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Sappho of Lesbos And The Husband Hoax

Sappho was a woman from the Greek island of Lesbos who prolifically composed songs and poems during the late 7th and early 6th centuries...

Ji An And His Life Of Critiques

Ji An was an interesting government official of the 2nd century BCE, who served the Han emperors of China. He descended from a prominent...

The Tale Of Mad King Aristobulus I

When High Priest John Hyrcanus of Jerusalem died in 104 BCE, he was survived by his wife and five sons. The office of high...

The Legend Of Duke Wechtari’s Bold Bald Charge

Wechtari was a nobleman from Vicenza who was a trusted figure in the entourage of King Grimoald of the Lombards (r. 662-671). Little is...

Faroald I, The First Lombard Duke Of Spoleto

Faroald was a nobleman of the Lombard people who followed King Alboin into Italy in 568, seizing a large portion of the Italian peninsula...

The Tale Of A Bold, Zealous, And Crazy Servant From Bigorra

Sometime prior to the year 580, a servant from the region of Bigorra in southern France suddenly disappeared from his post to start a...

The Action-Packed Life Of Japan’s Greatest Duelist, Miyamoto Musashi

  (Miyamoto Musashi fighting Tsukahara Bokuden, painted by Yoshitoshi  (1839–1892), via Creative Commons) Birth of a Legend Around 1584, a boy was born into the...

In The 16th Century, A Self-Proclaimed Prophet Named Melchior Hoffman Thought The World Would End In 1533

(Print of Melchior Hoffman c 1600, via Creative Commons)   Melchior Hoffman (1495-1543) was a German fur trader who spent his time being a missionary...

Martin Luther (1483-1546)

(Portrait of Martin Luther as an Augustinian Monk, from the Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) , via Creative Commons) On Halloween day,...

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Sappho was a woman from the Greek island of Lesbos who prolifically composed songs and poems during the late 7th and early 6th centuries...

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Sometime prior to the year 580, a servant from the region of Bigorra in southern France suddenly disappeared from his post to start a...

The Soap Opera Family Drama Of The Royal Family Of Hengshan

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Ji An And His Life Of Critiques

Ji An was an interesting government official of the 2nd century BCE, who served the Han emperors of China. He descended from a prominent...

The Tale Of Mad King Aristobulus I

When High Priest John Hyrcanus of Jerusalem died in 104 BCE, he was survived by his wife and five sons. The office of high...
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