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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.
Reading time: 14 minutes Bob Denard had not quite reached his 32nd birthday when a newspaper...
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1. What did scientists Watson and Crick discover?
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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.
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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.
1. Who wrote Heart of Darkness in 1899?
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Reading time: 14 minutes From August 1914 to November 1918, over 416,000 men served in Australian...
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?
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.
1. Where is the massive Kerak Castle?
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1. Who painted The Hunters in the Snow in 1565?
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1. Where was Marco Polo born?
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1. Which line divides North and South Korea?
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1. Which line of English monarchs originated in Wales?
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1. When did the Japanese Shogun impose a sakoku (seclusion) policy?
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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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1. When did the Exxon Valdez oil spill occur?
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1. Who was the first person to fly solo around the world?
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1. Who led the 1911-1914 Australasian Antarctic Expedition?
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1. When was the first Sino-Indian War?
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1. Which country fought alongside the French and British against the Egyptians during the Suez crisis?
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1. What is the 1916 armed insurrection against British rule in Ireland known as?
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1. Where did Joanna Plantagenet, sister of Richard I Lionheart, become Queen?
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1. In the 1300s, which Empire produced approximately half the world’s gold?
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1. Which Empire operated the Manila Galleon trade?
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1. When did the Wars of the Roses end?
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1. Who painted ‘The Basket of Apples’ in 1893?
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1. Who led the victorious army at the Battle of Poltava?
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1. Which conflict did the Battle of Culloden bring to a close?
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1. Which Greek God did the Colossus of Rhodes represent?
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1. In 1947, what was the first living thing sent into space?
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1. When did the Berlin wall fall?
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1. When did the Spanish Empire reach its greatest extent?
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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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1. When did the first crusade begin?
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1. Who painted Liberty Leading the People in 1830?
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1. How does history view the English King who agreed to Magna Carta?
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1. Which previous empire did the Byzantine Empire grow out of?
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1. Who painted The Creation of Adam in 1512?
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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.