Buzz Aldrin Poses next To The U.S. flag On Moon

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Richard Buckminster standing next to his draft of a house of the 21st century. (Ullstein picture via Getty Images)

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Abraham Lincoln: 5 facts

An American privateer is shown repelling a British attack during the War of 1812. Despite some notable successes, the British regarded the entire conflict as a sideshow and quickly forgot it. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images)

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Mary Beard, professor of classics at the University of Cambridge. (David Levenson/Getty Images)

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American golfer Bobby Jones practising his swing on the roof of the Savoy Hotel in London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

20th Century

My history hero: Robert Tyre Jones (1902–71)

Medieval

1492: The Year Our World Began

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A European buyer of enslaved people

General History

Who started the enslavement of Africans in the Americas?

Illustration by Jonty Clark

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The surprisingly long history of humanity's political development

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Two women from South America. Six centuries ago South American civilisations matched the west in some respects. (Getty Images)

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The wonder of the west

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The American ‘Occupation’ of Britain: Three films

American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910) who wrote under the pseudonym of Mark Twain, standing outside on a porch. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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Q&AWhat is the origin of the phrase ‘going postal’, meaning ‘going berserk’?

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New US citizens celebrate after taking the oath at a US District Court for the Central District of California naturalisation ceremony, 2007. (Photo by Anne Cusack/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

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Antique print of the Boston Massacre from the American Revolutionary, by Paul Revere (American, 1734-1818) (hand-colored engraving), 1770. The title of the print is 'The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Reg't'. (Photo by GraphicaArtis/Getty Images)

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