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A freelance reporter in London tries to sell his boyhood stamp collection and takes a journey through memory and vanished nations.

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Jeffrey Sachs comments on how closely 21st-century U.S. policy towards the Russian Federation mirrors how the 19th-century British Empire approached the Russian Empire. "We make up stories about ...

Hannay and Arbuthnot went undercover into the Ottoman Empire to thwart German plans (the Ottomans were allied to the Central Powers) to foment rebellion in Muslim lands against their British ...

The British Empire and the Rise of Industry Britain's Empire in 1815 This is the year that marked the end of a prolonged global conflict and saw Britain join the ranks of the great imperial powers.