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In the last 30 days, Empire produced 55 attributed ideas.

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Osama bin Laden's 1990 Saudi rejectionFIRST HEARD 30 AUG
Osama bin Laden as the family's 'Puritan' outlierFIRST HEARD 30 AUG
Osama bin Laden's 1990s funding networkFIRST HEARD 26 AUG
Bronze Age collapse as unified historical frameworkFIRST HEARD 19 FEB
Iranian protests coalesce around exiled crown princeFIRST HEARD 3 FEB
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14 OCT5D AGO404. Norman Conquest: Colonising Ireland (Part 4)
Norman integration as a conquest strategy
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14 OCT5D AGO404. Norman Conquest: Colonising Ireland (Part 4)
Irish invasion justified by racist propaganda
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14 OCT5D AGO404. Norman Conquest: Colonising Ireland (Part 4)
Population explosion as the driver of expansion
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14 OCT5D AGO404. Norman Conquest: Colonising Ireland (Part 4)
Political fragmentation enabled conquest in Wales and Ireland
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7 OCT2W AGO402. The Norman Conquests: The Real Story of 1066 (Part 2)
Harold's hasty coronation as a sign of weak claim
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7 OCT2W AGO402. The Norman Conquests: The Real Story of 1066 (Part 2)
Northumbrian rebellion as anti-Godwin pushback
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30 SEP3W AGO400. Stalin: A Poisonous Legacy (Part 6)
Putin's Stalin revival as wartime propaganda
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30 SEP3W AGO400. Stalin: A Poisonous Legacy (Part 6)
Putin as the ultimate synthesist of Russian history
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30 SEP3W AGO400. Stalin: A Poisonous Legacy (Part 6)
Historical amnesia enables Stalin's rehabilitation
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30 SEP3W AGO400. Stalin: A Poisonous Legacy (Part 6)
KGB background as a defining facet of Putin
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30 SEP3W AGO400. Stalin: A Poisonous Legacy (Part 6)
Putin's poisonings as Stalinist terror legacy
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30 SEP3W AGO400. Stalin: A Poisonous Legacy (Part 6)
Putin's KGB-style charm offensive on US leaders
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30 SEP3W AGO400. Stalin: A Poisonous Legacy (Part 6)
Ukraine war as a competitive war of attrition
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30 SEP3W AGO400. Stalin: A Poisonous Legacy (Part 6)
State reprogramming of history as a classic trope
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26 SEP3W AGO399. Stalin: Hitler’s Downfall At Stalingrad (Part 5)
Stalingrad as the war's decisive hinge
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26 SEP3W AGO399. Stalin: Hitler’s Downfall At Stalingrad (Part 5)
Stalingrad as WWII's decisive turning point
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26 SEP3W AGO399. Stalin: Hitler’s Downfall At Stalingrad (Part 5)
Stalingrad as the psychological turning point
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26 SEP3W AGO399. Stalin: Hitler’s Downfall At Stalingrad (Part 5)
Aerial bombardment creating a defensive rubble fortress
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26 SEP3W AGO399. Stalin: Hitler’s Downfall At Stalingrad (Part 5)
The 'War of Rats' negated German tactics
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26 SEP3W AGO399. Stalin: Hitler’s Downfall At Stalingrad (Part 5)
Stalingrad as the Soviet superpower moment
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26 SEP3W AGO399. Stalin: Hitler’s Downfall At Stalingrad (Part 5)
Hitler's obsession with Stalingrad's symbolic name
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26 SEP3W AGO399. Stalin: Hitler’s Downfall At Stalingrad (Part 5)
Operation Uranus as an ambitious encirclement
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26 SEP3W AGO399. Stalin: Hitler’s Downfall At Stalingrad (Part 5)
Stalin's shift to military expertise
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26 SEP3W AGO399. Stalin: Hitler’s Downfall At Stalingrad (Part 5)
Hitler's fatal order to stand firm
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26 SEP3W AGO399. Stalin: Hitler’s Downfall At Stalingrad (Part 5)
Bombing created an ideal defensive rubble
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26 SEP3W AGO399. Stalin: Hitler’s Downfall At Stalingrad (Part 5)
Stalingrad's psychological boost for global resistance
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26 SEP3W AGO399. Stalin: Hitler’s Downfall At Stalingrad (Part 5)
Strategic bombing as the unacknowledged second front
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26 SEP3W AGO399. Stalin: Hitler’s Downfall At Stalingrad (Part 5)
Soviet 'hugging' tactic to counter air power
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26 SEP3W AGO399. Stalin: Hitler’s Downfall At Stalingrad (Part 5)
The feral existence of trapped civilians
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26 SEP3W AGO399. Stalin: Hitler’s Downfall At Stalingrad (Part 5)
Soviet winter kit superiority over Germans
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