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Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
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Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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What Are the Scientific Roots of Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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Weekend Roundup
Classics Gifts!
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10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th...
3 weeks ago
Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th Century writing templates typography and calligraphy turn visual language into something beautiful. Beginning in the early 20th Century, the Ludlow Typograph Company (1906 to late...
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
4 months ago
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
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September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye
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Gladiator Combat
Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
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Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 1, 2023
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
a year ago
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
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Who Was Vernon Lee?
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6 (In)Famous Gunslingers of the Wild West
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Classical Wisdom
Is Subjective Equal to Objective?
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the...
a year ago
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the middle of winter, and finally, around four months later, the first real spring day had arrived. The sun bore her rays magnificently, forcing the city’s residents into an ant-like...
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Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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African History...
a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
a year ago
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 -...
9 months ago
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 - 09:54
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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African History...
A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900.
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies...
a month ago
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies across the continent during the bronze age.
Trying to Understand...
The Past Is Another Country.
A book review from the future.
5 months ago
A book review from the future.
Wrong Side of...
The Tears of Strangers are only water
On the limits of empathy
a month ago
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
2 months ago
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
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The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments)
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal
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What Was the Third Council of Constantinople?
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Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met
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Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav...
3 months ago
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
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Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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How Are Art and Science Related?
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Euripides’ Lost Plays
Euripides’ Lost Plays
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
2 months ago
Euripides’ Lost Plays
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Mon, 10/14/2024 - 10:38
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Love and Death
a year ago
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Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints
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The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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What’s the History of Gin?
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Patterns in Humanity
Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid...
a year ago
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid advancements in science and technology happening in the 1400s. With improvements in cartography, ship and other maritime technology, and an increased desire to understand and discover...
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Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads....
10 months ago
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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5 Quotes by Sartre Explained: What These Words Mean for Us Today
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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Elliott Erwitt: A Brilliant Photographer Who Took Great Snapshots
“The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera” – Elliott Erwitt ...
a year ago
“The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera” – Elliott Erwitt Elliott Erwitt died at his home in New York City on 29 November 2023. He leaves us with remarkable archive of fabulous photographs of the great and good, the many places he visited over...
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Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
a year ago
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to take advantage of the excitement about this launch. So they had to include a booklet to explain why this slightly inaccurate model was so special. Imagine opening the model kit...
Overcoming Bias
Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
2 months ago
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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What Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England?
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What Was the First Written Language?
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Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
9 months ago
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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Top 10 Plays by William Shakespeare
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William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
7 months ago
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
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Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a...
4 months ago
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a project to document New York City’s rich history of architecture and fashion. Cunningham dressed his friend and fellow photographer Editta Sherman (July 9, 1912 – November 1, 2013)...
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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Trying to Understand...
It's War, Josep, But Not As We Know It
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
over a year ago
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
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Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes:...
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Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. – William Shakespeare, The Tempest, illustrated by Arthur Rackham 1926 Arthur...
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Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius
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Dreams of Space -...
Beyond Mars (1960)
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
a year ago
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps in space including: solar sailing, travel to Saturn via long distance trips to the outer solar system, multi-year hibernation travel, hydroponics, and visiting other solar...
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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Architectural Wizardry: 4 Fascinating Works by Antoni Gaudi
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What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in...
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The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
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Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini: A Friendship Ruined by Ghosts
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Open Culture
A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
6 days ago
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
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Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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Who Won the Second Battle of Bull Run?
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CrimethInc.
How to Organize an Assembly : Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism
There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to...
a month ago
There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to solve their problems, suddenly realize that their only hope is to make contact with others like themselves and work together. Perhaps a hurricane has just torn through the state,...
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Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
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Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
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Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
9 months ago
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
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Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Prepare for the Worst?
Without living forever in fear and worry?
5 months ago
Without living forever in fear and worry?
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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Who Was the Fifth Beatle?
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a year ago
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
7 months ago
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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