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Eleonor "Gay" Courter and her husband have been accused of helping to sell the bullion for a French diver who stole it decades ago, but have denied knowledge of any wrongdoing.
French authorities are pushing for a trial, while the couple maintains they were unaware of the gold's controversial ...
Le Prince de Conty, a French ship trading with Asia, sank off the coast of Brittany in 1746. The shipwreck was first ...
Generations of Germans believe Frederick the Great brought the beloved potato to Germany. The legend is this: King Frederick ...
Depictions of artisans, labourers and tradespeople captured Indian society and discrimination, and the driving ideology has ...
A 1699 letter from an enslaved boy portrayed in a 17th-century painting sheds light on Black identity and agency in early ...
"The eagerness with which he attacks his beef when his stomach is not gorged, resembles the voracity of a hungry wolf, ...