Historian sees lesson for today in 1400s
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"God's Crucible Â Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215" (W. W. Norton, 475 pages, $29.95), by David Levering Lewis: Though it all happened 1,300 years ago well Â some of it less than 600 years ago Â Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Levering Lewis says a long military-religious campaign bore seeds of troubled 21st century history.
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Crusades of the 13-14th centuries changed the course of history and development of Baltic nations.
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BRUSSELS, Feb 6 (IPS) - 'The Cold War as ancient history', ran a  headline in the International Herald Tribune Feb. 4, above an  article on how teenagers in the former East Berlin know little  about communism.
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History smells if it doesn't exactly stink. In recent days, as the family is away in Pakistan, I have been amassing old books.
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By Bob Mims, The Salt Lake Tribune  Sep. 10--If what Iomega Corp. endured over the past decade is  "restructuring," then two-thirds of 14th century Europe's population was  merely downsized by the Black Plague.
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Pieces of Britain's past, including a second-century silver ring and a 500-year-old Tudor trade weight, are among artefacts being peddled daily on the Internet to the alarm of experts at the British Museum.
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When public health officials and vaccine manufacturers convene in Geneva Thursday, they&#39;ll keep an eye on the past as they try to anticipate the future.
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The first analysis of a rare Roman skin cream shows that it is similar to modern equivalents and suggests that women went to the same lengths to look beautiful two thousand years ago as they do today.
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And recent history repeats itself.
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Not 15 months ago, they were staring each other down at a negotiating table, bargaining tensely over who should have title to 13 archaeological artifacts. But on a recent afternoon they seemed the best of colleagues.
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The race is forcing a generation of Americans to examine the decisions they made back then.
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350 years of science available for your reading pleasure One of the world's most important historical records will be made available online for the first time today. All the Royal Society's journals are free for two months and include stone-cold scientific classics going back to 1665 and the foundations of modern inquiry.â¦
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It has long been a matter of contention: Was the Aztec and Mayan practice of human sacrifice as widespread and horrifying as the history books say? Or did the Spanish conquerors overstate it to make the Indians look primitive? In recent years archaeologists have been uncovering mounting physical evidence that corroborates the Spanish accounts in substance, if not number.
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BOSTON -- Recent history suggests that ancient history may be, well, a thing of the past. The Boston Red Sox, winless in the World Series since 1918 and just a week ago three outs from elimination this 2004
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Comment is free: Madeleine Bunting: The cultural fascination with the middle ages rarely acknowledges that power is still won and abused in the same way
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A 300-year old system has been criticized for decades as outmoded, unsupervised and unfair.
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Erudite miscreants can teach us the tricks of their trade, and how not to be tricked again.