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Why Do Religions Decline?
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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8 Works of Paul Klee You Should Know
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Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
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What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King
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The Scene That Reveals the Beauty of Classic Hollywood Cinema
1939 is widely considered the greatest year in Hollywood history. Back then, writes 1939: The Year...
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1939 is widely considered the greatest year in Hollywood history. Back then, writes 1939: The Year in Movies author Tom Flannery, the so-called “Big Eight” major American studios “had a combined 590 actors, 114 directors and 340 writers under contract, each of whom worked an...
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Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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Democracy
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The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
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Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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Can you REALLY be offended on behalf of someone else??
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5 Women in Logic You Should Know
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Discover Norman Rockwell’s America (& His Legacy)
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Empedocles
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Why Did Ukraine Make Stamps of Banksy’s Art?
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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Fisher Landau Sale at Sotheby’s Brought $406 M.
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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Open Culture
How A Charlie Brown Christmas, and Its Beloved Soundtrack Album, Almost Never Happened
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A Charlie Brown Christmas uses a cast of amateur child voice actors, deals with the theme of seasonal depression, and culminates in the recitation of a Bible verse, all to a jazz score. It was not, safe to say, the special that CBS had expected, to say nothing of its sponsor, the...
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
On the Spot: Levi Roach
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Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
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Open Culture
Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Kids–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK...
I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a...
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I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a cold and grim Christmas in 1977, that’s exactly what happened. While many Britons were settling in for a warm yuletide, the Pistols decided to host a party/benefit for the...
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New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
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Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
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Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
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Ovid's Dating Advice
Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
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Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
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Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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What Ere Iyaric and “I and I”? Rastafarian Resistance Through Language
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Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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UNESCO Creates a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
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How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
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Open Culture
Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from...
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Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Insects’ Christmas, above. In addition to offering brief respite from the chaos of consumerism and modern expectations, this...
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The Eye of Every Storm : Anarchist Response to Hurricane Helene
At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30...
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At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30 inches of rainfall over two days when an unnamed storm collided with Hurricane Helene over the mountains of Southern Appalachia. The resulting catastrophe laid waste to the entire...
Classical Wisdom
Who’s in the Tomb?
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
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A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
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Summary of changes for November 2024
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a month ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
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Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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Psychology & Spirituality: Exploring the Intersection With Carl Jung’s Analytical Psychology
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The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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Summary of changes for August 2023
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a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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100r.co, added Heriot Bay, Ballet Bay Octopus Islands, and...
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
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Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal
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4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground...
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Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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Anglo-Saxon England’s Last 50 Years: A True Game of Thrones
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Let's Be Enemies
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Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white...
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This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails. A leading figure in early American abstraction, Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) was an American painter, poet,...
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Who Was Carl Gustav Jung?
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5 Facts About Ukko, Finland’s Axe-Wielding God of Thunder
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How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
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Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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Summary of changes for August
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
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Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
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Who Was Gabriele D’Annunzio?
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Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
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Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
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How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
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Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
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Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor
The Life and Work of Pheidias
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The Life and Work of Pheidias
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The Election That Caused the Boer War
The Election That Caused the Boer War
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Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:19
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The Election That Caused the Boer War
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Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:19
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Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
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What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and white hints and pulls you in whereas colour can distract and reflect? LensCulture magazine celebrates black and white photography with is 2024 Black and White awards. “The enduring...
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb)...
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This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
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Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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More Banksy Animals Appear Across London
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6 Assassinations That Changed History
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The Diversity Paradox.
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It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
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How to Celebrate the Love of Learning
Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
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Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
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Who Was Tertullian?
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Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
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Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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Women Portraitists of the Renaissance: A League of Their Own
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Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was...
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“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was drawing to a close” – Kathryn McCool on life in New Zealand in the 1980s Kathryn McCool was 18 when her father gave her a camera (a Ricoh SLR) he’d bought at auction. As Kathryn …...
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The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
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The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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