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Whether you are a student, researcher, or history enthusiast, this archive serves as a fascinating portal into the past, offering insights into the motives, actions, and societal impacts of some of the most intriguing figures and groups in history. This collection is not just about the individua...
Why These Movies Are Worth Going Back to the 80's: Centered on the development of atomic weapons during World War II, Fat Man and Little Boy features Paul Newman and Dwight Schultz in compelling portrayals of key figures behind this pivotal moment in history. This thou...
Religion became more complex: along with totemism and animism, the matrilineal-clan worship of female keepers of home and hearth underwent further development. In the Bronze Age (third and second millennia B.C), centers of metallurgy arose in Ciscarpathia, the Northern Caucasus, the Urals, and ...
Corman’s Faustian seekers are figures consumed by their own relentless desires for the illusory promises of whatever grail they chase, are swapped for the more properly heroic questers in movies like The Saga of the Viking Women and War of the Satellites: Corman’s heroic questers enact on ...
List of the top 10 global female historical figures by PageRank and 2DRank for all the 24 Wikipedia editions.YoungHo EomPablo AragónDavid LaniadoAndreas KaltenbrunnerSebastiano VignaDima L. Shepelyansky
Claudia Gordon stands out as a contemporary figure in the intersection of deafness and law. As the first deaf black female attorney in the United States, Gordon’s journey through law school and her subsequent career is a testament to her resilience and determination. Her work in advocating for...
Harry Turtledove frequently makes references to historical figures in his works, particularly his alternate history tales. The people referenced have usually been dead for some time before the work's setting, and, in the case of alternate histories, for quite some time before the Point of Divergen...
Acknowledgments: I would like to thank Mary Elizabeth Ibarrola for drafting Figures 2–4. Additional thanks are offered to the personnel of the original Freedman’s Cemetery Project, as well as Dallas’s historical and modern African American community. ...
Perceptions of historical figures are often very different from reality. Descriptions of prolific men and women across the ages may or may not line up with ...