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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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History

The History of Nuclear Power

The story of nuclear power begins not in power plants or political debates, but in the laboratories of the late…

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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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Warfare

The Battle of White Mountain

By the early seventeenth century, Bohemia sat on a political and religious fault line, primed for explosion. For decades, the…

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History

The History of the Ryder Cup

The story of the Ryder Cup begins in the early 20th century, at a time when golf was growing in…

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Biographies

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu stands as one of the most compassionate, charismatic and courageous moral leaders of the twentieth and…

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Mysteries

The Mystery of the Lost Civilisation of the Indus Valley

More than four thousand years ago, long before the Roman Empire rose and about the same time as the pyramids…

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Warfare

The Battle of Bosworth

The morning of 22 August 1485 was cool and grey over the fields south of Market Bosworth. Men woke stiff…

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Murder

The Lake Bodom Murders

On a warm early-summer weekend in 1960, four teenagers from the Helsinki area did what teenagers everywhere have done for…

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