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How Iran Won the West
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Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
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Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might
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Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those...
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When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
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What Is Populism?
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The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
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Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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Unveiling Romeo and Juliet: A Guide to Shakespeare’s Timeless Tragedy
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Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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Jews in the Roman Bathhouse
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
a year ago
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TheCollector
Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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Trying to Understand...
Bringing It All Back Home
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
a year ago
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
Dreams of Space -...
Man-Made Moons (1960)
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
a year ago
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant to be an example of isotype graphic design. This was a visual language created to unite the world without using words at all: International System Of Typographic Picture Education,...
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Who Was the Fifth Beatle?
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Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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Three Cabins Left
Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
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Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
4 months ago
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
A Collection of...
Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
a month ago
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
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Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini: A Friendship Ruined by Ghosts
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: Racism on a Federal Level
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Putting Pirates on Trial
Putting Pirates on Trial
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
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Putting Pirates on Trial
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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7 Key Beliefs and Practices From Hasidic Judaism
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Who Was George Hodel?
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
a year ago
‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
TheCollector
What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
3 months ago
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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...
Hidden History
Antarctic Snow Cruiser
In 1939, the United States began work on a colossal motor vehicle to be used for exploration and...
2 weeks ago
In 1939, the United States began work on a colossal motor vehicle to be used for exploration and field work in Antarctica. By 1939 Antarctica remained as one of the last unexplored regions on the planet. Norwegian adventurer Roald Amundsen had been the first human to reach the...
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Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the...
a year ago
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
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Sri Lanka’s Top 6 Must-See Historic Sites
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Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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London’s National Portrait Gallery Opens First Francis Bacon Show
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Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
a year ago
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in particular the oddity of the Romans not using spear-and-shield infantry (much), but it isn’t ready yet and other things have me quite busy, so fireside it is. Fortunately, we have...
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Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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Norman Rockwell Works Dispute Finally Over?
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Maccabean Revolt: How the Maccabees Beat the Seleucids
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Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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Global Inequality...
The ideology of Donald J. Trump
Does Donald J.
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Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while...
9 months ago
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
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High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
5 months ago
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
TheCollector
Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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Classical Wisdom
The Great Flood
...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
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...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
TheCollector
5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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How Did Religion Influence Law in the Ottoman Empire?
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
11 months ago
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
8 months ago
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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African History...
a brief note on the history of Music in Africa
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
a year ago
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
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Who Was Vortigern?
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Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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African History...
a brief note on themes in African art.
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
5 months ago
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
TheCollector
Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great...
10 months ago
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” —Duane Michals Through image sequences, framing, multiple exposures,...
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
a year ago
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
TheCollector
Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triump, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great...
10 months ago
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Romans and the heirs of Alexander, asking the question, “What can defeat a Macedonian sarisa-phalanx?” Last time, we started looking at...
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A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate,...
11 months ago
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
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What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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How Did the Victorian Dead Body Trade Operate?
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New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
Patterns in Humanity
Age and infertility
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Facts and misconceptions about maternal age-related infertility
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Frida Kahlo Exhibition Heads to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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Wrong Side of...
American polarisation
The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
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The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
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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Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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a year ago
History Today Feed
History Today Review of the Year
History Today Review of the Year
j.hoare
Thu, 12/28/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
History Today Review of the Year
j.hoare
Thu, 12/28/2023 - 00:00
Flashbak
Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The...
a year ago
Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The band had recently released their fourth album Juju (1981) and were working on their fifth A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982). While other punk bands had imploded, Siouxsie and the...
TheCollector
The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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What Was the Third Council of Constantinople?
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Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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Lost Battlefield of Alexander the Great Discovered in Türkiye
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9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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Trying to Understand...
That's The Truth?
In politics, well, it depends.
a year ago
In politics, well, it depends.
Classical Wisdom
Winged Victory
Art of the Hellenistic Period
a year ago
Art of the Hellenistic Period
TheCollector
Who Is Pina Bausch?
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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Understanding JS Bach in 5 Compositions
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence European Art?
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