A Very Modern Map of Britain's Ancient Roman Roads

Let's take the VII from Londinium to Letocetum.
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Why Are Americans So Afraid?

In December 2016, at a rally in North Carolina, a 12-year-old girl looked at then candidate Donald Trump, "I'm scared," she said. “What are you going to do to protect this country?” “You know what, darling?” Trump replied. “You’re not going to be scared anymore. They’re going to be scared.”
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Pemberley, Manderley and Howards End: the real buildings behind fictional houses

From Charlotte Brontë’s Norton Conyers to Alan Hollinghurst’s Canford Court – the little known locations that inspired the most famous homes in literature
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Postcards from a picture-perfect Japan

How a business-savvy 19th-century photographer from Austria fashioned the West’s image of Japan.
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Opinion | We Need a Radical New Approach on North Korea

Sharp rhetoric will get us nowhere. It’s time for the U.S. to abandon its longstanding “One Korea” policy.
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Travel the path of the solar eclipse

Follow the shadow of the moon as it completely blocks out the sun on Aug. 21, moving along a 3,000-mile path from Oregon’s Pacific coast to the eastern shore of South Carolina.
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The First Farmers

The world’s oldest grindstones dating back to 30,000 BCE, plentiful harvests as far as the eye can see and rolling pastures of green straight out of a golf course. An idyllic image bringing u…
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Analysis | 8 important keys to understanding Venezuela’s controversial election

I like how they speak about the risk of destroying the Venezuelan democracy, as if there were one left to destroy.
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What We Can Learn From Finland’s Basic Income Experiment

At the beginning of this year, Finland launched a national experiment to determine the feasibility of universal basic income. However, due to problems with the trial and the country's economy, the results may not prove to be particularly useful.
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Is Putin richer than both Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates? U.S. financier tells senators, he is.

Amazon boss Jeff Bezos made headlines this week when he was declared the richest person in the world with a net worth of $90 billion. But a U.S. financier told senators Thursday that he believed the title belonged to someone else, and it is not Bill Gates. According to Bill Browder, CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, Russian President Vladimir Putin is richer than both Bezos and Gates combined.
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Top 10 Civil War Sites - National Geographic

Top 10 Civil War Sites from National Geographic
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Is Israel Losing the Syrian War?

“Despite assurances to the contrary, Israel has always been involved in the Syria conflict. Israel’s repeated claims that ‘it maintains a policy of non-intervention in Syria’s civil war,’ only fools US mainstream media.” By Ramzy Baroud.
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The Surprising Things Statistics Tell Us About Fiction

In “Nabokov’s Favorite Word Is Mauve,” Ben Blatt uses data to probe the body of conventional wisdom around creative writing.
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Asking the Tough Questions With an 18th-Century Debate Society

Is polygamy justifiable? Is it lawful to eat swine's flesh? By Sarah Laskow.
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Meet the Men Who Literally Dance With Scissors

Forget running with scissors; this competitive Quechua dance takes danger to the next level. (Don’t try this at home.)
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The Mass Grave in the Garden

A Brazilian family discovers the world’s largest mass grave of enslaved people in their backyard.
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What Would Howard Zinn Say?

We turn to the social justice agitator-in-chief for guidance in this "topsy-turvy" world.
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The Long, Forgotten Walk of David Ingram

If three shipwrecked English sailors really did travel by foot from Florida to Nova Scotia in 1569 then it would certainly count as one of the most remarkable walks undertaken in recorded history. Although the account's more fantastical elements, such as the sighting of elephants, have spurred many to consign it to the fiction department, John Toohey argues for a second look.
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Life Inside Hong Kong’s ‘Coffin Cubicles’

Pushed out by the sky-high prices of rent in glittering Hong Kong, these people get by in illegally subdivided apartments.
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America and the Foxconn Dream

Wisconsin is about to shell out as much as $3 billion for the privilege of luring Foxconn Technology Group. At $519 per citizen, it would have been cheaper to buy an iPhone for every man, woman and child in the midwestern state. Let's be clear: The big winner isn't the taxpayer. It's Foxconn and its billionaire chairman Terry Gou. As I predicted several times, Foxconn would only come to the U.S. if and when his demands were met. Meet them is exactly what Wisconsin did, with an offering of tax credits, training grants and infrastructure improvements. In return, Foxconn said it will invest $10 billion and create 3,000 jobs.
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A molten puddle deep under Iceland may reveal where volcanoes get their lava

Ultralow-velocity zones may anchor volcano-feeding mantle plumes
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How India and China Have Come to the Brink Over a Remote Mountain Pass

The two nuclear powers are fighting over a border, but their battle is really over the shape of Asia’s future. By Steven Lee Myers, Ellen Barry and Max Fisher.
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Inside Cuba’s DIY Internet Revolution

To connect to the world, people In Havana have taken matters into their own hands.
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Moon Hill in China

