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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
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How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye
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What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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Mystery at Cheviot Beach: The Strange Disappearance of Harold Holt
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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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Was Emperor Nero Universally Hated During His Reign?
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Forgotten Sandro Botticelli Piece Seized by Italian Authorities
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How Foreshadowing Shapes Cinema and Storytelling
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Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Hey everyone!
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Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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The Skeleton Dance, Voted the 18th Best Cartoon of All Time, Is Now in the Public Domain (1929)
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending...
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At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending over an estimated 1.2 million square kilometers in West Africa. Encompassing at least five modern African states, the empire produced some of the continent's most renowned historical...
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
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Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
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A History of the US House of Representatives
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How did Mao Lead China, and What did He Leave Behind?
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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the rock of polynesia
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Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow?
We'd also heard that the school...
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The Death of Einhard the Historian
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961.
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Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
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In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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The Long Run.
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yesterday
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How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter ...
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uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
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Plato On Knowledge
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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Hundred Rabbits
an island to oneself
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things...
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Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
Many of the...
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