The mixing started with Neolithic farmers and has been going on ever since.
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The oldest writing in a woman’s hand
I shall expect you, sister. Farewell, sister, my dearest soul, as I hope to prosper, and hail.
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Where are all the female bloggers? Here, in my weekly top ten posts.
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This law declares sex workers are sub-human - one-fifth of a human, to be precise.
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Did the "good old days" of history education ever exist?
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It was the art that caused me to leave the exhibition shaken, almost overwhelmed ...
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Let's imagine an actual suicide bomber is approaching - presumably in peak hour, when the entrance hall will be packed ...
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Where are all the female bloggers? Here, in my weekly top ten posts.
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If you read, or post, a great blog item about anything from Neanderthals to Boris Yeltsin, tell me about it ...
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In the English plays she soon becomes 'a comic butt for Adam's misogynistic humour' ...
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