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Showing posts with label Romans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Romans. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Pig-chickens, beavers’ tails and turtle soup: 8 weird foods through history

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History Extra A Plantagenet king of England dining. (Credit: Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images) From the ...

History Trivia - Battle of Pydna

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June 22   168 BC Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeated and captured Macedonian King Perseus ending the Third M...
Thursday, May 19, 2016

9 of history's best quotes

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History Extra Queen Victoria, who reportedly said "We are not amused". (Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Neil Armst...
Thursday, March 17, 2016

7 surprising facts about the history of medicine

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History Extra Ancient Egyptian childbirth scene: the mother is helped by her handmaidens and the midwife. Reconstruction of a Theban ...
Sunday, February 7, 2016

7 surprising Ancient Rome facts

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History Extra The Intervention of the Sabine Women, painting by the French painter Jacques-Louis David, 1799. Musee Du Louvre, Paris,...
Monday, September 28, 2015

10 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Romans

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History Extra 19th-century coloured engraving of gladiators in ancient Rome. © Lanmas / Alamy 1) Gladiatorial fighting was not the m...
Friday, March 20, 2015

How did the Romans celebrate ‘Christmas’?

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History Extra   It is today associated with decorations, gift giving and indulgence. But how did the Romans celebrate during the festi...