Hello and Welcome, Fellow History Lovers. This Seams Interesting is a column highlighting weird, overlooked, and ignored people and events throughout history. When it comes to Greek history most people know about Aristotle, Homer, Alexander the Great (I know he was Macedonian but that’s a story for another day), and the Olympics. Arguably the
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Hello and Welcome, This Seams Interesting is a monthly column highlighting weird, overlooked, and ignored people and events throughout history. February’s Topic is… AMINA OF ZARIA: African Warrior Queen Extraordinaire Africa has a deep and rich history going from the Pharaohs of Egypt to the golden coast of the Asasnte to the Dahomey
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Hello and welcome, this is This Seams Interesting. It’s a monthly column looking at weird, interesting, and overlooked people and events throughout history. January’s topic is… OLYMPICS SPECIAL VOL. 1 BETTY ROBINSON AND WYOMIA TYUS: The 100M Special Ah! The Olympics, the apex of athletics, the gold standard of the gold standard of
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Hello and welcome, this is This Seams Interesting. It’s a monthly column looking at weird, interesting, and overlooked people and events throughout history. December’s topic is… TSAREVNA SOPHIA ALEKSEYEVNA ROMANOVA: Peter the Great’s Lesser Known but Much More Interesting Sister When most people think of the Russian Tsars the names that pop up
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Hello and welcome, this is This Seams Interesting. It’s a monthly column looking at weird, interesting, and overlooked people and events throughout history. November’s topic is… QUEEN ANNA NZINGA: The Humiliator of the Portuguese This has taken far, far, far too long but I am finally tackling African history. I’m sorry and formally
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