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Around 1600, speeches in English plays suddenly got shorter – and no one knows why

A speech in a play by Shakespeare or one of his contemporaries can be as short as a word or as long as several hundred, or anything in between. But what is the most common length?

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Fewer People Are Going to College. Here's Why That's a Good Thing.

The time and money spent on college can often be used more productively.

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Spying, sabotage, subversion, people-smuggling: the brave women who resisted the Nazis through non-violence

Many people think Nazi Germany was beaten only through military violence, and mainly by men. As Barack Obama said in 2009: “Nonviolence could not have halted Hitler’s armies”. In fact, non-violent action was widely used in resisting Nazism. Brave women often led it. They later got little recognition, though this…

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Genocide resisters, long overlooked by history, step into the spotlight

The anniversary of the Armenian Genocide is marked every year on April 24. That was the date in 1915 when hundreds of Armenian community leaders were arrested by the government of the Ottoman Empire in the capital Constantinople, now known as Istanbul.

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Diseases gave us the rise of Christianity, the end of the Aztecs and public sanitation. How might future plagues change human history?

“Every once in a while a book lands on your desk that changes the way you perceive the world you live in, a book that fundamentally challenges your understanding of human history.” So began the blurb that came with this book. Aha! I thought. The usual advertising hyperbole, a gross…

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The hidden danger of asbestos in UK schools: 'I don't think they realise how much risk it poses to students'

Being diagnosed came as a complete shock. You do not imagine that you are going to go into a school to teach children and come out with an industrial disease.

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A newly uncovered ancient Roman winery featured marble tiling, fountains of grape juice and an extreme sense of luxury

Recent excavations at the Villa of the Quintilii uncovered the remains of a unique winery just outside Rome.

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Caveat emptor: a new book on the best lines in Latin misses the bigger picture

One of my favourite Roman artefacts to show visiting school groups or beginner’s Latin classes is a floor mosaic from the House of the Tragic Poet in Pompeii. The mosaic depicts a chained dog accompanied by the Latin words, CAVE CANEM (“beware of the dog”).

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Friday essay: in an age of catastrophe is there still a place for utopian dreams? Or might our shared vulnerability be the key?

As utopian oases dry up, a desert of banality, and bewilderment spreads …

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Defying the Holocaust didn't just mean uprising and revolt: Remembering Jews' everyday resistance

Richard Glazar insisted that no one survived the Holocaust without help. To this Prague-born Jewish survivor, who endured Nazi imprisonment at Treblinka and Theresienstadt, plus years in hiding, it was impossible to persevere without others’ support. Glazar conceded that some of his fellow Treblinka survivors were “loners,” but he nevertheless…

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The crucifixion gap: why it took hundreds of years for art to depict Jesus dying on the cross

The cross, or crucifix, is arguably the central image of Christianity.

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International Criminal Court has cited Russia's deportation of Ukrainian children a war crime: on Russia's long history of weaponising deportation

On March 17, the International Criminal Court cited Russia’s deportation of Ukrainian children as a war crime for which President Vladimir Putin is being held responsible.

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Revealed: How archaeologists are shedding new light on how Hitler was defeated

Operation Cobra was arguably the most successful allied western European military land operation of the Second World War

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This Buddhist sculpture probably won’t ‘rewrite history’ – Western Australia already has a rich Chinese past

Does the discovery of a Ming Dynasty Buddha sculpture found near Shark Bay in remote Western Australia “rewrite history” and suggest the Chinese first visited Australia 600 years ago?

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How do superconductors work? A physicist explains what it means to have resistance-free electricity

The modern world runs on electricity, and wires are what carry that electricity to every light, television, heating system, cellphone and computer on the planet. Unfortunately, on average, about 5% of the power generated at a coal or solar power plant is lost as the electricity is transmitted from the…

Daily Mirror

Inside Abu Ghraib prison where US tortured Iraqi detainees in horrendous war crimes

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: On March 20, 2004, the US and UK Coalition invaded Iraq on the false belief that dictator Saddam Hussein was manufacturing weapons of mass destruction and planned to use them on his own people

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St Gertrude's Day prompts brief look at cats in art history

Felines have been featured in fine, and not-so-fine, art since long before their memes and videos dominated the internet.

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What exactly is the internet? A computer scientist explains what it is and how it came to be

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com.

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Music, silence, love and power: the engrossing story of a child prodigy in the court of Louis XIV

Brilliant. Inventive. Devilish.

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Pink Floyd's enigmatic, record-breaking album The Dark Side Of The Moon turns 50

The iconic cover art, the boundary-pushing sonics, that thing where it supposedly synchronises with The Wizard Of Oz — Pink Floyd's legendary album is one of the most successful releases of all time.

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Hilma af Klint, a painter at the forefront of abstraction

Can an exhibition of work by a little-known Swedish artist change our understanding of avant-garde art? The history of early 20th-century art seems to be sufficiently set that the spectral appearance of an artist on the periphery of Europe wouldn’t change it in any way. However, the phenomenon of Hilma…

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Join the Counterforce: Thomas Pynchon's postmodern epic Gravity's Rainbow at 50

Books age at variable rates. Some, indexed to topicalities with mayfly longevities, are decrepit before they’re published. Others, lively and seductive on first appearance, are dry husks a decade later. More durable works may still feel noble a century hence, if suspended in aspic.

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Why are so many Gen Z-ers drawn to old digital cameras?

The latest digital cameras boast ever-higher resolutions, better performance in low light, smart focusing and shake reduction – and they’re built right into your smartphone.

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Friday essay: 'killed by Natives'. The stories – and violent reprisals – behind some of Australia's settler memorials

First Nations people please be advised this article contains distressing imagery of a retaliatory shooting.

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Enrico Caruso: the first big opera star of the 20th century

25 February 2023 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Enrico Caruso, one of the most admired tenors in history and one of the first to have his voice preserved for posterity through phonographic recordings.

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