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  2. 31 Dec 2018

    Child carrying a quart of ale from the local in her bare feet ! Angel Meadows c.1890

  3. Jan 3

    How the Incas recorded information in tangles of knotted string.

  4. Jan 3

    Berbera was the main port of call for Hajj pilgrims in the Somali Peninsula. In addition, the author also notes that the Somalis are more steadfast in their pilgrimage duties compared to the Swahili.

  5. Jan 3

    When Napoleon invaded Egypt in the 1790s, he took scholars with him. In 1799, near the town of Rosetta, troops found the Rosetta Stone. The scholars realized it had the same message carved in Greek, demotic and hieroglyphs.

  6. Jan 3

    Guericke's unicorn at the Natural History Museum in (Germany). Otto von Guericke, by then mayor of Magdeburg, interpretated bones of a woolly rhinoceros as those of a and presented this reconstruction in 1672.

  7. 18 hours ago

    Only elites, like royals, nobles, priests and scribes, could read hieroglyphs. These people made up about 3% of the population. Scribes went to special schools and some began training at age 12. Students had to begin by learning 200 different signs.

  8. Jan 3

    A photograph of Ashanti nobility from the Dapaah Family Photography Archives. Circa. Mid 1950s. Our Paternal Grandfather, Kwabena Matthew Dapaah-Danquah (left), flanks an Ashanti chief.

  9. 21 hours ago

    France Since about 700 BC To 600 BC Gaul was populated by Celtic peoples. The Celtic Gauls are often seen today as ancestors of the French. 📷Wp

    Pont Alexandre III
  10. Jan 3

    Proud of Kyrsten Sinema to become the first person to openly slay a Senate swearing-in outfit.

  11. Enhance your knowledge and trace your family tree at one of the Durham County Record Office courses this month.

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    2016 Reader's Favorite GOLD medal WITCHCRAFT SEWING CAN BE DANGEROUS

  13. Jan 3

    1941. The first British paratroops.

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    We are hosting another MEET THE PROFESSOR! Come to AB4 room 452 the day before class, January 15th to meet your professors before classes start!

  17. 12 hours ago

    Other mummies were discovered in caches. During the 21st Dynasty, priests gathered the bodies of many pharaohs and put them in a single tomb to protect them. The Deir el-Bahri cache is the most famous of these mass burial sites.

  18. 21 hours ago

    Today in 1642, King Charles I enters the English House of Commons in an attempt to arrest five puritan members of parliament, violating centuries of parliamentary privilege. This act sparked the first phase of the English Civil War, which lasted until 1646.

  19. 10 hours ago

    Please Honor 22 Service Members Who Fell January 5th Serving During The 🌎 🇺🇸🌟

  20. 32 minutes ago

    😡HE BROUGHT GENOCIDE AND SLAVERY 8,000,000 alone died in Hispaniola while he was governor: 99% of the population. But a black man made him pay for his crimes. Read the NEVER before told: ▶️

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