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The Necromancy of Joann Georg Schrepfer

Johann George Schrepfer’s life story is clouded by his embellished and falsified tales of his necromancy and spiritualism. And both ...
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It’s a Plane, It’s a Van, It’s the Flying Flamingo

Gino Lucci is used to getting double takes when he hits the road in his custom motorhome. After all, how ...
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How Did the Swiss Army Knife Become the Original Multitool?

In more than 20 years of service in the Army National Guard, your humble scribe came into contact with all ...
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How 1916’s Matawan Man-Eater Made Us Afraid of Sharks Today

From every year’s Shark Week programming to bull sharks swimming in the streets of Fort Myers, Florida, after Hurricane Ian, ...
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‘The Greatest Beer Run Ever’ is Actually A Sobering War Movie

“Full Metal Jacket,” “Saving Private Ryan” and “Apocalypse Now” are a handful of titles that surface during discussions about movies ...
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9 Facts About Native American Tribes

Since time immemorial, Native Americans have lived on this continent, from the northern reaches of Alaska to the Gulf Coast ...
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9 Facts About Native American Tribes

Since time immemorial, Native Americans have lived on this continent, from the northern reaches of Alaska to the Gulf Coast ...
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Vietnam War Armored Cavalry in Photos

The 11th Armored Cavalry “Blackhorse” Regiment traces its origins to the 11th Cavalry Regiment, formed in 1901. After a series ...
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How American Revolutionaries Ran This Wealthy British Loyalist Family Out of Philadelphia

Fists banged on Grace Galloway’s front door early on the morning of Thursday, August 20, 1778. From the entryway where ...
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How American Revolutionaries Ran This Wealthy British Loyalist Family Out of Philadelphia

Fists banged on Grace Galloway’s front door early on the morning of Thursday, August 20, 1778. From the entryway where ...
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Mikhail Gorbachev – Release of Irina Ratushinskaya

Mikhail Gorbachev - the last leader of the Soviet Union - has died aged 91. On the eve of an ...
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Mikhail Gorbachev – Perestroika

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, has died aged 91. Gorbachev came to power in 1985 at ...
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Introducing: Sisters of the Underground

Sisters of the Underground is an 8-episode scripted series by Executive Producers Eva Longoria and Dania Ramirez. It follows the ...
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Princess Diana dances with John Travolta

It's the 25th anniversary of the death of Princess Diana, who was killed in a car crash in an underground ...
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The ‘Last Indian’

In 1911, a mysterious Native American man called Ishi emerged from the North Californian forest after more than three decades ...
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Marikana Massacre

On 16 August 2012, police shot dead 34 striking miners at a platinum mine in Marikana, South Africa. It was ...
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India’s onion election

In January 1980, Indira Gandhi's Congress (I) party was voted into power in India. Before the election, inflation meant that ...
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The ‘Nixon Shock’ and the end of the Gold Standard

In 1971, inflation was a huge problem in the USA so the President, Richard Nixon, made one of the most ...
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The Gay Games

It has been 40 years since the first ever Gay Games were held in San Francisco. Attracting a large crowd ...
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Hundreds die in Darayya

Ten years ago, Syrian government soldiers surrounded Darayya, a suburb of Damascus, bombing buildings and searching for people opposed to ...
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Fractal Curves: From the Esoteric to the Ubiquitous – Professor Kenneth Falconer

Professor Kenneth Falconer delievers his lecture on 'Fractal Curves: From the Esoteric to the Ubiquitous' gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/curves-in-honour-of-leibnizs-tercentenary The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College ...
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Beyond Surprise and Satisfy: A New Theory of Performance – Professor David Owen Norris

World renowned pianist and academic, Professor David Owen Norris breaks down a new understanding of performance success: gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/beyond-surprise-or-satisfy-a-new-theory-of-performance That the key to an audience's attention is to fulfil or frustrate ...
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Ludwig van Beethoven Op 95 in F minor

This quartet, which was composed in 1810 or 1811 and is his last before the so-called "late" quartets that crowned his final years. It is sometime nicknamed the "Serioso" (a ...
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Joseph Haydn, Op 76 No 5 in D major

Haydn was always an experimenter, and this quartet is one of his most unusual, in that the customary balance between the first two movements is reversed. The first movement is ...
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The Psychology of Performing Arts: The power of music

How does music exert such extraordinary effects on our emotions? To what extent does it depend upon our nature (biological rhythms, instinctive reactions to certain sound patterns) and to what ...
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London: A microcosm of global health

London: a microcosm of global health... or life and death on the Piccadilly line. While some people feel "overtasked, overstrained and overlived in this close London life", others thrive in ...
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The London Insurance and Reinsurance Market

"Lloyd's is the McDonald's of the Insurance Industry" London is still considered as the world's insurance and reinsurance centre. But no professional reinsurance company is owned by UK shareholders - ...
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The Times of Our Lives: A history of longevity

Notwithstanding bible stories, the average human lifespan has reached "three score years and ten" only through spectacular increases in the past two centuries, and only in the richer half of ...
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Shall Future Generations eat fish or Whales? – Sidney J Holt

In the mid-twentieth century the Southern Ocean whaling industry was the world's biggest fishery. Since then, most whale species have been depleted to near extinction, most fisheries have declined and ...
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