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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre,...
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Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it’s claimed)...
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Francisco Goya Research Center Launches in New York City
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Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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Crime in the USA
A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Father of the Turks
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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The Stars of Sun Records: 4 Famous Singers
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5 Women in Philosophy of Mind You Should Know
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5 Famous Black Mexicans
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
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The Soldier with a Secret: Who Was Sarah Emma Edmonds?
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
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6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
a year ago
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
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Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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African History...
Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
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The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Arizona
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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No End Of A Lesson.
If we can only learn it.
3 months ago
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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Overcoming Bias
Betrayed By Culture
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
3 months ago
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
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Who Was the Only U.S. President to Serve More Than Two Terms?
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The Life of Malcolm X: “You Had Better Make Some Noise”
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First Nations of the Canadian Subarctic: A Brief History
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What Was Cultural Life in the Weimar Republic Like?
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Global Inequality...
The ideology of Donald J. Trump
Does Donald J.
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
10 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
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100r.co, added gimballed stove, open pantry, Little Ninj and LPG fume detection system. Updated galley refit and Western Canada(includes tidal/current...
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Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights
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What is Postmodern Art? The Genre Defined in 8 Iconic Works
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us...
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Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
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How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Ski Towns in the US
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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What Is a Banana Republic?
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What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon
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Street Artist JR Installs Optical Illusion at Milan Train Station
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical...
7 months ago
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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The intellectual history of Ethiopia and Eritrea: Ge'ez manuscripts and scholars (ca. 200-1900CE)
The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably...
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The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably the best-known works of literature produced in pre-colonial Africa.
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Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has...
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What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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The Anat Ebgi Gallery Expands to Tribeca
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Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
7 months ago
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A...
5 months ago
In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A member of the Reflex photography group, led by documentarian Diane Bush, a young American established documentary photographer, Portus wanted to show the everyday things people...
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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What Are the Romance Languages?
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Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the...
over a year ago
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
Open Culture
Fred Armisen & Bill Hader’s Comedic Take on the History of Simon and Garfunkel
During their days filming Documentary Now!, a mockumentary series that aired on IFC, Fred Armisen...
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During their days filming Documentary Now!, a mockumentary series that aired on IFC, Fred Armisen and Bill Hader teamed up and created a fictionalized “history” of Simon and Garfunkel, telling the “real” story behind the making of “Bridge Over Troubled Water” and “Mrs....
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos...
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“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos that, even more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all their gleeful decadent fun.” – Michael Musto on New York City video blogger (vlogging) Nelson...
Dreams of Space -...
The Conquest of Space (1962?)
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a...
a year ago
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a couple of things I had not seen before. The Conquest of Space is a 1962 (?) Australian stamp album. It is intended for children to collect paper stamps they get in Nestle chocolate...
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War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
6 months ago
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam
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Radio Caroline, the Pirate Radio Ship That Rocked the British Music World (1965)
Nowadays musicians can reach hundreds, thousands, sometimes millions of listeners with a few,...
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Nowadays musicians can reach hundreds, thousands, sometimes millions of listeners with a few, usually free, online services and a minimal grasp of technology. That’s not to say there aren’t still economic barriers aplenty for the struggling artist, but true independence is not an...
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4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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‘Just Stop Oil’ Protestors Cover Stonehenge in Powder Paint
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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Sparta and… Scotland?
Laconic wit through the centuries
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Laconic wit through the centuries
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5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free
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12 Most Important Art Techniques of Modern Times
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Who Was the Real Henry III?
Who Was the Real Henry III?
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/15/2025 - 09:30
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Who Was the Real Henry III?
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Wed, 01/15/2025 - 09:30
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Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
over a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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The Historically Accurate Greek Armors of Dimitrios Katsikis (Interview)
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces of news.
12 months ago
And some bits and pieces of news.
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The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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Res Obscura
I talked to Terry Gross!
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled...
a year ago
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled posting
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
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Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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History as Tragedy?
A Different View of Thucydides
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A Different View of Thucydides
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Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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Venice Plan for Damaged Banksy Mural Concerns Locals
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Rare Exhibition of Roman Marbles Heads to North America
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A history of the Lozi kingdom. ca. 1750-1911.
state and society in south-central Africa
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state and society in south-central Africa
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Who Was Walt Whitman?
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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