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Monday, 08 April 2013 12:48 Written by John Rees D avid Cameron became the first Tory prime minister for 13 years after the general election of 2010. Many of those who voted in that election had no real memory of living under a Conservative administration. For many Margaret Thatcher's first election victory in 1979 is the stuff of history books. http://www.counterfire.org/index.php/articles/212-books/16391-thatcherism-a-timeline

Thatcherism: A Timeline

The Big Question

Graham Roumieu Q: What was the worst marriage ever? Raoul Felder, divorce lawyer If you’re a New Yorker, you might have heard of “the Bride of Wildenstein.” http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/04/the-big-question/309262/
Pearls of Wisdom

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NOVA | History of the Samurai

A Marvel of Inca Engineering Perched high in the Andes, Machu Picchu required ingenious construction, as engineer Ken Wright explains. Excavating the Lost City Egyptologist Mark Lehner describes the lives of the pyramid-builders, as revealed in his ongoing excavation at Giza. Rise of the Inca How did the Inca Empire become as vast as the Roman in just over a century? The Dream Stela of Thutmosis IV Egyptologist Kasia Szpakowska decodes a mysterious stone monument erected between the Sphinx's front paws. Saving the Sphinx Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, has taken extraordinary steps to preserve the monument.