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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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Digitization Reveals Cathedral’s Hidden Medieval Wall Paintings
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
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Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition: What is an Active Life?
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a child he harboured dreams of becoming a photographer. He roamed around his parents’ home and snapped pictures in his head. He had a talent for it which he thought of turning into a...
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
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Summary of changes for March
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
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History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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