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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
7 months ago
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
Hundred Rabbits
Wood stove installation
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that...
over a year ago
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that the best model was the cast iron Sardine from Navigator Stoveworks.
Our Espar forced air diesel heater broke on our last passage, and we decided not to replace it. There are few...
TheCollector
Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the 7 Most Spoken Languages in the World?
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How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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a year ago
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Give All to Love: A New Documentary on Ralph Waldo Emerson Debuts
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a year ago
TheCollector
Michelangelo Scribble Sells For $200,000
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World
War Stoppers and God Makers
9 months ago
War Stoppers and God Makers
History Today Feed
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
10 months ago
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
TheCollector
Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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8 months ago
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History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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6 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical...
5 months ago
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical assumptions of Imperator: Rome, a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, set during the rise and collapse of the Roman Republic from 304-27 BC and covering the broader...
Flashbak
Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s...
8 months ago
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
TheCollector
How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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3 months ago
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What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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African History...
A muslim kingdom in the Ethiopian highlands: the history of Ifat and Adal ca. 1285-1520.
During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most...
6 months ago
During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most powerful dynasties, whose history significantly shaped the region's social landscape. The history of one of these dynasties, often referred to as the Solomonids, has been...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Philosophy for Children
a year ago
Ancient Philosophy for Children
TheCollector
How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Ali Ansari
On the Spot: Ali Ansari
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:28
9 months ago
On the Spot: Ali Ansari
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:28
Flashbak
The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from...
6 months ago
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from Japan. It’s a subject we’ve visited before with the Yokai Horrors from the 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll. Thought to originate in the mid 1800s, the artist behind the Kaikidan...
TheCollector
Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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2 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Hokusai & Hiroshige Become so Famous?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs
Factoids From the Ancient World
a month ago
Factoids From the Ancient World
TheCollector
Top Five Painters To Watch in 2024
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a year ago
Flashbak
Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
a month ago
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
Res Obscura
"He spoke of computers with some awe"
Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
9 months ago
Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
TheCollector
What Are the Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela?
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5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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TheCollector
London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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a year ago
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The Pilgrim as a Historian
The Pilgrim as a Historian
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
a month ago
The Pilgrim as a Historian
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:50
TheCollector
What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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TheCollector
First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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5 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added propeller maintenance, Maple Bay, Telegraph Cove,...
TheCollector
Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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a year ago
TheCollector
A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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6 months ago
TheCollector
How did Mao Lead China, and What did He Leave Behind?
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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11 months ago
Res Obscura
A very deep history of Halloween
Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
2 months ago
Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
Trying to Understand...
Will it Bend or Will it Break?
The international system, that is.
a year ago
The international system, that is.
TheCollector
Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Strange Election Systems Around the World
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
8 months ago
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
History Today Feed
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
2 months ago
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
TheCollector
Sri Lanka’s Top 6 Must-See Historic Sites
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7 months ago
TheCollector
6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Ski Towns in the US
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a week ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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a year ago
TheCollector
Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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9 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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6 months ago
TheCollector
5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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11 months ago
Global Inequality...
Trump and the Rise of Asia
My interview with "Atlantico"
a month ago
My interview with "Atlantico"
TheCollector
4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The KGB After Stalin
The KGB After Stalin
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
a year ago
The KGB After Stalin
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
Trying to Understand...
Useless in Gaza
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
a year ago
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
TheCollector
Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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TheCollector
The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How to Celebrate the Love of Learning
Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
a year ago
Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
TheCollector
Who Were the Important Jewish Philosophers of the Medieval Period?
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TheCollector
Monet Haystack Painting Could Fetch $30 Million at Auction Next Month
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain?
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6 months ago
Flashbak
El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned...
3 months ago
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
TheCollector
The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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a year ago
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Silvio Berlusconi’s Worthless Art Collection
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Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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a month ago
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
a month ago
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
TheCollector
4 Controversial Films: What Horrifies Movie Critics?
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10 months ago
Global Inequality...
Freedom to be “wrong”: the only real advantage of democracy
Why the liberal project will fail
10 months ago
Why the liberal project will fail
weird medieval guys
Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns?
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
a year ago
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
TheCollector
The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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a year ago
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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8 months ago
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10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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a year ago
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Venice Plan for Damaged Banksy Mural Concerns Locals
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a year ago
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James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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6 months ago
TheCollector
5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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3 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Building Reading Skills (1951)
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an...
a year ago
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
Trying to Understand...
Arming Ourselves Against The Future.
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
a year ago
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It...
over a year ago
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
Res Obscura
Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
a year ago
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
Flashbak
Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his...
4 months ago
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
TheCollector
The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there...
11 months ago
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
TheCollector
Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Rabbit Waves and Logbooks. Updated woodstove installation, no windlass with 1 photo, mini dodger and Victoria to Sitka logbook with Week 3...
TheCollector
Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 Most Impressive Villas and Palaces to Visit in Rome
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11 months ago
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Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights
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Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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8 months ago
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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a year ago
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Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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8 months ago
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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4 months ago
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History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Plato On Knowledge
What is True?
8 months ago
TheCollector
7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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a year ago
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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3 months ago
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Georgian Wine: The World’s Oldest Wine Producer in 4 Great Wineries
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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a year ago
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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Hidden Figure Identified in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco
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Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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4 months ago
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