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In the ever shifting theatre of global militancy, women are no longer just sitting in the wings, but have, unfortunately, ...

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At its peak, the Old Babylonian Empire rose to be one of the biggest civilizations the world had seen–but what was daily life ...

This description of the teething process comes from a 3,000-year-old medical handbook from ancient Assyria and Babylonia. The ...

From the first ever Alien series to the new run of Netflix's Addams Family spin-off and a true-crime drama about Amanda Knox.

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Like the Byzantines, whose empire survived on ceremony long after it lost its soul, Nigeria developed the rituals of state ...

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