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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
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Patterns in Humanity
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Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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Brussels Statue Supposedly Damaged by Irish Tourist
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Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
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“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime Richard Klein, Professor of French at Cornell University and editor of Diacritics, quit smoking while writing Cigarettes Are Sublime and has been nicotine-free ever since. So do...
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