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- Pazyryk Swan: A 2,400-year-old plush swan from Siberia tied to the 'creation of the universe'www.livescience.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Submitted 4 months ago by FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone | 66 comments
- Submitted 2 weeks ago by someguy3@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- A Night at the Garden - 1939 pro-Nazi rally in New York’s Madison Square Garden archival footageanightatthegarden.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago by vovo@lemmy.dbzer0.com | 13 comments
- Are there other notable assassinations in recent or not-so-recent history that brought out overwhelming public support, such as, perhaps, when Gavrilo Princip shot the Archduke Franz Ferdinand?lemmy.world ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago by Asidonhopo@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Onesimus was an African man who was instrumental in the mitigation of smallpox in Boston by teaching the variolation method of inoculationen.wikipedia.org ↗Submitted 2 months ago by frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml | 3 comments
- Submitted 3 months ago by FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone | 10 comments
- Submitted 8 months ago by HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world | 12 comments
- Submitted 3 months ago by JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee | 2 comments
- Pandemics causing death are linked with increases in support for radical political movements, all the way back to the 1918 flu pandemic and the birth of 20th century fascismwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ↗Submitted 6 months ago by mozz@mbin.grits.dev | 9 comments
- Excavators studying ancient Egyptian tombs discovered that even the ultra-wealthy suffered from disease and malnutritionwww.businessinsider.com ↗Submitted 6 months ago by ooli@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago by Amoxtli@thelemmy.club | 0 comments
- "Columbia demands her children!" Anti-Lincoln, anti-civil war propaganda (US, 1864) [Context and Commentary in OP]lemmy.blahaj.zone ↗Submitted 3 months ago by FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone | 0 comments
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- Submitted 2 months ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca | 0 comments
- Submitted 5 months ago by CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org | 14 comments
- Exclusive: 'Dead Sea Scrolls' at the Museum of the Bible are all forgerieswww.nationalgeographic.com ↗Submitted 1 year ago by ooli@lemmy.world | 24 comments
- Submitted 6 months ago by BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place | 5 comments
- Submitted 1 year ago by Salamendacious@lemmy.world | 40 comments
- Submitted 8 months ago by Wilshire@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Submitted 3 months ago by ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net | 0 comments
- Submitted 6 months ago by BuddyTheBeefalo@lemmy.ml | 1 comment
- Submitted 8 months ago by RagingHungryPanda@lemm.ee | 4 comments
- He Was an Anti-Racist Vegan Radical... in 1738 - the extraordinary life and mind of Benjamin Lay | Atun-Shei Filmswww.youtube.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago by ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net | 0 comments
- Submitted 3 months ago by RagingHungryPanda@lemm.ee | 0 comments
- Submitted 4 months ago by john89@lemmy.ca | 6 comments
- Submitted 5 months ago by ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net | 6 comments
- Submitted 10 months ago by HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world | 20 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago by ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net | 1 comment
- New study provides new evidence that the Antikythera mechanism was used to track the Greek lunar yearanatolianarchaeology.net ↗Submitted 6 months ago by ooli@lemmy.world | 2 comments