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What Are the Challenges of Creating ‘True Crime’ Stories?
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The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover
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Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:14
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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The kinetic phase may come next.
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The Last Day of World War One
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2 months ago
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greek Astronomy
Ursa Major
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Hundred Rabbits
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over a year ago
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Left, added a...
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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African History...
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10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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over a year ago
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Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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CrimethInc.
How to Organize an Assembly : Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism
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Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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Who Was Vivienne Westwood?
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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6 Incredible Roman Sites in Spain
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Patterns in Humanity
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7 months ago
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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History Today Feed
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
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Fri, 12/20/2024 - 09:47
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Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
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What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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Dr Alun Withey
Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one...
a year ago
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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Psychology & Spirituality: Exploring the Intersection With Carl Jung’s Analytical Psychology
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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Patterns in Humanity
The Dark Ages
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Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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a year ago
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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Who Was Oswald Mosley?
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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
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The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
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Digitization Reveals Cathedral’s Hidden Medieval Wall Paintings
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Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the...
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Hundred Rabbits
an island to oneself
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over a year ago
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Many of the...
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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Architectural Wizardry: 4 Fascinating Works by Antoni Gaudi
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What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism?
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic...
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5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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Archdruid William Price Challenges Funerary Rites
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How to Celebrate the Love of Learning
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What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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What Are the Key Influences That Shaped the French New Wave?
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Alexander’s Destruction of Thebes in 335 BCE (Battle & Aftermath)
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Empedocles
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Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal
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Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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Hidden History
Museum Ship Destroyer USS Kidd
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a...
2 months ago
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Fall of Constantinople (1453): The Siege That Changed the World
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5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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A Collection of...
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Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
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Res Obscura
Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
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The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
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Ovid's Dating Advice
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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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a year ago
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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[Coming Soon] The Essential Greeks
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The Skeletons of Shanidar Cave: What Can They Tell Us About the Past?
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
over a year ago
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TheCollector
How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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Flashbak
Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was...
9 months ago
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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Memorial Day Weekend Sale
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Memorial Day Weekend Sale
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Why Early Modern Books Are So Beautiful
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plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
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5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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What Was the Relationship Between Cezanne and Zola?
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
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Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
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Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
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Which Playwright did it better?
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What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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Who Was Julius Caesar?
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Open Culture
The Longest Construction Projects in History: Why Sagrada Família, the Milan Duomo, Greek Temples &...
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Rastafari Philosophical Tenets: Divinity Within & African Redemption
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Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
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Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
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How Mexico Fought Franco
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How Mexico Fought Franco
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How to Steal From Homer
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Flashbak
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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Ancient Greek Art
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Frida Kahlo Exhibition Heads to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
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10 Cultural Sites in New York City You Should See
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The Pilgrim as a Historian
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Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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