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Witnesses, wives, politicians, soldiers: the women of Waterloo

  • Written by The Conversation
imageNapoleon's step-daughter Hortense and his second wife Marie-Louise.

The nature of warfare 200 years ago made the Battle of Waterloo a predominantly male affair. But, two centuries on, the history of the battle and our understanding of it by no means have to be predominantly male affairs too. If we see the battle in its wider context of...

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Weathermen of Westeros: does the climate in Game of Thrones make sense?

  • Written by The Conversation
imageSomeone knit this young man a nice woolly hat.HBO

The climate has been a persistent theme of Game of Thrones ever since Ned Stark (remember him?) told us “winter is coming” back at the start of season one. The Warden of the North was referring, of course, to the anticipated shift in Westerosi weather from a long summer to a brutal...

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  1. Can the European Parliament save us from TTIP?
  2. The only way to meet green energy targets is to hand some power back to Scotland
  3. Islamic State: blend of religious fervour and technical know-how makes a formidable foe
  4. Royal Commission into union corruption will grill Shorten
  5. Deutsche does the decent thing as joint CEOs take it on the chin
  6. Things some birds will do to avoid a cuckoo finch in their nest
  7. Zhou goes down – but China's corruption purge is on thin ice
  8. Review: An Audience with Jimmy Savile – this is a vital play
  9. No quick fix for pupils with a fixed mindset about their own intelligence
  10. What residents of an English mining town learned from visiting Aboriginal communities
  11. Abbott won't say whether Australia paid people smugglers to turn boat around
  12. Beyond dinosaurs, what would we need to create a Jurassic World?
  13. Could one million smart pool pumps 'store' renewable energy better than giant batteries?
  14. Puerto Rico's long fall from 'shining star' to the 'Greece' of the Caribbean
  15. Gifts of cash may be best way to rebuild lives of disaster victims
  16. Modifying mosquitoes to stop transmission of dengue fever
  17. In the Science retraction, a learning moment for researchers and the public
  18. 'Strangling angel' of diptheria caught Spain off guard – here's how
  19. Arguments matter, even if they come down to “semantics”
  20. Goodbye Christopher Lee, the aristocrat of Satanic darkness
  21. We've reduced demand for cigarettes, next step is to target the supply
  22. How to sail through space on sunbeams – solar satellite leads the way
  23. All for one and one for all, except when it comes to NATO
  24. AI 'cheating' scandal makes machine learning sound like a sport – it isn't
  25. How bookies play with your emotions to make you place unlikely bets
  26. Two years on from Snowden, UK gets green light to continue accessing bulk data
  27. Democracy in Africa: the ebbs and flows over six decades
  28. Science alone can't shift anti-gay prejudice in Africa
  29. African scientists recognise that diverse sexuality is the norm
  30. Madagascan dogs hail from Africa, unlike their human counterparts
  31. Better connectivity has economic spinoffs for Africa
  32. Religious freedom should not necessitate sexual discrimination
  33. Coal closures give South Australia the chance to go 100% renewable
  34. Listen to me: machines learn to understand how we speak
  35. Pasolini, with Willem Dafoe, offers an unconventional biopic – review
  36. Is illegal phoenix activity rife among construction companies?
  37. Bonn climate summit brings us slowly closer to a global deal
  38. After Rupert – welcome to the game of thrones at News Corp
  39. Ambassador's return to Indonesia shows his recall was futile
  40. Killing cats, rats and foxes is no silver bullet for saving wildlife
  41. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Joe Hockey's blunder
  42. State view won't change marriage in eyes of a man and woman's God
  43. The facts on Australian housing affordability
  44. Without teacher guidance, all the tech in the world will be quite useless
  45. Why we still collect butterflies
  46. What the 'dad bod' phenomenon says about the priorities of our media and culture
  47. Government wants improvement in use of its Iraq contribution
  48. Historical texts as literature? We do well to praise EP Thompson
  49. Jurassic World: if you make a monster it will always bite back
  50. The real science on wind farms, noise, infrasound and health

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