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@iknowhow Aug 20, 2017, 7:21 AM UTC

History & Life: How Clothes Were Cleaned In The Days Before Washing Machines

# Coping with washday blues Washday has always been at best a trial, and at worst a curse, as the great Restoration diarist Samuel Pepys makes clear in his terse entry for April 4, 1666: 'Home, and b…

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@iknowhow Aug 6, 2017, 11:11 AM UTC

History & Writing: How Ancient Civilizations Developed Their Own Writing Form.

Clay was molded into the records of the ancient world, as well as its bricks, tiles and pots. From before 3000 BC, the Sumerians of ancient Mesopotamia kept records by drawing pictures on soft clay t…

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@iknowhow Aug 6, 2017, 8:09 AM UTC

History & War: How Prisoners of War of the Second World War Tunneled Their Way to Freedom.

# The Great Escape At the tunnel face, a young RAF officer drenched in perspiration lay on his side, chipping at the sandy earth inches from his nose, while a second officer heaped the excavated eart…

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@iknowhow Jul 31, 2017, 3:50 AM UTC

History & Law: How The Roman Empire Was Governed

The Emperor Trajan was annoyed with Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, governor of the Roman province of Bithynia in Northern Turkey. Why did he trouble him with petty problems? Trajan had enough on h…

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@iknowhow Jul 25, 2017, 11:39 AM UTC

History & Medicine: How Disease Was Diagnosed And Treated In Ancient Egypt.

## A Book of Wounds The ancient Egyptian medical manual, written around 1600 BC, describes treatment for fractures, dislocations, wounds, tumours and other surgical disorders. The Greek historian Her…

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@iknowhow Jul 24, 2017, 3:29 AM UTC

History & Life: A Wedding On Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece and Lithuanian Jews.

## A marriage on trial (Egypt) The wedding procession of the 12-year old tamit moves joyfully through the streets of Thebes. Resplendent in a sparkling white dress and matching shawl. Tamit shyly ack…

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@iknowhow Jul 23, 2017, 6:21 AM UTC

History & Sports: How The Greeks Organized The Olympic Games.

## To honor Zeus The athletes marched slowly down the great way to the grove of Altis at Olympia, the most sacred site of Zeus, the ruler or gods. In to days the Olympic Games would start. So importa…

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@iknowhow Jul 20, 2017, 2:02 AM UTC

History & Food: How Prehistoric Man Hunted And Fished.

## Lying in wait for food The group of silent hunters squatted patiently in the bushes and tall grasses near a herd of grazing bison. At a signal, the men jumped to their feet, hurling stones, waving…

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@iknowhow Jul 19, 2017, 2:47 AM UTC

History & Engineering: How Athenians Built Their Parthenon In Just 15 Years.

## Shrine to a goddess of wisdom The Goddess' ivory skin glowed softly in the half-light of the temple's inner room. Her magnificent frame stood 33 ft tall, the masterpiece of the Greek sculptor Phei…

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@iknowhow Jul 12, 2017, 6:56 AM UTC

History & Engineering: How Stonehenge Was Built.

The huge stone on the ground was 20 ft long and weighed 50 tons. At its foot lay a pit 8 ft deep, three sides help up by wooden stakes and the fourth- nearest to the base of the stone- shaped as a ra…

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