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This was not mere rhetoric: their clash over tolls was with the town’s priory, and they were excommunicated for their refusal ...

In the 1970s and 1980s Wimpy faced off with McDonald’s in a battle over what it meant to eat British.

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The National Archives at Kew. National Museum of African American History, part of the Smithsonian in Washington, DC. John ...

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Chinese astronomers and the European Jesuits who worked alongside them found evidence of China’s antiquity in the heavens.

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