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The history of the ancient Olympics: honour, glory, wealth vs politics, bribes and fraud

The ancient Olympic Games were one of the competitions between representatives of city-states. From the beginning, they were a political tool to assert dominance over others. The results were often manipulated. At various times, some city states refused to participate and exerted political pressure to promote their own interests, while others were excluded from the Games. The history of the Olympics is full of controversy and myth, in many ways no different from that of modern...

How it really was - or: 10 interesting myths and truths about the Middle Ages

We know it from books, fairy tales, and even feature films - the Middle Ages seem to us to be a period ruled by brute force, with filth everywhere and people uneducated. That the Middle Ages was a dark time for modern science, serfs had virtually no rights and women were slaves to their men... But - is reality really like that? Can we base these assumptions on historically based facts and information?

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