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The St Brice’s Day Massacre of 1002: Æthelred, the Danes, and England’s Winter of Blood
On 13 November 1002, King Æthelred II ordered the slaughter of Danes in England. Mass graves in Oxford and Dorset reveal the horror of the St Brice’s Day Massacre, a desperate act that helped bring down Anglo-Saxon England.
Michael Dillon: The Doctor Who Became The First Trans Man In Surgery And The First Western Monk At Rizong
Before headlines found him, Michael Dillon quietly changed medicine and himself. Oxford scholar, ship’s doctor, Buddhist monk — and the first known trans man to undergo phalloplasty. A life shaped by intellect, ethics, and quiet courage.
Martin Gusinde and the Vanishing Worlds of Tierra del Fuego
In the early 1900s, Austrian priest Martin Gusinde journeyed to Tierra del Fuego to live among the Selk’nam, Yamana, and Kawésqar peoples. His 1,200 photographs and sound recordings remain one of the last great records of a vanishing world.
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