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French Revolution - Constitution of 1791
The Constitution of 1791 was the first written constitution in France. One of the basic precepts of the revolution was adopting constitutionality and establishing popular sovereignty.
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Powder and Patch in the English 17th Century
So many seventeenth-century portraits feature women with smooth, perfectly white complexions. The makeup used by the subjects, both being comprised chiefly of white lead.
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French Revolution - The Constitution of 1791
The short-lived French Constitution of 1791 was the first written constitution in France, created after the collapse of the absolute monarchy of the Ancien Régime...
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Ancient Egypt - The Tale of Sinuhe
The Middle Kingdom of ancient Egypt (2000 BCE – 1700 BCE) saw the start of more formal writing which included religious scripts, administrative notes, and more in-depth fictional writing
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Demeter’s Daughters: Women of the Thesmophoria
In the indigo light of the early morning, wearing white robes and carrying torches, the pious women ascended the hill to the Thesmophorion (sanctuary to Demeter) in observance...
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Money and Coins in Ancient Greece
When we talk about money in the ancient world, we are talking about coins… or at the very least, metal. Now, not surprisingly, the Greek philosophers had plenty to say on this topic...
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Ancient Greece - Hippocrates, the father of Medicine
Hippocrates embodied the perfect doctor: kind, wise, old, knowledgeable, with a long beard and profound wrinkles around perceptive eyes. At least that is what we’d like to think....
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The machine gun of Ancient Greece
The polybolos was a type of weapon used in the ancient world. The polybolos has been described as a sort of ballista / catapult that was capable of firing several projectiles before needing to be reloaded.
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Euripides´ Hippolytus, Love and law
There’s a reason Euripides is often called the “people’s poet.” Though his plays were not the most popular in their own time, after his death they were soon recognized for their incredible attention to character.
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The Rise and fall of the Delian League
The Delian League, was the name used for the confederation of Greek states under the ‘leadership’ of Athens. According to some records, it lasted until the end of the Peloponnesian War in the year 404 BC.
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