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Athelstan: King of Malmesbury and the Forgotten Library
BEFORE THE CANON IV In the centre of Malmesbury, in...
Lake Nemi: The Floating Palaces of Diana’s Mirror
On 15 July 1535, a Bolognese soldier and engineer...
The Ancient Finds of America: Too Deep to Be a Joke
Three men, working three different rigs across three different...
Aether: The 1729 Debate Over What Fills the Heavens
Editorial Note The entry below ran as two installments of...
The Body Is Light: Rainbow Body and the Memory of Human Capacity
In September 1998, a Tibetan Buddhist master named Khenchen Tsewang Rigdzin died in eastern Tibet. Over the days that followed, witnesses reported that his...
St Patrick: The Patron Saint Who Wasn’t Irish
Two documents survive in St Patrick's own hand: a declaration of faith and an open letter of protest. From these, the facts are spare....
Christ’s Coming: When Was the True Birth of Christ?
Each year, four days after the solstice, the birth of Christ is marked across much of the world. The sun, having reached its lowest...
The Hidden History of St Nicholas and the Absorption of the Wild
Saint Nicholas is remembered today as a kindly bishop, the bearer of gifts, and the patron of children. But the figure we now celebrate...
Pompeii’s True Burial: Could It Have Happened in 1700?
For centuries, history has held that Pompeii met its fiery end in 79 CE, buried beneath the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius. However, an...
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The Ingenious Creator of the Hereford Mappa Mundi
The Hereford Mappa Mundi is one of the most...
Airship NORGE: The First to Conquer the North Pole
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