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Weekly History Quiz No.340

1. How long elapsed between the French revolution and the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy?
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Poet, playwright, spy: Stephen Greenblatt conjures the brilliant life of Christopher Marlowe

Reading time: 11 minutes
In Dark Renaissance, his new biography of Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), Stephen Greenblatt shares a trait with Marlowe and the Elizabethan playwright’s most famous character, Doctor Faustus: a desire to conjure.

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The high‑tech shipbuilding methods that helped Vikings dominate the seas

Reading time: 5 minutes
Images of the sleek keels, elegant planks, and dragon-headed prows of Viking longships have been reproduced countless times on postcards, book covers, souvenirs and in television shows and movies. These vessels are, quite literally, the poster-ships for the Viking Age, which was between around 750 and 1100 CE. So what made these ships so special?...


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Weekly History Quiz No.339

1. When was the first recorded customer complaint in history?
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The scientific genius who eschewed fame: remembering Thomas Harriot, 400 years on

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Four hundred years ago, on July 2 1621, a remarkable Englishman named Thomas Harriot died in London. He left behind some 8,000 pages of scientific research, but it is only in recent decades that scholars have uncovered their treasures. And what they show is that Harriot independently made many significant discoveries now attributed to other, more...


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