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The One Thousand and One Nights

The One Thousand and One Nights are a collection of fantastical stories of flying carpets, magic...

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Adventures with dentures: The story of dentistry

Until the eighteenth century there were no professional dentists. The only way to deal with a...

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B R Ambedkar: the Dalit hero of India

Educate, Agitate, Organise. This was the motto of the Indian scholar BR Ambedkar who led an...

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Making waves: the history of swimming

Common to many cultures across the world, swimming appears on the surface to be a benign leisure...

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Abraham Maslow’s psychology of human needs

Many students of psychology, business, nursing and other disciplines are taught about "Maslow's...

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The Kalevala: the Finnish epic that inspired a nation

When the Kalevala was published in 1835, Finland had a distinct cultural and linguistic identity...

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Sister Juana, a great mind of Mexico

Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz is celebrated today as one of the finest poets in the history of...

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Mermaids: Tales from the deep

We delve into the watery depths of sea creature folklore, with a round-the-world tour of...

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Eleusinian Mysteries: secret ceremonies and the promise of happiness

In ancient Greece, thousands of people flocked each year to join the religious rites known as the...

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Toussaint L’Ouverture: Hero of the Haitian slave rebellion

Late 18th-century Saint Domingue in the Caribbean – now known as Haiti – was one of the richest...

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Olympe de Gouges: France’s forgotten revolutionary heroine

She fought to give women the right to divorce and campaigned on behalf of children born out of...

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Alexandre Yersin and the race to fight the plague

When Alexandre Yersin discovered one of the most lethal bacteria in human history, the tiny...

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Famous hats in history

There have been so many, probably hundreds, different styles and types of hat in history that a...

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Mugham: the sound of Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan’s strategic location along the old Silk Road and its wealth of natural resources has...

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The Kingdom of Aksum: Africa's trading empire

At its height, the Aksumite Empire extended across the northern Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands,...

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Umm Kulthum: Egypt’s singing superstar

Umm Kulthum’s powerful voice and talent for communicating poetry was spotted early, when she...

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Alexandre Dumas: the man behind the Musketeers

The word 'swashbuckling' is often used to describe the novels of Alexandre Dumas the Elder, the...

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Unlocking the mysteries of cuneiform tablets

Cuneiform is an ancient writing system distinguished by wedge-shaped marks made into clay. It...

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First impressions: The printing press

When the fifteenth century German entrepreneur Johannes Gutenberg pioneered the printing press,...

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The woman whose cells changed medical history

The story of a young mother who unwittingly left behind a vast medical legacy. Henrietta Lacks...

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