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When Gold and Steel Collide
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History has long been defined by duels. Perhaps more a matter of narrative convenience than objective truth, the world’s most pivotal cultural and historical moments are routinely framed as a face-off between two sides. Our appetite for such neat oppositions is ubiquitous: we gamble on them, tell our stories by them, live our lives trying to be ‘one thing’ and not ‘another’. We formulate underdogs and favorites, winners and losers, more binaries than you can shake a stick at.Duels comprise much
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