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How tourism shapes a place's history | Alyssa Talley | TEDxVictoria
TEDx Talks· 2025-11-27 18:00
Have you ever planned a vacation using an online travel platform. Maybe you wanted to check out what the popular attractions were or book a tour wherever you were going. They can be great tools to help you explore a new city or give you some insight before visiting an unfamiliar country.Historic places are often at the top of these sites. You might see things like castles, old temples, or heritage houses, and these places have always been a favorite of mine when I'm traveling. I was at this old villa in Eur ...
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BBC News (World)· 2025-11-26 17:30
Jug older than Christianity to return to Cyprus https://t.co/BIiqyGRgcd ...
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The Economist· 2025-11-23 08:40
In Prabowo Subianto’s reading of 20th-century Indonesia all struggles, whether for good or for ill, are honoured alike. A flattened version of history plays to the president’s advantage https://t.co/wuwkkzhkbS ...
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The Economist· 2025-11-21 17:35
“The dust of the bones and of everything that had been built before.”“The Intelligence” remembers Gillian Tindall, a historian who chronicled ordinary lives and ordinary places https://t.co/ET8BR51ZV4 https://t.co/bjNPziQ87t ...
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Bloomberg· 2025-11-16 13:05
Michelle Obama's book is an invitation to remember a history and a politics that Trump is trying to erase, writes @niamalikah (via @opinion) https://t.co/3fXfcxxlxB ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-13 21:50
Geographic Comparison - Ireland's statehood is younger than the USA's, despite a population history spanning thousands of years [1] - Ireland has had only 20% the number of presidents the USA has had [1] - Ireland has existed for only 41% of the time the USA has existed [1]
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The Economist· 2025-11-13 03:00
Historians have long debated the exact founding date of New York. But the year itself is less important than using the occasion to reflect on its fascinating history https://t.co/K50hUSGukH ...
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BBC News (World)· 2025-11-11 06:06
Tutankhamun: How Englishmen uncovered the boy-king https://t.co/zIzNmhTzYU ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-11 00:26
Historical Perspective - The tweet suggests that all of history is a footnote to the Roman Empire, similar to how all of philosophy is a footnote to Plato [1]
History Meets Mythology: The Indian Way of Understanding the Past | Tarun Bhargava | TEDxNITTrichy
TEDx Talks· 2025-11-03 16:28
history. When we hear that word, what is it that comes to our mind. Perhaps some dates, records, perhaps the names of some rulers and generals arranged neatly in an order.But did it mean the same for our ancestors. What was history for them. When they didn't have records, perhaps they imagined and when they mixed memory with myth, they created story that made sense about their past.And this talk is going to about those stories. Somewhere in the 14th century, one bright morning, Sultan Firosha Touglak stands ...