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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
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Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
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Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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‘The Tree Hunter’ by Thomas Pakenham review
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These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
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“I try not to present villages in a romantic way’ – Jindřich Štreit Jindřich Štreit (born 5 September 1946 in Vsetín) is a Czech photographer best known for his documentary photography. He concentrates on documenting the rural life and people of Czech villages. His...
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Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
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Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
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While West Africa has been part of the Muslim world since the late Middle Ages, as famously demonstrated by the golden pilgrimage of Mali's Mansa Musa in 1324, Islam had only arrived in the region at the close of the 1st millennium.
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Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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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...
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The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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What Are the Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela?
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What Is the History of the Guitar?
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
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“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
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The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted in one of the continent's longest-standing conflicts, which threatens to destroy the country's social fabric and its historical heritage. Just as the plight of modern Darfur...
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10 Historic Towns Near New York City to Visit
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