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Barbary Pirates and English Slaves
For over 300 years, the coastlines of the English Channel and south west of England were at the mercy of Barbary pirates. Men, women and children were kidnapped to be sold as slaves...
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Conveniently forgot to mention that the English navy turned a blind eye to the Barbary Pirates because James the VI thought it was a better way to take care of Cornish, Welsh, Irish and Scottish smugglers than waisting his navy ships on chasing down the smugglers when he needed his ships to protect ... View More
- April 15, 2022
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Interview: Queens of Jerusalem, the Women Who Dared to Rule by Katherine Pangonis
Join World History Encyclopedia as they chat with medievalist Katherine Pangonis, all about her new book Queens of Jerusalem, the Women Who Dared to Rule. Kelly: Do you want to start off by telling...
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The Concept of Music in Ancient Mesopotamia
We know something about how Mesopotamian music sounded but what did they think about music? Not surprisingly, texts describing the great dedication music required are about kings.
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Christianity
Christianity is the world’s largest religion, with 2.8 billion adherents. It is categorized as one of the three Abrahamic or monotheistic religions of the Western tradition along with Judaism and Isla...
Marie Dentière’s A Very Useful Epistle
A Very Useful Epistle (Epistre tres utile, 1539) is an open letter by the female reformer Marie Dentière (l. c. 1495-1561) to Marguerite of Navarre (l. 1492-1549) advocating for a greater role for wom...
Pizan’s The Status of Women & the Reformation
The Book of the City of the Ladies (1405) by Christine de Pizan (l. 1364 - c. 1430) is considered by many scholars to be the first work of feminist literature, predating A Vindication of the Rights...
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Don't you just wish we could go back to when Queens ruled the world instead of Kings?
- April 13, 2022
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Isaiah
Isaiah was one of the major prophets of ancient Israel. Isaiah is Hebrew for
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#OTD On April 12, 1961, aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space. During the flight, the 27-year-old test pilot and... View More
International Day of Human Space Flight: April 12 marks 61 years since the first human in space
The UN General Assembly, in 2011, declared 12 April as the International Day of Human Space Flight “to celebrate each year at the international level the beginning of the space era for mankind”
