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The Beatles with Ed Sullivan

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Miniature from a Persian manuscript depicting Genghis Khan's funeral

General ancient history

Q&AWhere was Genghis Khan buried?

Photo of Enoch Powell being escorted by police

20th Century

The Rivers of Blood speech: what was it and how did it divide Britain?

Relief showing lion hunt on horseback.

General ancient history

Ashurbanipal 'the Great', the Lion of Assyria

Georgian

The American Revolutionary War: birth of a superpower

A detail from the Bayeux Tapestry depicting the death of Harold Godwinson at the battle of Hastings, 1066. Victory at Hastings did not make Duke William of Normandy king of England – at least, not immediately. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

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An Aztec priest performing the sacrificial offering of a living human's heart to the war god Huitzilopochtli. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images)

General ancient history

Q&AHow many people did the Aztecs sacrifice?

A First World War silk screened poster c1918 showing a frightening German soldier holding a bloodied bayonet. Caption reads: "Beat back the Hun with Liberty Bonds". (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

First World War

Why did the Allies call Germans 'Huns' during World War I?

Barristers' wigs

Medieval

Q&AWhy are barristers ‘called to the bar’?

Comprising a large semi-circle of heavy woollen cloth, the Roman toga was a deeply impractical garment. (Photo By DEA/A.DE GREGORIO/De Agostini via Getty Images)

Roman

Q&ADid Ancient Roman togas have pockets?

The history of birthday presents dates back to the Roman period. (Photo by Lambert/Fototrove/Getty Images Plus)

Roman

Q&AWhen did people start giving birthday presents?

Bust of young Caligula. Did he really make his horse a lawmaker of Rome? (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Roman

Q&ADid Caligula really make his horse a senator?

In the ninth century Pope Nicholas I decreed that St Peter’s symbol, the cockerel, should be displayed on all churches and many incorporated the design into weather vanes. Pictured here is the St Thomas church spire, Melbury Abbas in Dorset, United Kingdom. (Photo by Tim Graham/Getty Images)

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Harold Godwinson’s two eldest sons fled to Ireland after the Battle of Hastings, where they lived as guests of the King of Leinster. (Photo by Duncan1890 via Getty Images)

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Portrait of black cat – unlucky for some? (Photo by Getty Images)

Medieval

Q&AWhy are black cats unlucky?

The burial mask of Tutankhamun. From the moment Howard Carter discovered Tutankhamun’s tomb in The Valley of Kings in 1922, rumours swirled that a curse would fall on those who disturbed the Boy King's eternal slumber. (Photo by Hannes Magerstaedt/Getty Images)

20th Century

Q&AHow many people are supposed to have died from the curse of Tutankhamun's tombs?

Crowds of women from ancient Greece gather round a man holding a vase

Ancient Greece

Q&AWhat was life like for Spartan women?

Pathologist Thomas Harvey holds the brain of Albert Einstein in a jar, Kansas, 1994. Harvey, the on-duty pathologist during the eminent physicist's autopsy, removed Einstein’s brain and kept most of it stored in two glass jars, refrigerated inside a beer cooler, for more than 20 years. (Photo by Michael Brennan/Getty Images)

20th Century

Q&AWhat happened to Einstein's brain?

Ancient Egypt

Q&AWhy were cats so important in Ancient Egypt?

A bust of Queen Nefertiti of Ancient Egypt. (Photo by Oliver Lang/AFP/Getty Images)

Ancient Egypt

Q&AWhere is Nefertiti’s mummy?

A c1880 advertisement poster for Coca-Cola. The name derived from its extracts of coca leaves and kola nuts – the former did contain small amounts of cocaine. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)

Victorian

Q&ADid the original Coca-Cola drink really contain cocaine?

King Arthur feasting at Camelot

Tudor

Q&AHow old is the ‘British Empire’?

Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Rivoli

Georgian

Napoleon Bonaparte's greatest triumphs and disasters

Seven princesses with the name ‘Cleopatra’ are credited as sitting on the throne of Egypt. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Ancient Egypt

Q&AHow many Cleopatras ruled Ancient Egypt?

A portrait of James Gordon Bennett, Jr (1841–1918), by Alexis Joseph Perignon, 1867. (Photo by The New York Historical Society/Getty Images)

General Modern

Q&AWhy do we say ‘Gordon Bennett’?

Roman ruins in Ancient Ostia with the tenements of Serapide

Roman

FeatureFive facts about Roman insulae

The siege of Orleans

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Theodora was an Eastern Roman empress by marriage to emperor Justinian.(Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Roman

Theodora: from prostitution to empress of the eastern Roman empire

Mince pies date back to the Crusaders during the Middle Ages. (Photo by Laura Kate Bradley via Getty Images)

Medieval

Q&AWhen were mince pies first made?

Photo of gauntlets

Medieval

Q&AWhy do we say throw down the gauntlet?

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