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Discovery Of Bronze Age Warrior’s Kit Sheds New Light On An Epic Prehistoric Battle
A knife, chisel, arrowheads and other gear belonging to a Bronze Age warrior have been uncovered on a 3,300-year-old battlefield in Germany.
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A History Of The 7 Deadly Sins, And Why They’re Such A Popular Trope In Fiction
Pride. Greed. Gluttony. Lust. Sloth. Envy And, of course…the Wrath of Khan. These are the Seven Deadly Sins, a list of seven forbidden acts from Christianity that, if committed, equal a one-way ticket to the Bad Place. But they’re also a widely used trope in fiction, a way for some people to contextualise, and compartmentalise,…
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Fragment Of Medieval Poem About A Talking Vulva Found In Austrian Library
The surprising discovery of a fragment inscribed with an old German poem, in which a female virgin argues with her genitals about who is more desirable to men, pushes the origin of the poem back 200 years, changing our conceptions of sexuality in the Middle Ages.
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This 1960s Comic Strip Claimed Nuclear Explosions Were The Future Of Road Construction
Nuclear weapons can wipe out an entire city in the blink of an eye, but what about all the good they can do? That was the pitch from this 1965 comic strip that extolled the virtues of nuclear bombs to build everything from highways to a “second Panama canal.”