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A new textbook soon to be taught in Russian schools leans on the works of a 16th-century monk. It fits a pattern of ...

One such ancient story centers on the bronze sentry Talos. Forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths and artisans, Talos ...

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A few survived even the ignorance and superstition of the worst period of the Dark Ages; but for centuries conditions did not favour their growth. Just when the pagan philosophers seemed to be losing ...