Weekly History Quiz No.286
1. Who painted River Landscape around 1590?
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Lessons from the UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, three decades after the genocide it failed to stop
Reading time: 6 minutes
Dispatched with a fatally timid mission, many ordinary U.N. soldiers in Rwanda took extraordinary actions, using diplomacy, cultural awareness and community engagement. Their actions saved close to 30,000 lives, according to Romeo Dallaire, who led the U.N.’s deployment in Rwanda. Learning from what actually worked on this famously failed mission can save lives in the future.
Napoleon’s bicentenary: why celebrating the French emperor has become so controversial
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Napoleon Bonaparte may have died 200 years ago, but the vast ramifications of his rule can still be felt – and not only in France. This year marks the last in a series of bicentenaries since 1969, the 200th anniversary of his birth, but the chance to give the most famous emperor in French history another send-off is proving distinctly tricky – and not only because of COVID-19 restrictions.
Weekly History Quiz No.285
1. Which Australian territory was claimed by the USA in 1876?
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From Captain Cook to the First Fleet: how Botany Bay was chosen over Africa as a new British penal colony
Reading time: 7 minutes
After Captain Cook’s Endeavour voyage in 1770, the east coast of Australia was drawn on European maps of the globe for the first time. Yet, in terms of European contact with the continent, there was an 18-year lull in between Cook’s 1770 landings and the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788.
Love Thy Neighbour: The Importance of Guest Rights in Medieval England
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In almost every country in the modern world, although some more than others, various institutions, laws and social norms protect travellers. Yet the institutions such as the courts and the government, or the enforcing bodies such as the police, have not always existed.
Military History
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How the Great War shaped the foundations of Australia’s future
Reading time: 9 minutes It is striking that 2015 is the 110th anniversary of the Gallipoli offensive, the 80th anniversary of end of the Second World War in the Pacific, and the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. This is a good time to reflect not only on the actions of those wars, but on their consequences and their enduring legacies.
Political and Economic History
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Why history instruction is critical for combating online misinformation
Reading time: 6 minutes Can you tell fact from fiction online? In a digital world, few questions are more important or more challenging. For years, some commentators have called for K-12 teachers to take on fake news, media literacy, or online misinformation by doubling down on critical thinking. This push for schools to do a better job preparing young people to differentiate between low- and high-quality information often focuses on social studies classes.
Social and Cultural History
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New evidence from West Papua offers fresh clues about how and when humans first moved into the Pacific
Reading time: 6 minutes Charting the archaeology of West Papua is vital because it helps us understand where the ancestors of the wider Pacific came from and how they adapted to living in this new and unfamiliar sea of islands.
History Quizzes
Weekly History Quiz No.284
1. What was the purpose of the 1948 Marshall Plan?
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Weekly History Quiz No.283
1. What did scientists Watson and Crick discover?
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Weekly History Quiz No.282
1. Who wrote Heart of Darkness in 1899?
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Weekly History Quiz No.281
1. Where is the massive Kerak Castle?
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Weekly History Quiz No.280
1. Who painted The Hunters in the Snow in 1565?
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Weekly History Quiz No.279
1. Where was Marco Polo born?
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Weekly History Quiz No.278
1. Which line divides North and South Korea?
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Weekly History Quiz No.277
1. Which line of English monarchs originated in Wales?
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Weekly History Quiz No.276
1. When did the Japanese Shogun impose a sakoku (seclusion) policy?
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Weekly History Quiz No.275
1. When did Nicolaus Copernicus publish ‘On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres’ which explained that the Earth orbits around the Sun?
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Weekly History Quiz No.274
1. When did the Exxon Valdez oil spill occur?
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Weekly History Quiz No.273
1. Who was the first person to fly solo around the world?
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Weekly History Quiz No.272
1. Who led the 1911-1914 Australasian Antarctic Expedition?
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Weekly History Quiz No.271
1. When was the first Sino-Indian War?
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Weekly History Quiz No.270
1. Which country fought alongside the French and British against the Egyptians during the Suez crisis?
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Weekly History Quiz No.269
1. What is the 1916 armed insurrection against British rule in Ireland known as?
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Weekly History Quiz No.268
1. Where did Joanna Plantagenet, sister of Richard I Lionheart, become Queen?
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Weekly History Quiz No.267
1. In the 1300s, which Empire produced approximately half the world’s gold?
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Weekly History Quiz No.266
1. Which Empire operated the Manila Galleon trade?
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Weekly History Quiz No.265
1. When did the Wars of the Roses end?
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Weekly History Quiz No.264
1. Who painted ‘The Basket of Apples’ in 1893?
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Weekly History Quiz No.263
1. Who led the victorious army at the Battle of Poltava?
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Weekly History Quiz No.262
1. Which conflict did the Battle of Culloden bring to a close?
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Weekly History Quiz No.261
1. Which Greek God did the Colossus of Rhodes represent?
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Weekly History Quiz No.260
1. In 1947, what was the first living thing sent into space?
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Weekly History Quiz No.259
1. When did the Berlin wall fall?
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Weekly History Quiz No.258
1. When did the Spanish Empire reach its greatest extent?
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Weekly History Quiz No.257
1. After Shackleton’s ship was crushed by ice in Antarctica in 1916, where did he sail an open boat to in order to organise rescue?
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Weekly History Quiz No.256
1. When did the first crusade begin?
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Weekly History Quiz No.255
1. Who painted Liberty Leading the People in 1830?
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History Guild would like to acknowledge the Boonwurrung people, the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we are based, and pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.