The End of a Superpower – The Collapse of the Soviet Union
Collapse of the Soviet Union Russian President Vladimir Putin described the collapse of the Soviet Union as “the greatest geopolitical[…]
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Category: History
History of the World
Simon De Montfort: The Friendship That Led to Civil War | Britain’s Bloodiest Dynasty | Chronicle
History Documentaries The history of the Plantagenets continues with the story of King Henry III and his treacherous brother-in-law Simon[…]
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How to Celebrate Christmas…Medieval Style! | Tudor Monastery Farm Christmas | Chronicle
History Documentaries Although Christmas was celebrated very differently in Tudor times, if anything the celebrations were even bigger. Historian Ruth[…]
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When New York Destroyed a Skyscraper in its Prime | The Rise and Fall of Gillender Tower
History Documentaries In the late 19th century, the Gillender building was finished. Even though it was regarded as one of[…]
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The Mystery Of 536 AD: The Worst Climate Disaster In History | Catastrophe | Timeline
A Climatic catastrophe that rocked the Earth in A.D. 535 Researching a climatic catastrophe that rocked the Earth in A.D.[…]
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Why Did Hitler Invade The Soviet Union? | Battles Won And Lost
History Retracing The Conflicts of WW 2 – Across every theatre of the Second World War battle strategies were designed[…]
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The Mission to Restore Ancient Rome’s Colosseum
History Two thousand years after it was built, the Colosseum is in dire need of repair; a look at how[…]
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Guerilla Warriors: The Military Tactics Of Native American Tribes
History Long before the first Europeans set foot on American soil, the native people who lived there had spent centuries[…]
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What It’s Like to Live In The Diomedes, The Two Tiny Islands In The Middle Of Russia and Alaska
History For a few dozen Alaskan Iñupiat natives, it is possible to see Russia from their house. Just below the[…]
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How Nazis Infiltrated America’s Intelligence Agencies | Nazis In The CIA
History Florian Hartung and Dirk Pohlmann have reconstructed a previously unknown dimension of the collaboration between Nazis and the CIA[…]
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