Egyptian Influences on Ancient Religion | The Pagan World: Ancient Religions before Christianity
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Egyptian religion had a significant impact on the religions of the Mediterranean world, particularly Greek and Roman. Based on pyramid texts, coffin texts, and spells written on papyri, learn what these ancient peoples believed about the potential for a sou...
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The Knights Templar Are Formed! | The Knights Templar: A History Strange and True
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Meet Hugues de Pans and Godfrey de Saint-Omer, two knights who recognized the need for a protective order and decided to do something about it. In their early years, the order defied the traditional Three Estates Model, blending knightly and monastic duties...
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Why 1776 Matters | Years That Changed History
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Step into a world on the brink. As George Washington faces the collapse of his army in January 1776, discover a revolution far bigger than America. From the Boston Tea Party to global trade empires and Enlightenment ideas, witness how politics, economics, a...
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Let a Committee Be Appointed | The Declaration of Independence: America's Birth Certificate
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In June of 1776, colonists moved rapidly toward announcing their political separation from Britain. Follow their actions leading to the creation of a committee to draft a statement of intent, headed by Thomas Jefferson. With Jefferson designated the write t...
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The American Revolution—Politics and People | A History of the United States, 2nd Edition
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Parliament's responses to American protests increasingly alienated Americans. By the spring of 1776, the determination of the British and the agitation of pro-independence thinkers wore down resistance to independence in the colonies. In the second Continen...
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Standoff in Boston | The American Revolution
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As Benedict Arnold helps win a key victory at New York's Fort Ticonderoga, the Second Continental Congress authorizes a new army under George Washington, a soldier and gentleman farmer well aware of the implications of the conflict. ------------------------...
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George Hewes: Tea Party Captain | Ordinary Americans in the Revolution
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George Robert Twelves Hewes was a shoemaker who became embroiled in revolutionary events. Trace his early life and how he came to be present at the Boston Massacre. Then, witness Hewes’ key role in the Boston Tea Party and in a later uprising involving a cu...
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The Power of Mind over Body | Lecture One
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In The Power of Mind over Body, unpack the science behind the brain-body connection and explore the cutting-edge therapies that claim to reduce pain, slow disease, and eliminate fatigue, not via pharmaceutical or surgical intervention but simply by targetin...
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This is How You Stop a Vampire! | The History of Dracula
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What Are Birds Actually Saying? | A Nature Lover's Guide
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This is How the Pyramids Were Built | Secrets of Ancient Egypt
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There's No Such Thing as Cavemen? | Early Human History
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