Weekly History Quiz No.283
1. What did scientists Watson and Crick discover?
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Why history instruction is critical for combating online misinformation
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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.
New evidence from West Papua offers fresh clues about how and when humans first moved into the Pacific
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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.
Weekly History Quiz No.282
1. Who wrote Heart of Darkness in 1899?
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World War I in Broken Hill: a Turkish-Inspired Attack on Australia’s Home Soil
Reading time: 14 minutes From August 1914 to November 1918, over 416,000 men served in Australian...
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Confessions from the Cambridge Five: a file release from MI5
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Over 100 Security Service (MI5) files are being released today covering a wide range of subjects and individuals. Most notably, the files offer fresh perspectives on notorious members of the Cambridge Five spy ring, namely Anthony Blunt, Kim Philby and John Cairncross.
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Political and Economic History
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A Belgian farmer moved a rock and accidentally annexed France: the weird and wonderful history of man-made borders
Reading time: 5 minutes Nations establish their borders through treaties. Rivers are sometimes relied on to set boundaries, but even here tensions rise when there are disputes about interpretation. Is the boundary on the river banks, the deepest part of the river, or the very centre of the flow?
Social and Cultural History
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Changing the Eurocentric narrative about the history of science – why multiculturalism matters
Reading time: 6 minutes There is nothing more intimately personal than the thoughts in your head, and yet you did not conceive them. They are a continuation of knowledge and ideas that for thousands of years have travelled the globe, shaped by countless minds from all civilizations. In a time of seemingly growing division, that is a thought that ought to bring us all together.
History Quizzes
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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Weekly History Quiz No.254
1. How does history view the English King who agreed to Magna Carta?
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Weekly History Quiz No.253
1. Which previous empire did the Byzantine Empire grow out of?
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Weekly History Quiz No.252
1. Who painted The Creation of Adam in 1512?
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