AP World History

Biographies

Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft was born on 27 April 1759 in Spitalfields, London, an area known at the time for its mix…

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Mysteries

The Disappearance of the Ark of the Covenant

The Ark of the Covenant enters history not as a legend, but as a matter-of-fact physical object. According to the…

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Warfare

The Battle of Cannae

By the summer of 216 BC, the Roman Republic was fighting for its survival. What had begun as a struggle…

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Biographies

Captain Kidd

William was born into a world where the sea offered opportunity and danger in equal measure. By the time he…

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Mysteries

The Disappearance of Agatha Christie

On the evening of 3 December 1926, Agatha Christie did something that, at the time, seemed entirely unremarkable. She left…

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Warfare

The Battle of Salamis

By the late summer of 480 BC, the Greek world stood on the edge of annihilation. The heroic stand at…

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Mysteries

The Mystery of the Vinland Map

When the Vinland Map first emerged in the mid-twentieth century, it carried a promise so disruptive that it immediately set…

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Mysteries

The Mystery of the Copper Scroll Treasure

In the spring of 1952, archaeologists working in the caves near Qumran made a discovery that immediately set one artefact…

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Warfare

The Soviet-Afghan War

In the years before Soviet tanks crossed the Afghan border, Afghanistan was already a country in deep turmoil. Far from…

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Mysteries

The Disappearance of Alfred Loewenstein

In the late 1920s, few men embodied wealth and modern ambition quite like Alfred Loewenstein. Born in Brussels in 1877,…

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