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Magna Carta

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• Originally published 10/15/2015

  Magna Carta Exhibition in China Is Abruptly Moved From University

  A public showing of one of the few surviving copies of the 13th-century document was shifted to the British ambassador’s residence, with no explanation given.

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• Originally published 07/09/2015

  This Is What the Media Forgot to Mention About Magna Carta

  Dr Gillian Polack

  It wasn’t the first written document of its kind.

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• Originally published 06/16/2015

  Magna Carta is a 'Russell Brand' moment claims historian David Starkey

  "I find it extraordinary that we're dragging the poor Queen here to commemorate the second greatest humiliation in the history of the monarchy."

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• Originally published 06/16/2015

  Historian Peter Linebaugh says Magna Carta provisions were violated at Guantanamo Bay (interview)

  "You take chapter 39 of Magna Carta, probably the most famous clause. That is, you can still find it on courthouses in the United States. You can still find it in old constitutional books. It prohibits torture."

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• Originally published 06/16/2015

  Stop Revering Magna Carta

  Tom Ginsburg

  The document’s fame rests on huge myths. But those myths have become their own reality.

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• Originally published 06/15/2015

  Magna Carta, Still Posing a Challenge at 800

  The problem is that scholars say the great charter settled a fight between a king and his lords.  Democracy?  Pashaw.

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• Originally published 06/10/2015

  The History & Legacy of Magna Carta Explained in Animated Videos by Monty Python’s Terry Jones

  Even those who paid next to no attention to their history teachers know about Magna Carta — or at least they know it first came about in 1215.

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• Originally published 06/03/2015

  Why Magna Carta was fundamentally a financial peace treaty

  Jane Frecknall-Hughes

  The 1215 Magna Carta contained some 63 clauses, more than 50 of which reflected various contemporary fiscal grievances.

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• Originally published 04/16/2015

  The Rule of History

  Jill Lepore

  Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, and the hold of time.

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• Originally published 03/27/2015

  Magna Carta Messed Up the World, Here’s How to Fix It

  Noam Chomsky

  The “logic” of capitalist development has left a nightmare of environmental destruction in its wake.

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• Originally published 03/17/2015

  From fascism to parking tickets – some odd Magna Carta moments

  Eight hundred years after King John made history when he fixed his seal to the Magna Carta, the public is being re-introduced to one of the most famous documents in political history.

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• Originally published 02/09/2015

  Lost copy of Magna Carta discovered in the archives of a county council in England

  An edition of the Magna Carta which could be worth up to £10 million has been found after it lay forgotten in a council’s archives.

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• Originally published 10/17/2013

  Fifty years after Kennedy death, Dallas opens an old wound

  It took years for Dallas to overcome its legacy as the "City of Hate."

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• Originally published 06/16/2015

  It's Ok to Celebrate Magna Carta

  Mark Byrnes's Facing Backwards

  It's still OK to celebrate Magna Carta. After all, we're all talking about a birthday here.