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What’s the Difference Between Great Britain and the United Kingdom?

Anatolian Alevi Muslims perform Semah at a Djemevi (cem house or cemevi) to celebrate Newroz -the arrival of spring - the "Rite of Unity". They pray together in this special mass officiated by religious Alevi leader "Dede", performed dhikr and performed Semah - a religious dance, in Ismir, Turkey, March 26, 2022

Who Are the Alevis in Turkey?

Queen Elizabeth II on her Coronation Day (June 2, 1953) holding the Sovereign's Sceptre with Cross in her right hand the Orb in her left, in an embroidered and beaded dress by Norman Hartnell, a crimson velvet mantle edged with ermine fur, with the Coronation ring, the Coronation necklace, and the Imperial State Crown. The backdrop depicts the interior of Westminster Abbey; photograph by Cecil Beaton. (British royals)

5 Fascinating British Coronation Objects

King Charles III and Queen Camilla (Camilla, Queen Consort) wave from the balcony of Buckingham Palace during the Coronation of King Charles in London, England on May 6, 2023

British Royal Line of Succession

A Timeline of the World in 8 Maps

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Ethel Rosenberg arrested in August 1950. Photograph dated Aug. 8, 1950. American civilians executed for espionage. Spies, communists, Julius Rosenberg

Spies Like Us: 10 Famous Names in the Espionage Game

Aurochs. Bos primigenius. Skeleton. Extinct animal. Skeleton of an Aurochs, an extinct wild ox.

6 Animals We Ate Into Extinction

Water Fluoridation: Just the Facts

Figure 13: A Maxim machine gun, belt-fed and water-cooled, operated by German infantrymen, World War I.

7 Deadliest Weapons in History

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Who Invented the Internet?

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7 of History's Most Notorious Serial Killers

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Poker Hands Ranked

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Born	c.1550 • England
Died	July 1610 • Sandwich • England
Notable Works	“Generall Historie of the Turkes, from the first beginning of that Nation”
Subjects Of Study	Turkey

Mehmed Fuat Köprülü

Turkish statesman

Edward Gibbon

British historian

Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

English politician and author

Edward Hyde, 1st earl of Clarendon

English statesman

1st Baron Acton of Aldenham, oil painting by Franz von Lenbach; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, 1st Baron Acton

English historian and moralist

Arnold J. Toynbee

British historian

James Anthony Froude

British historian

Hilaire Belloc

British author

Richard Henry Tawney

British economist

John Rushworth

English historian

Thomas Fuller

English scholar, preacher, and author

R.G. Collingwood

British historian and philosopher

William Camden

British historian

Samuel Rawson Gardiner

British historian

J.F.C. Fuller

British army officer

Sir Basil Liddell Hart

British military historian

Matthew Paris

English artist and historian

Orderic Vitalis

Norman history

A.N. Wilson

English writer

A. F. Pollard

English historian and author

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