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The cover of A Concise History of the World by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Book

A Concise History of the World

A family tree showing how closely related George V, Wilhelm II and Nicholas II were.
Blog Post

World War One — a family affair.

A screen grab from the Refugee Project interactive map of refugee migration from 1975 to 2015
Website

The Refugee Project

The ruins of an Ancient Greek building, perhaps a gymnasium
Article

The Gymnasium

The cover of Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
Book

Guns, Germs and Steel

A screenshot from Steve Johnson's TED talk on how play can lead to great innovation and invention.
Video

The Playful Wonderland Behind Great Inventions

The cover of The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan
Book

The Silk Roads

The cover of The Way of Zen by Alan Watts, an introduction to Zen Buddhism
Book

The Way of Zen

The cover of The War that Ended Peace by Margaret MacMillan
Book

The War that Ended Peace

Rajesh Rao presenting his TED talk on a Rosetta Stone for a lost language — deciphering the ancient Indus script
Video

A Rosetta Stone for a Lost Language

A map showing the last time that each European country was occupied
Infographic

The last time each European country was occupied

A still from the film Waltz with Bashir
Film

Waltz with Bashir

Yuval Noah Harari presenting his TED talk explaining the rise of humans
Video

What explains the rise of humans?

The cover of the DVD of Dinosaur 13, a documentary on the discovery of the largest T. Rex fossil ever found
Film

Dinosaur 13

A screen capture from Adam Curtis' documentary HyperNormalisation
Film

HyperNormalisation

The cover of Paris 1919 by Margaret MacMillan
Book

Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

The front gate to Fort Sperone... shut, unfortunately
Travel Blog

Exploring Genoa — Parco delle Mura (Park of the City Walls) (#1)

Murray Gell-Mann presenting his TED talk on the ancestor of language
Video

The Ancestor of Language

The cover of the book Southeast Asia: An introductory history by Milton Osborne
Book

Southeast Asia: An Introductory History

The cover of the book Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Book

Sapiens

The cover of the book Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
Book

Homo Deus

An image of space for The Big History Project, a free online course on the history of the Universe
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The Big History Project

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