 13th-century Iliad manuscript has been hiding in Topkapı Palace
A complete 12th–13th century manuscript of Homer's Iliad in Sultan Mehmed II's library at Topkapı Palace is st...
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Beachley: The Odd English Corner of the Welsh Border That Makes a Great Day Walk
Beachley, an English peninsula wedged between the Wye and Severn near Chepstow, offers estuary walks, bridge c...
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Nine centuries of learning: why Hanoi's Temple of Literature still matters
Hanoi's Temple of Literature marks 950 years since 1076. What its UNESCO-listed steles and scholar traditions...
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UNESCO honours the stone steles that keep the story of Vietnam's Phố Hiến port alive
Vietnam's Phố Hiến stone steles join UNESCO's Memory of the World register. What the 41 carved stones reveal a...
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How a Day-Trip Train Crash in 1853 Forced America to Invent Standard Time
The 1853 Valley Falls train collision killed 14 holidaymakers and exposed chaotic local timekeeping, paving th...
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Easington Colliery: The North East Ex-Mining Village With Sea Views And A Moving Story
Easington Colliery, half an hour from Newcastle, pairs North Sea coastal walks, a 2014 nature reserve and a mo...
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Bắc Ninh's Temple of Literature: the 'golden list' stone steles that record Vietnam's exam champions
Bắc Ninh's Temple of Literature holds 12 stone steles honouring Vietnam's top feudal-era scholars. Why this qu...
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146 Years On: The Morning Zagreb Shook and Rebuilt Itself
On 9 November 1880, a magnitude 6.3 quake hit Zagreb, damaging 1,700+ buildings and rebuilding the city. What...
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146 Years On: The 1880 Earthquake That Rebuilt Zagreb
146 years after Zagreb's biggest earthquake, we look back at the 1880 quake that damaged Zagreb Cathedral and...
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