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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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History Today Feed
In Defence of Boring Books
In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
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In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
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Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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Thu, 12/14/2023 - 09:33
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Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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Louis XIV: History’s Longest-Reigning Monarch
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6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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When Was the First Crusade?
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How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
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With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
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Art of the Etruscans
Romans before the Romans
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican
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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
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Thu, 07/18/2024 - 08:00
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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
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Thu, 07/18/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist...
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Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
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Mazes and Labyrinths: An Illustrated History (1922)
“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” –...
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“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” – Philip K. Dick, VALIS William H. Matthews leads us through his 1922 book Mazes and Labyrinths from his home in Ruislip in the English county of Middlesex. Compiled shortly...
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How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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What Is Absolute Idealism According to Hegel?
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11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
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Trying to Understand...
Stop Making Sense.
There are no "why"s in our world.
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There are no "why"s in our world.
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10 Small but Historic Countries You Didn’t Know About
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Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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Global Inequality...
The end of the great order under the Heaven
A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
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A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
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Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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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.
History Today Feed
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
African History...
A complete history of the old city of Gao ca. 700-1898.
Journal of African cities: chapter 12
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Journal of African cities: chapter 12
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Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights
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Wrong Side of...
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Classical Wisdom
On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human...
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Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human beings, if they care about them at all?
TheCollector
5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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Should We Glorify Caesar?
And Those Like Him?
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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Hume on Personal Identity: Who Are We?
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King
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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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Prince Charles III Portrait Defaced by Animal Right Activists
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Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
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The Newer World Order.
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But can they get their heads round it?
TheCollector
The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
Dr Alun Withey
Beard Fashions and Class
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
over a year ago
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
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A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known...
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Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known as visible light, or light that can be processed and seen by the human eye. It’s a little fraction of all the EM radiation around us. There are many other parts of the EM spectrum...
TheCollector
Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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Classical Wisdom
12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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...
TheCollector
5 Transformative Leaders That Shaped British History
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People, States and Borders.
And other dubious ideas.
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Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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What Was the Oregon Trail? History and Legacy
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Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in...
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“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.” ― C.S. Lewis In his 1955 book Surprised by joy : the...
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
9 months ago
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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Collectible Toys Worth $1000s: Rare Finds With High Prices
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Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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What Is the History of Halloween?
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Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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How to Revive Wassailing
How to Revive Wassailing
j.hoare
Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
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How to Revive Wassailing
j.hoare
Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
TheCollector
Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes...
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“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes Stephen Harmon, a retired lawyer who first lived on New York City’s West End Avenue and 73rd street. “I am a photographer and set out to preserve it on film because I knew the...
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/26/2023 - 00:00
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/26/2023 - 00:00
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Encaustic Painting: An Ancient Art Form Explained
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
a year ago
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
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American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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What Is the Ides of March?
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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Newest Banksy Mural Guarded After Vandalism
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Do Coincidences Mean Anything? Exploring Carl Jung’s Notion of Synchronicity
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Overcoming Bias
What Priority The Innocent?
It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
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It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
TheCollector
Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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5 months ago
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Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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8 months ago
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
5 months ago
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
TheCollector
D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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Classical Wisdom
How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
4 months ago
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
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What is Objectivism? Ayn Rand’s Philosophy
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Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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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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