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What Makes Jean-Luc Godard An Iconic Film Director?
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What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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How to Steal From Homer
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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The Infancy Gospel of Thomas & the Childhood of Jesus Christ
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Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
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Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
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10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
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What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire?
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Res Obscura
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Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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David Roberts & Frederick Catherwood: Artists of Ancient Egypt & Maya
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
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Ancient Marble Floor Restored Underwater in Italy
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Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
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U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
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How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
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8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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Summary Of Changes
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Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry?
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Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
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Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
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The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had...
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The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had its origin some 400 years ago in early attempts by the Shoguns to ban gambling and European playing cards. History When the Portuguese arrived in Japan in 1543, they established...
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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African History...
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plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
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Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire?
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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Textile trade and Industry in the kingdom of Kongo: 1483-1914
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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
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a brief note on the African exploration of the Old world
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy
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7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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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...
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5 Key Myths About the Greek God Hades
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Rise of Abraham Lincoln: The Road to the 1860 Election
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Magritte Sets $121 Million Auction Record
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
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Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In Your Face. Like Mark...
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Too Much of Not A Lot
Winning the day and losing the war.
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Classical Wisdom
Euripides
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Battle of Poitiers, by Charles de Steuben, 1837, via Wikimedia Commons
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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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
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Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
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Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids?
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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Hey everyone!
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A Collection of...
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The Secret Life of Latin
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Venice Plan for Damaged Banksy Mural Concerns Locals
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In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
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A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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African History...
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The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
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Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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Slavoj Zizek on the 2 Types of Violence
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Who Were the Samaritans?
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Overcoming Bias
Conquest and Liberation of Academia
During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
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What Is Marcel Duchamp’s Most Famous Painting?
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIb:
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The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
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How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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Brussels Statue Supposedly Damaged by Irish Tourist
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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What Makes a Hero a HERO?
Both in the ancient world... and today?
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Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
j.hoare
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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The Death of Clive of India
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The Death of Clive of India
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TheCollector
Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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Trying to Understand...
The Diversity Paradox.
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It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
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Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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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.
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travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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African History...
On Hegel's ignorance of African History
*my article for ROAPE journal
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*my article for ROAPE journal
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Largest UK Holbein Exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
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At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
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On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
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