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• The Fate of Global Jihad a Decade After September 11th

  

  Photo courtesy of iStockphoto. Photo credit: Lowell Gordon Photography This Sunday it will have been ten years since Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network... Read more

  The 10 September 2011 by   Realizingresonance
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• The Ruins Of Detroit

  

  image credit Up and down Detroit's streets, buildings stand abandoned and in ruin. French photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre set out to document... Read more

  The 09 September 2011 by   Gerard
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• Lavochkin La-5 Soviet Fighter

  Serving on the eastern front during WWII, the La-5 is the production model of the I-301 and later LaGG-1 prototypes first initiated on 29 July 1939. The... Read more

  The 09 September 2011 by   Sfalcont
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• The Political Hot Potato

  

  image credit Vital. Maligned. Mysterious. How well do you really know the potato? During the 16th century, Europeans fell in love with a number of exotic plant... Read more

  The 08 September 2011 by   Gerard
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• From Defense to Decoration: the Renwick Gallery in the Civil War

  

  The history of American Art's Renwick Gallery is a rich one. Recently, The Bigger Picture, the blog of the Smithsonian Institution Archives posted a story... Read more

  The 06 September 2011 by   Americanart
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• No Bull: The Mithras Cult & Christianity

  

  In his 1880 Hibbert Lecture on the history of early Christianity, Ernest Renan commented: “I sometimes permit myself to say that, if Christianity had not carrie... Read more

  The 05 September 2011 by   Cris
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• Lantern Houses

  

  The fifteenth and sixteenth-century houses of Morlaix, on the northern coast of Brittany, are unique. Wealth from the linen industry and maritime trade... Read more

  The 31 August 2011 by   Carolineld
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• The Story Of The Most Misused Social Security Number Of All Time

  

  The most misused Social Security Number of all time was 078-05-1120. In 1938, a wallet manufacturer decided to promote its product by showing how a Social... Read more

  The 30 August 2011 by   Gerard
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• From the Archives: Deptford and Fingerprints

  

  Deptford has a little-known place in legal history. A horrific crime on the High Street led to the use of a then-novel form of evidence. Although their... Read more

  The 29 August 2011 by   Carolineld
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• Blackfoot Decorated Tipis Circa 1900

  

  image credit In 1896 American photographer Walter McClintock west for a federal commission investigating national forests. McClintock became friends with the... Read more

  The 29 August 2011 by   Gerard
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