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Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
TheCollector
Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Tokyo
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8 months ago
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Deadly Wildfires Devastate Los Angeles Art Community
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Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach
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Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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What Was the Relationship Between Cezanne and Zola?
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TheCollector
What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over 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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
TheCollector
What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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11 Amazing Rooms & Artworks in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj
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TheCollector
How the Nazis Rescued Benito Mussolini: The Gran Sasso Raid
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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TheCollector
The Collector’s Guide for the Art Fair
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Open Culture
How A Charlie Brown Christmas, and Its Beloved Soundtrack Album, Almost Never Happened
A Charlie Brown Christmas uses a cast of amateur child voice actors, deals with the theme of...
3 weeks ago
A Charlie Brown Christmas uses a cast of amateur child voice actors, deals with the theme of seasonal depression, and culminates in the recitation of a Bible verse, all to a jazz score. It was not, safe to say, the special that CBS had expected, to say nothing of its sponsor, the...
Overcoming Bias
Love And War And Status
“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
a month ago
“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
TheCollector
How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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5 months ago
Open Culture
Compare the “It Ain’t Me Babe” Scene from A Complete Unknown to the Real Bob Dylan & Joan Baez...
A Complete Unknown, the new movie about Bob Dylan’s rise in the folk-music scene of the early...
a week ago
A Complete Unknown, the new movie about Bob Dylan’s rise in the folk-music scene of the early nineteen-sixties and subsequent electrified break with it, has been praised for not taking excessive liberties, at least by the standards of popular music biopics. Its conversion of a...
History Today Feed
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
7 months ago
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Aristotle's Politics
4 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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TheCollector
World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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7 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave!
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today...
over a year ago
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today is usually a pretty mundane – if not a pleasant – experience. Indeed, the rise of traditional barbershops over the past few years, offering shaving as an experience, together with...
TheCollector
Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/03/2024 - 08:59
a month ago
Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/03/2024 - 08:59
History Today Feed
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
2 months ago
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
TheCollector
Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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5 months ago
Flashbak
Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
a year ago
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac Sprague (1811–1895) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter. He was a self-taught landscape, botanical and ornithological painter. Sprague served...
Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
11 months ago
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
TheCollector
Baron Von Steuben: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell During the USA’s Founding
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Life of Aristotle
More Than A Philosopher
a year ago
TheCollector
How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt?
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TheCollector
What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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TheCollector
What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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TheCollector
Marcus Garvey: A Leader in the Pan-Africanist Movement
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Art Basel Miami Beach Faces Protests
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TheCollector
10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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7 months ago
Flashbak
Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray...
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade....
a year ago
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
TheCollector
The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
a year ago
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
TheCollector
Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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TheCollector
A History of the United States Senate
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a year ago
Flashbak
The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific...
4 months ago
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
Dreams of Space -...
The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
a year ago
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that was a give-away from Lord and Taylor's Department stores. With it's moon dust snowflakes and 1970s design it is a winner every Christmas. I especially enjoy how Santa has to get...
TheCollector
Was Henry VIII Really a Protestant?
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9 months ago
Res Obscura
The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
a year ago
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
Wrong Side of...
Inside the Catholic State
The world that created Caravaggio
2 months ago
The world that created Caravaggio
Dreams of Space -...
The Eager Beaver Space Book (1962)
As I keep digging in my collection I have found Space Beavers! This was a promotional comic book...
2 days ago
As I keep digging in my collection I have found Space Beavers! This was a promotional comic book from Cities Service gasoline. It probably was a give-away with purchase. It reflects the early 60s where the Mercury launches had taken place and we were looking ahead to the future....
TheCollector
What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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Dr Alun Withey
News Just In: Dr W Joins TikTok – @dralun7
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still...
a month ago
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still only setting things up, so please be patient with the extremely cheesy and clunky vids as I try to work out what I’m doing! I’ve only got a couple of videos up at the moment too, …...
TheCollector
Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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TheCollector
How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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6 months ago
African History...
The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
a year ago
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
TheCollector
Heracles and the Lernaean Hydra: The Hero’s Second Labor
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a month ago
History Today Feed
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
10 months ago
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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a year ago
Flashbak
Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it...
2 months ago
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it presented creations by such couturiers as Louise Chéruit, Premet (best known for La Garconne, or The Flapper, a black dress with a white collar and cuffs introduced in 1923, Philip et...
TheCollector
The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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a year ago
Flashbak
A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
2 months ago
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
TheCollector
The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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Global Inequality...
The politics of physiocracy
Quesnay and China
12 months ago
TheCollector
Iakim Volkov’s Wedding: An Illustration of a Complicated History
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Wright Brothers?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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a year ago
TheCollector
A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore)
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Trying to Understand...
They Say They Want Rearmament ....
We-ell, you know ....
a year ago
TheCollector
Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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3 months ago
TheCollector
The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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a year ago
TheCollector
3 Beautiful Places in the South of England Tourists Neglect
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TheCollector
Hagia Sophia to Open Mysterious Underground Tunnels to Visitors
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a week ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks
3 weeks ago
TheCollector
First Nations of the Canadian Subarctic: A Brief History
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3 months ago
TheCollector
4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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3 months ago
TheCollector
UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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TheCollector
What Was Operation Ichi-Go?
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10 months ago
Flashbak
It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970,...
5 months ago
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Sites in Arizona
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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
Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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a year ago
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Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The Future of US Elections: Potential Changes and Emerging Issues
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2 months ago
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The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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a month ago
African History...
Historical links between the Ottoman empire and Sudanic Africa (1574-1880)
travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
a year ago
travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
TheCollector
What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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a year ago
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Digitization Reveals Cathedral’s Hidden Medieval Wall Paintings
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6 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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Albert Einstein: The Greatest Scientist of the 20th Century
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Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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Who Were the Important Jewish Philosophers of the Medieval Period?
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2 weeks ago
African History...
An episode of Naval warfare on the East African coast: the Sakalava invasions of 1792-1817
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
a year ago
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
TheCollector
Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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a year ago
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Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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a year ago
Flashbak
Roadside Relics of the USSR
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer...
3 months ago
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer Jason Guilbeau whose pointing out objects along the roadside, like tractors stuck atop poles, a pavement that turns into a jet’s trail, a tank on a plinth and more reminders of...
TheCollector
The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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6 months ago
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Christie’s to Auction $30 Million Basquiat Stretcher-Bar Painting
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Danish Unknown Royal Family Discovered Thanks to Ring
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
9 months ago
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
Res Obscura
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that...
8 months ago
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
TheCollector
What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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TheCollector
Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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a year ago
CrimethInc.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
a month ago
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in Syria are not over. Israel has bombed hundreds of locations around the country and seized a considerable amount of land in the southwest, while Turkish proxy forces are threatening...
TheCollector
Who Was Susan Sontag?
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a year ago
Overcoming Bias
Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
3 months ago
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
TheCollector
Who Was African American Lawman Bass Reeves?
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a month ago
Flashbak
The Metamorphoses du Jour by JJ Grandville – 1829
Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville...
2 weeks ago
Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville (born Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gérard; 1803-1847) is a satire on the bourgeois middle class of Parisian society in the Romantic period. Grandville’s characters have a human body and an...
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Fra Angelico’s Theology & Aesthetics in 3 Extraordinary Paintings
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4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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TheCollector
8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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TheCollector
Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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3 months ago
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