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7 months ago
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
TheCollector
The Grand Egyptian Museum Soon Opens for Visitors
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
internet in paradise
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging...
over a year ago
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef.
Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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11 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review...
a month ago
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
a year ago
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
TheCollector
Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
UNESCO Creates a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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a year ago
TheCollector
3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Aristotle on Knowledge, Truth, and Error (6 Arguments)
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Why Do Religions Decline?
Why Do Religions Decline?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
a month ago
Why Do Religions Decline?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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a year ago
TheCollector
4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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8 months ago
Flashbak
Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art...
5 months ago
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art catalog published by Collaborative Projects (Colab) and Printed Matter, Inc. for Christmas 1982. Colab sought cultural activism that was purely artist driven. In addition to creating...
TheCollector
Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The Legacy of Emperor Pedro II: Brazil’s Golden Age
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3 weeks ago
Classical Wisdom
How to Give a Speech
Secrets from Cicero
4 months ago
TheCollector
The Phoenician Spoken & Written Language: What You Need to Know
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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a year ago
TheCollector
Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
9 months ago
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
TheCollector
How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the...
a year ago
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
TheCollector
Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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7 months ago
Flashbak
Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime ...
11 months ago
“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...
TheCollector
Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
3 months ago
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
TheCollector
How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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a month ago
TheCollector
Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
a year ago
Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Important Disciples of Jesus Christ?
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Mystery of Morpheus
Who is the God of Dreams?
a year ago
Who is the God of Dreams?
TheCollector
4 Feminist Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi
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10 months ago
TheCollector
4 Novels by John Steinbeck You Should Read
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
8 months ago
Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
TheCollector
The Musée d’Orsay Held An Immersive Van Gogh Show
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11 months ago
TheCollector
6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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a year ago
Overcoming Bias
Decision Selection Bias
As futarchy interest and activity are way up lately, this seems a good time to elaborate on one of...
3 weeks ago
As futarchy interest and activity are way up lately, this seems a good time to elaborate on one of its most technical issues, one that @metaproph3t also discussed recently: decision selection bias.
TheCollector
What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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a year ago
Flashbak
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton...
7 months ago
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
TheCollector
9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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6 months ago
TheCollector
How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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a year ago
TheCollector
Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The Historically Accurate Greek Armors of Dimitrios Katsikis (Interview)
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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a year ago
Flashbak
When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground...
6 months ago
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
TheCollector
What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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4 months ago
Flashbak
Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician....
a year ago
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
TheCollector
What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
6 months ago
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
TheCollector
First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
8 months ago
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
Classical Wisdom
Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
Should you meet your heroes?
8 months ago
Should you meet your heroes?
TheCollector
Was Henry VIII Really a Protestant?
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9 months ago
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...
Classical Wisdom
Winged Victory
Art of the Hellenistic Period
a year ago
Art of the Hellenistic Period
TheCollector
Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
a year ago
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
TheCollector
A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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7 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIa: How a Legion Fights
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second...
11 months ago
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander and the Roman legions. Last time, we looked at the Hellenistic army as a complete system, incorporating...
TheCollector
What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Sense Of An Ending.
But right back where we started from.
5 months ago
But right back where we started from.
A Collection of...
Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
3 months ago
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
TheCollector
How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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8 months ago
Flashbak
Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a...
5 months ago
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a project to document New York City’s rich history of architecture and fashion. Cunningham dressed his friend and fellow photographer Editta Sherman (July 9, 1912 – November 1, 2013)...
TheCollector
Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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12 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Hanseatic League?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Sepoy Mutiny of 1857: Causes, Events, & Legacy
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5 days ago
TheCollector
12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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a year ago
TheCollector
Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style
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a year ago
TheCollector
Newest Banksy Mural Guarded After Vandalism
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9 months ago
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...
TheCollector
Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Ides of March?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Quick Notification
In Search of Homer
3 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Populism?
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Myths and Metamorphoses
7 months ago
Flashbak
Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest...
a year ago
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest medieval conventions, sometimes depicted in water colour with fantastic elements such as human faces. The medicinal properties and preparations of the plants. Via University...
TheCollector
Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the...
6 months ago
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the 1960s and 1970s you’ve seen his work on movie posters and magazine covers. Born in Rome, Putzu studied at the Rome Academy and discovered a love of portrait painting. After...
TheCollector
A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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3 months ago
TheCollector
How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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9 months ago
Flashbak
Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me...
11 months ago
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
Trying to Understand...
A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
11 months ago
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
TheCollector
Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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a year ago
TheCollector
Ancient Marble Floor Restored Underwater in Italy
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6 months ago
TheCollector
King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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6 months ago
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