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Oft-called the “the Graveyard of Empires,” the wild region now known as Afghanistan has foiled would-be conquerors for millennia. In 1809 a diplomat named Mountstuart Elphinstone led Britain’s first fact-finding mission to Afghanistan. In a land filled with strife and riven by independent factions, he met an elderly tribal leader and tried to convince him …
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Controlling Changsha, Controlling ChinaNow all but forgotten, Changsha was one of the most bitterly contested cities of the Pacific War. The city of Changsha is today, as it was in the 1930s, a bustling urban space amid… Read MoreDaily Quiz for April 6, 2017This was the first openly professional baseball team
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… Read MoreMuseum Watch: Glamorizing WarWar is “the only hygiene of the world,” F. T. Marinetti wrote in his 1909 Futurist Manifesto. The Italian Futurists gloried in war and couldn’t wait for it to begin. In the years j… Read MoreWho Lost World War II?Was it Hitler? Or the overrated German General Staff? After the Second World War ended German dreams of world conquest, many of the Third Reich’s generals wrote self-serving, excul… Read MoreThe Best of Princes, the Best of ArmiesA survivor of Rome’s glory days, Trajan’s Column celebrates an emperor’s ego and his army’s engineering know-how. In AD 113 the Roman senate dedicated a monument commemorating the … Read More
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