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North Korea May Test a Second Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Any Day Now

North Korea's Hwasong-14 ICBM may fly again soon.
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This 50-Year-Old Singaporean Photographer Stunned The World With The Body Of A 20-Year-Old

Meet Chuando Tan, the Singaporean photographer who will make you wonder just what the hell you're doing wrong in life. Because believe it or not, Tan is actually 50-years-old. Yes. That's right. Five zero. And he seems to be getting younger with age.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Dream Inequality

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Elderly Drivers Are Wreaking Havoc on Japan's Roads

As Japan’s population continues to age, more and more older drivers are behind the wheel.
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The dark side of the eclipse

An estimated 80 percent of Americans live within 600 miles of the eclipse path that includes a wide swath through Missouri from the northwest corner of the state down to just north of the Bootheel. As a result, folks from across the U.S. are expected to descend on the state. If you live or operate a business within 100 miles of the eclipse path, here's what you need to be prepared for.
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Detroit 1967

The Detroit News looks back at the social unrest in the summer of 1967
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These Swedish Nazis Trained In Russia Before Bombing A Center For Asylum Seekers

When two Swedish Nazis thought their group’s leaders had gone soft, they went to train with Russian paramilitaries, before returning home to carry out an attack. Their case shows how nationalist extremism across Europe is being transformed by the conflict in Ukraine.
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The people who dance with fire dragons

In the rural heartland of south-west China, a traditional ceremony with molten iron is performed to bring good luck for the harvest. Watch the video to find out more.
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“Why should the people wait any longer?” How Labour built the NHS

In the aftermath of the Second World War, Britain showed the world that a universal health care system was possible. Anthony Broxton gives a brief account of Nye Bevan’s vision and how he guided the National Health Service Act through parliament.
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The Cesspit of Corruption at the [Spanish] Interior Ministry

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The Twelve Regions of China: Past and Present

Rather than viewing China as a monolith, the country can be understood as twelve distinct regions. First in a series. By John Lee.
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Chinese songs of dignity

The visible and invisible social inequalities in the new China built by migrant workers. By Peter Bengtsen. (June 19, 2017)
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North Dakota's Norway experiment

Can humane prisons work in America? A red state aims to find out.
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From spy to president: The rise of Vladimir Putin

Putin’s intent on pushing back against the Western world order... and it appears to be working.
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You Do Not Think Alone

A new book argues that thought and knowledge are community efforts. By Gareth Cook. (June 20, 2017)
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This conch shell trumpet would be heard far and wide in the ancient world

New tool helps archaeologists “hear” history. By Giorgia Guglielmi.
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Do you want fries with that? Data shows Americanization of English is rising

A new study documents the speed at which American English has stretched around the globe – and its influence is even felt within the UK
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Europe has lost its Polish anchor

After years of being hailed as the shining example of post-Communist success, Poland is being depicted going 'backward.' What happened? And why is this significant for Europe?
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Was This Famous Lincoln Letter Written by His Secretary?

After a century of rumors, textual analysis suggests the Bixby letter sent to a grieving mother was penned by John Hay
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Into the Unknown

His companions died. Food was nearly gone. And Douglas Mawson still had 95 polar miles to go. By David Roberts.
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The Brutal Rise of El Mencho

With El Chapo behind bars, an even more dangerous drug lord has emerged. On the hunt for Mexico’s next-generation narco. By Josh Eells.
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Thou Shall Not Covet thy Neighbor's Cuneiform

As the US press and social media came alive in condemnation as a result of the Hobby Lobby smuggling case, I couldn’t help but notice that while the hashtag #HobbyLobbyisISIS is noticeably attention-grabbing the more important facet of the “is-that-object-looted” puzzle was still being overlooked. By Lynda Albertson. (July 9, 2017)
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What Russian Journalists Think of How American Reporters Cover Putin and Trump

Russian journalists called for less “hysteria” in U.S. news coverage of the Trump-Russian investigation. By Joshua Yaffa. (July 6, 2017)
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1861 The First Battle of Bull Run Video C-SPAN.org

1861 Review: First Battle of Bull Run Adam Goodheart, author of 1861: The Civil War Awakening, talked about the First Battle of Bull Run, also known as First Manassas, held July 21, 1861. He talked about how the battle changed public perceptions of the war. He was interviewed at a portrait of General Winfield Scott in a Civil War exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery.
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How a Corporate Ethnographer Became a Lifestyle Guru

Jan Chipchase set out to write a guide to his esoteric field research. Instead, it’s become a $110 self-help manual for the digitally disaffected.
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School asks 100 graffiti artists to paint it before renovation, and result is better than any renovation.

Most schools looks pretty bland, with safe homogeneous colors and uninspired designs, but one hundred graffiti artists have just turned the boring walls of a dormitory in Paris into a stunning celebration of art and creativity.
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