People

Zilpah was a woman in Genesis who bears children to Jacob on behalf of Leah. She becomes the mother of Gad and Asher and is included […]

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1840–1902

Émile Zola was a French novelist and leading figure of literary naturalism. His Rougon-Macquart sequence examines family, class, labour, politics and urban life under the Second […]

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1315–1358

Étienne Marcel was provost of the merchants of Paris during the crisis years of the Hundred Years’ War. He became a leading figure in urban resistance […]

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3276 BCE–3231 BCE

Ötzi is the naturally preserved body of a man who died in the eastern Alps around 3300 BCE. Discovered in 1991 with clothing, weapons and tools, […]

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1898–1983

Ada Blackjack was an Iñupiat seamstress who joined the 1921 Canadian Arctic Expedition to Wrangel Island. After the other members died or disappeared, she survived alone […]

1902–1981

Aleksandr Georgievich Kotikov was a Soviet major-general and political officer who served on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. From 1946 to 1950 he […]

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330–395

Ammianus Marcellinus was a fourth-century Roman soldier and historian. His surviving history describes the later Roman Empire from the reign of Constantius II to the death […]

Antiochus III the Great was a Seleucid king who attempted to restore the wide territorial power of his dynasty. He campaigned from the eastern satrapies to […]

c. 2nd century–c. 2nd century

Antonius Diogenes was an ancient Greek writer, probably active in the Roman imperial period, about whose life almost nothing certain is known. He composed The Wonders […]

Appian was a Greek-speaking historian of the Roman imperial period. His Roman History organises Rome’s expansion by peoples and regions, while the surviving Civil Wars provide […]