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Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
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What Is Appropriation in Art?
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Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
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Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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King John’s Lost Treasure
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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Why Do Religions Decline?
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Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of...
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Dreams of Space -...
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An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
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Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
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Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns?
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History Today Feed
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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The intellectual history of Ethiopia and Eritrea: Ge'ez manuscripts and scholars (ca. 200-1900CE)
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What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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