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plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
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Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
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The decline and fall of the print media.
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The decline and fall of the print media.
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach,...
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The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
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Classics Friday
Gifts for Wisdom Lovers
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Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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Dreams of Space -...
Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
a year ago
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
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5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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Hundred Rabbits
an island to oneself
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things...
over a year ago
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
Many of the...
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8 Unmissable UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia
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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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4 Novels by John Steinbeck You Should Read
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:20
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:20
Classical Wisdom
Should We Be More Naked?
Is modesty too modern?
a year ago
African History...
The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)
Journal of African cities chapter 8
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Journal of African cities chapter 8
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Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Have We Become Anti-Human?
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
a year ago
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
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9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, added 100r logo to splash screen on the rom.
100r.co, added a new page: diy carbonation system. Updated Saving fuel, Engine rebuild and...
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19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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African History...
Africa and Europe during the age of mutual exploration: a Swahili traveler's description of 19th...
The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on...
3 months ago
The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on a global scale in which African travelers were active agents.
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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Flashbak
Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French...
a month ago
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French readers in 1847. Baudelaire, who saw Poe as a “sacred soul” and something of a kindred spirit, translated many of the American writer’s words into French, including Poe’s poem The...
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Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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What Was the Kido Butai?
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Trying to Understand...
No More Heroes.
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
a month ago
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
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8 Sneaker Trends to be on the Look-out For in 2024
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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Dreams of Space -...
Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963)
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some...
11 months ago
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets.
Coombs, Charles. Illustrated by Foor, R. H. Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power. New York: William Morrow and Co. (96 p.)...
Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
History Today Feed
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
a year ago
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
TheCollector
Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ Targeted Again After Protestors Jailed
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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6 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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3 months ago
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Britons Caught in the French Revolution
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
8 months ago
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Battle of the Historians
a year ago
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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A Fistful of Clockwork Oranges
What's it going to be, then?
a year ago
What's it going to be, then?
Classical Wisdom
The Fall of a Republic
Cato and Caesar
a year ago
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Nixtamalization: How Ancient Americans Bio-Engineered Corn
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Mudslinging & Negative Campaigning: A Look at US Election Dirty Tricks
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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...
10 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...
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Farmer Discovers Massive Roman Mosaic in Türkiye
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Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
2 days ago
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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Upcoming Events
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a year ago
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Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant
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a year ago
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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3 months ago
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Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom...
4 months ago
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
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Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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Who Are the Most Famous Sorceresses of Greek Mythology?
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a year ago
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No Cheers for Authoritarianism
Remind me what it was, exactly ....
a year ago
Remind me what it was, exactly ....
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Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
9 months ago
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
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What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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9 months ago
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Weekend Roundup
Plutarch and Pleasure
a year ago
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On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:08
a month ago
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:08
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What Is Banksy’s Real Identity? (5 Scenarios)
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Res Obscura
Why drug history?
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
10 months ago
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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a year ago
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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What Made Tintoretto the Greatest Master of the Renaissance?
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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3 months ago
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
9 months ago
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
7 months ago
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
Trying to Understand...
Bringing It All Back Home
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
a year ago
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
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10 Must-Visit Historic Small Towns in the Adirondacks
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Remedios Varo: A Female Surrealist Painter Who Isn’t Frida Kahlo
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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a year ago
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/06/2024 - 11:03
10 months ago
‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/06/2024 - 11:03
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French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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Wrong Side of...
The chilling dawn of multiracial fascism
WOKE DOOD: WAT NOU?
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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What Are the 6 Tallest Mountains in Alaska?
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
8 months ago
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off...
7 months ago
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
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Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
11 months ago
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
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What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink...
11 months ago
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times – Tubthumping by Chumbawumba Pub? Go on, then. Let’s go. And …...
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What Is the Role of First Ladies in US Elections?
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Patterns in Humanity
Sweden's immigration taboo
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
4 months ago
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
9 months ago
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
Trying to Understand...
NATO's Phantom Armies.
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
7 months ago
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China
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Who Is the Father of Pentecostalism?
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Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain?
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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