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This week in history: Caligula
This week in 41 CE, a faction Roman leaders assassinated their emperor, Caligula. The emperor had...
Who Thought Up Dog Domestication, People or Dogs?
Scientists used to think Stone Age people domesticated the dog by adopting wolf pups and breeding...
This week in history: Ceres
Ceres This week in 1801, astronomer-priest Giuseppe Piazzi discovered a new astronomical body...
This week in history: Hagia Sophia
The Hagia Sophia This week in 537, eastern Roman emperor Justinian I finished construction of the...
This week in history: The Boston Tea Party
"Americans throwing the cargoes of the Tea Ships into the River at Boston" from The History of...
This week in history: Encyclopaedia Britannica
This week in 1768, Colin Macfarquhar and Andrew Bell of Scotland published the first edition...
This week in history: Napoleon III
This week in 1852, Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte became Emperor of France. His father was the...

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