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Previously, scientists and linguists thought that Uto-Aztecan languages spread into California through the spread of maize farming, but a new study questions that idea.
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The 16th-century “Florentine Codex” offers a Mexican Indigenous perspective that is often missing from historical accounts of the period.
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The expression "shiver me timbers" was first recorded in print in 1795, and since then, it's appeared everywhere from Treasure Island to SpongeBob SquarePants. But it's unclear whether this phrase was ever truly part of the pirate vernacular.
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BU anthropologist Fallou Ngom discovered Ajami, a modified Arabic script, in a box of his late father’s old papers
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Before the 20th century, clowns in American circuses were largely considered a form of adult entertainment, writes this historian.
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For a long time, the word "condom" was unprintable. Neither the original OED nor The Century Dictionary featured the word. Several venues for discovering the origin of "condom" have been tried. It surfaced in texts at the beginning of the eighteenth century, but we cannot be sure that the word was coined in England.
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Despite his fearsome reputation, the real life Blackbeard had a surprising record of not killing his victims, which Our Flag Means Death explains.
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The concept of “offline” is built on the earlier concept of “wilderness,” inheriting its flaws and hazards
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The seminal tabletop RPG drew from generations of wargaming, storytelling and parlour games.
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European travellers and anthropologists found that their gendered worldview didn’t easily map onto the societies they encountered.
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From Gandhi to Alexander the Great, history is filled with queer folks who had to conceal their identity
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With unprecedented economic inequality and massive overspending on military expansion, America now looks a lot like 476 CE Rome.
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Many scientific studies assume that the features of painted faces are the facts of the flesh-and-blood countenances to which they refer. This assumption is not only false; it is preposterous.
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Discussing bad historical takes through the lens of sci-fi literature.
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This traditional art from Guangzhou can never be produced legally again.
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When real-world stuff is too implausible to put in a movie like Cabaret.
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First thought to belong to an English lady-in-waiting, the lavish silk clothing from a 17th-century Dutch vessel is just one of many mysteries surrounding the last voyage of the Palmwood Wreck.
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I was lucky enough to see this exhibition on tour in Bucharest.
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And this is why you never override browser shortcuts. I don't care what you think you're accomplishing. Just don't.
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Ban on depictions has not always been absolute – Islam has a rich heritage of images and icons dating back to the 13th century
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