University of Iowa guard Caitlin Clark celebrates after making the game-winning shot against Michigan State on Jan. 2, 2024.
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Before being pushed aside by the NCAA, the AIAW, which was designed for and by women, governed women’s college athletics.
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Being unable to agree on a united national memorial shows just how disunited Wales had been.
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Pope Gregory XIII was patron of Rome’s renaissance, and a legal luminary whose influence transcends the ages.
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One of the earliest known references to asbestos may come from Theophrastus, a student of Aristotle and his successor at the Lyceum in Athens.
A farmer paddles to his fields on an artificial island among canals, part of an ancient Aztec system known as chinampas, in 2021.
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Agricultural sustainability is as much about power and sovereignty as it is about soil, water and crops.
Police find bog body dated over 2,000 years in Bellaghy.
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The bog does not neatly divide traces of the distant and recent past. Archaeology and forensic science still have much to learn from each other.
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Conservative critics argue the ‘social responsibility’ of business lies in increasing profits. But values have always been tied up with money-making, from the welfare state to colonialism.
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A thrillingly accurate Stone Age horror, a violent Chilean wester, a sumptuous food romance, a comforting rom-com and a new look at a master painter’s love of fashion.
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When parliament blocked a radical MP from taking his seat in parliament, Burke warned that ignoring the people’s democratic will could have disastrous consequences.
(Left to right) A Roman shield, a copper alloy Roman legionary helmet, an iron sword with gilded bronze scabbard, a suit of parade armour made from crocodile skin and a bronze head depicting the first Roman emperor, Augustus.
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There are some incredible rare finds on show at this exhibition but it fails to depict a more diverse life in and around Rome’s armies.
The King David by Matthias Stomer (circa 1633-1639).
Musee des Beaux-Arts de Marseille
Given the dependence of Judaism, Christianity and even Islam on the Hebrew Bible, it is important to understand how the Bible depicts blood vengeance.
The Death of Julius Caesar, an 1806 painting by Vincenzo Camuccini.
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Historian and complexity scientist, Dan Hoyer, examines why past societies collapsed when faced with crisis, while others founds ways to survive and flourish.
A miniature of the Erythrean Sibyl, writing.
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While the wider literature tells us that medieval women were silent and passive, their letters and embroideries tell a different story.
Illustration of the devil pricking a woman with a pin and another of a girl vomiting pins from a history of witches.
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Pins were ubiquitous and swallowing them became associated with demonic posession and female “hysteria”.
Woman At Her Toilette by Berthe Morisot (c. 1875–1880).
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Jewellery and fashion accessories have been popular tokens of love for centuries.
Would flattery from an AI set your heart aflutter?
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Tech companies are offering AI companions as a convenient cure for the loneliness epidemic, but there have been other forms of faux relationships, and they tend to have more to do with ego than heart.
Bendigo’s ‘Moon Face’ dragon in front of Bendigo’s Gwan Dai Temple (now demolished) at Easter 1900.
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Some of Australia’s Federation-era dragons are among the oldest surviving imperial dragons in the world.
Detail from a 14th-century miniature Greek manuscript depicting scenes from the life of Alexander the Great.
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Digitising manuscripts may promise preservation and accessibility, but technology does not future-proof our access to the past.
Studying this discipline helps you understand how society works.
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The boards that oversee the education of students enrolled in Florida’s public colleges and universities are trying to restrict enrollment in sociology courses on those campuses.
Border conflicts, spanning different time periods and places, are behind many of the big international disputes today.
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Religious, racial and class-based differences often get politicized.