The Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, or VOC) was the most valuable corporation in history. It was founded in 1602 to trade mainly in spices and quickly became the most influential company in the world. The company had a 21-year monopoly granted by the Dutch government on many of the world’s markets and […]
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History is rife with military operations that have gone awry due to terrible oversight mistakes, tactical or otherwise. These errors and their repercussions have shaped the course of known history, impacting conflicts as important as the second world war (WWII) and as old as the Punic Wars. These military blunders were due to various reasons,
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History has it that no king was ruling over England after the death of King Uther Pendragon, the legendary king of the Briton and also the father of King Arthur. After Uther’s death, the nobles of Britain disputed the right of succession for their next king. Merlin, the mythical character, orchestrated and foretold the future
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The Lakota are among the oldest Native American tribes and part of the larger group of Sioux tribes in the Midwest. They have been an integral part of the region for centuries, living off the land and preserving their traditions and practices. The Lakota were a nomadic tribe that roamed what is now known as
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What the longest-running routes of the African slave trade looked like on the other side of the continent. In American and European schools, the history of slavery is largely taught from the perspective of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, which stole millions of Africans from their homelands in North and Central Africa to the Americas and
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La Llorona, Spanish for “the Weeping Woman,” is a mythical, vicious ghost of Hispanic-American origin, said to wander coasts and waterfronts mourning her children she drowned. La Llorona’s ghost story is arguably the most widely and enthusiastically discussed, interpreted, and sometimes conflated in all Latin American and Spanish communities in the US. But the overarching
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The Apache is a group of Native American tribes with similar cultures and languages. Tribes such as the Jicarilla, Chiricahua, Mescalero, Lipan, Trementina, Conejero, Limita, and Kiowa are part of the Apache people. The word “Apache” came from the Zuni language, meaning “enemy.” Apache Indians referred to themselves as the “nde,” “inde,” or “ndee” peoples.
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Since the first man walked the earth, observed values, vices, and ethos about any group of people at any point in time can be traced back to supernatural entities — gods, devils, angels, demons, and everything in between. Every culture, from the Romans to the Greeks, the Egyptians, and many others, has a pantheon representing
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The Statue of Liberty has become a beacon for American freedom, standing proud for around 150 years in the waters of New York. Yet, few people know what it took to construct such an iconic landmark, and even fewer have seen pictures taken during its construction. The statue was completed in 1884 and shipped from
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The story of Thorvald Eiriksson is incomplete without talking about the Icelandic Saga. Written in the 13th and 14th centuries, the saga is a collection of histories describing Norsemen’s settlement of Iceland and Greenland in the 10th and 11th centuries. Although many historians have claimed that the sagas are unreliable. Eirik Thorvaldsson, commonly known as
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