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Charles de Gaulle is Sentenced to Death

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The Black Hawk War: Fighting Back Against US Westward Expansion

As the United States expanded westwards, Native Americans were subjected to cultural genocide, foreign diseases, and territorial loss. Faced with destruction and herded onto reservations, many Native Americans resisted what was happening to them and decided to take action.   In 1832, a Sauk leader named Black Hawk left the Iowa Indian Territory with […]

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The Forgotten Irish Kingdom in Dark Age Britain

It is well known that large numbers of Irish settlers migrated to western Britain, especially western Wales, during the early Dark Ages. This was mostly after, but some also before, the fall of Roman Britain. They managed to establish a relatively long-lasting kingdom in Dyfed, southwest Wales, and an even more significant Irish kingdom […]

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Saving Jesus: An Interview with Broadcasting Legend Melvyn Bragg, 1984

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