Bathing Through the Ages
Roman baths, hot springs and hammams: how people got clean before the shower.
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Roman baths, hot springs and hammams: how people got clean before the shower.
30 sentences
1Missing days, a February 30th, and why a week has seven days.
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1Workers paid in beer and the first recorded strike: everyday life along the Nile.
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1A Swedish warship sank on its first voyage, a mile from where it was launched.
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1Ships, black flags, pirate codes, and true stories from piracy's golden age.
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1A forger sold fake Vermeers to a Nazi leader, then had to prove he painted them.
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1The strangest corners of Hong Kong, and the stories behind what locals take for granted.
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1Knocker-ups, lamplighters and the other jobs nobody does any more.
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1What an ordinary Viking day really looked like, far from the raids.
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1Chang'an held a million people, Persian merchants and polo-playing princesses.
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1Ancient Egyptians embalmed cats, ibises and crocodiles, not just their kings and queens.
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1Shells, salt, stone wheels and tea: everything that once counted as money.
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1New York's old City Hall subway station closed long ago, yet its chandeliers still hang over the empty platform.
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1A Chinese monk walked to India and back over sixteen years to fetch Buddhist texts.
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1How far the longships really went, and what Vikings found at the end of the voyage.
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