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Night view of Topkapi Palace from across the Bosphorus (Lefteris Papaulakis / Adobe Stock) — 29 Jul 2022

Topkapi Palace, Showcasing Ottoman Splendor And Opulence

By micki pistorius

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Centuries before Versailles, Buckingham Palace and the Kremlin Palace, on the shore where the Western world meets the East, cupped by the Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus Strait and the Golden Horn, there rose a palace of such splendor, called...
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Night view of Topkapi Palace from across the Bosphorus (Lefteris Papaulakis / Adobe Stock) — 29 Jul 2022

Topkapi Palace, Showcasing Ottoman Splendor And Opulence

By micki pistorius

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Centuries before Versailles, Buckingham Palace and the Kremlin Palace, on the shore where the Western world meets the East, cupped by the Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus Strait and the Golden Horn, there rose a palace of such splendor, called...
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Dannebrog falling from the sky during the Battle of Lindanise with Roskilde-bishop Peder Jacobsen pointing at Dannebrog while informing king Valdemar II of Denmark, by Christian August Lorentzen (1219) Statens Museum for Kunst (CC0) — 25 Jul 2022

Medieval Colonialism: The Danish Duchy Of Estonia

By Jake Leigh-Howarth

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Within the pantheon of great empires, the Kingdom of Denmark has received very little attention, yet this small European civilization was one the most enterprising of its day following its unification after the Viking period. As the Danes reached...
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Dannebrog falling from the sky during the Battle of Lindanise with Roskilde-bishop Peder Jacobsen pointing at Dannebrog while informing king Valdemar II of Denmark, by Christian August Lorentzen (1219) Statens Museum for Kunst (CC0) — 25 Jul 2022

Medieval Colonialism: The Danish Duchy Of Estonia

By Jake Leigh-Howarth

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Within the pantheon of great empires, the Kingdom of Denmark has received very little attention, yet this small European civilization was one the most enterprising of its day following its unification after the Viking period. As the Danes reached...
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Sacrifice of a lamb on a Pitsa Panel, Corinth, 540–530 BC (Public Domain) — 22 Jul 2022

The Furry Ones Slain And Sacrificed To Bloodthirsty Deities

By ashley cowie

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It is beyond many people to even consider the killing of an animal, the sacrifice of the innocent in the name of a deity, but this was not the case in ancient times, and even in some parts of the modern world, where the killing of what are today...
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Sacrifice of a lamb on a Pitsa Panel, Corinth, 540–530 BC (Public Domain) — 22 Jul 2022

The Furry Ones Slain And Sacrificed To Bloodthirsty Deities

By ashley cowie

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It is beyond many people to even consider the killing of an animal, the sacrifice of the innocent in the name of a deity, but this was not the case in ancient times, and even in some parts of the modern world, where the killing of what are today...
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Christopher Columbus before the Catholic Monarchs at the court of Barcelona (V. Turgis, 19th century ) (Public Domain) — 11 Jul 2022

Christopher Columbus Finding The New Jerusalem And King Solomon’s Ophir

By davidchildress

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Cristobal Colón was born in mid-1460 as the illegitimate son of Prince Carlos (Charles IV) of Viana, Spain, and Margarita Colón, of a prominent Jewish family in the ghetto of the Island of Mallorca, near the village of Genova. He took on the...
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Christopher Columbus before the Catholic Monarchs at the court of Barcelona (V. Turgis, 19th century ) (Public Domain) — 11 Jul 2022

Christopher Columbus Finding The New Jerusalem And King Solomon’s Ophir

By davidchildress

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Cristobal Colón was born in mid-1460 as the illegitimate son of Prince Carlos (Charles IV) of Viana, Spain, and Margarita Colón, of a prominent Jewish family in the ghetto of the Island of Mallorca, near the village of Genova. He took on the...
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Kaiser Wilhelm II Autocrat Or Pacifist In World War I? — 08 Jul 2022

Kaiser Wilhelm II Autocrat Or Pacifist In World War I?

By Dr Michael Arnheim

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Was World War I inevitable? If so, when did it become so, and why? Contrary to general belief, the war could have been averted or prevented altogether had two of the crowned heads involved had more rather than less power over their own...
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Kaiser Wilhelm II Autocrat Or Pacifist In World War I? — 08 Jul 2022

Kaiser Wilhelm II Autocrat Or Pacifist In World War I?

By Dr Michael Arnheim

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Was World War I inevitable? If so, when did it become so, and why? Contrary to general belief, the war could have been averted or prevented altogether had two of the crowned heads involved had more rather than less power over their own...
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