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Austria turns Hitler’s birthplace into police station
The house where Adolf Hitler was born in the Austrian town of Braunau am Inn will be turned into a police station, opening its doors today after several ye…
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Why do coins have jagged edges?
This is not a random design element, but an ingenious invention from the past to protect against clever thieves. This technological measure has fortunately survived to this day.
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William III shares the royal scepter of England, Scotland, and Ireland with his wife Mary II
She was loyal to the Church of England and when in 1677 her father gave her to the young ruler of the then Netherlands.
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Hidden Inequalities in the Middle East – the Power of Names
The region of the Middle East and North Africa is a good example of how imperialism actively underdeveloped a place, resulting in inequalities present until today. Issues often explained by...
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Colonial Imperialism – the Fundament of Inequalities
The institutionalisation of European colonial imperialism from the 15th century onwards led to two main unequal developments – (1) the subordination of the colonised to the metropole, and (2) –...
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Underdevelopments – The Beginnings of Modern Inequality
More than 95 per cent of the children in EU countries attend early childhood education, leaving very few of them without schooling, because of different reasons (European Commission 2025). Globally,...
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Canaan
Canaan (Hebrew: כְּנַעַן Kəna‘an – “submissive, subject”) was the son of Ham and grandson of Noah (Gen. 9:18). After Ham’s disrespect for Noah, the latter pronounced a curse not on...
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Sacrifice for Science: Why Galileo Galilei’s Fingers and Teeth Are in a Museum
When Galileo died in 1642, the Catholic Church flatly refused to allow him to be buried in consecrated ground because of his heretical theories at the time More than 380...
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What Jesus Probably Ate According to Historical Records
What Jesus Probably Ate in First-Century Galilee No historical source gives a complete list of what Jesus of Nazareth ate. Yet the Gospels, Jewish texts, archaeology and food historians offer...
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The father of corruption in Russia, Prince Menshikov
Peter the Great always knew Menshikov to be a vile and thieving man. But they had been close since their youth. Peter had caught Menshikov red-handed, pulled his hair, and...