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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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What Was the War of Jenkins’ Ear?
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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6 Crazy Facts about Cape Town
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Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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How to use generative AI for historical research
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
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When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who...
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a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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Wrong Side of...
Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
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The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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Gaius Marius
... and the Fall of the Republic
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... and the Fall of the Republic
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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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15 Facts About Genghis Khan & His Legacy
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Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
Another of my essays in French.
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Another of my essays in French.
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How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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Dreams of Space -...
Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
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I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
Lion Weekly was a magazine for children with comics and stories. (from Wikipedia...
African History...
A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
demystifying an ancient African society
a year ago
demystifying an ancient African society
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Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
a year ago
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
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Discover the Lost Culture of San Agustín in Colombia
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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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...
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“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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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History?
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What Is a Banana Republic?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved the Uxntal reference sheet and improved the Uxntal...
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
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We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
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The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
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Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
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The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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African History...
a brief note on African travel literature in history
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
7 months ago
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
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5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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The Performance is Over
Even if the artists don't realise it.
a year ago
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
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Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
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Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
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Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
a year ago
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
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Weekend Roundup
Plato Vs Aristotle
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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Hundred Rabbits
hello fujisan
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and...
over a year ago
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
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Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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Tate Modern Reopens Its 10th Floor Viewing Platform
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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Dreams of Space -...
Hombres Del Espacio (1960)
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
a year ago
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
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Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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Open Culture
Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019
It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not...
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It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not that it isn’t true for some of them, who tend to relegate themselves to smaller subgenres: consult Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music for a map of the sonic territory.) And it’s...
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
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Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
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5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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What is Objectivism? Ayn Rand’s Philosophy
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Three Cabins Left
Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
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Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
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The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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Patterns in Humanity
Does poverty cause violent crime?
An examination of the association between poverty and violent crime
7 months ago
An examination of the association between poverty and violent crime
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Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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Mon, 10/28/2024 -...
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Mon, 10/28/2024 - 10:04
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The Inuit and the Canadian Arctic: A Brief History
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in...
10 months ago
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
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The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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What Was Organization Todt?
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African History...
The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted...
5 months ago
The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted in one of the continent's longest-standing conflicts, which threatens to destroy the country's social fabric and its historical heritage. Just as the plight of modern Darfur...
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
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The Obligatory End-of-Year Essay.
But do me a favour, and read it anyway.
12 months ago
But do me a favour, and read it anyway.
TheCollector
Monet Haystack Painting Could Fetch $30 Million at Auction Next Month
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6 Incredible Roman Sites in Spain
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What is Virtue?
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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Should Drugs be Criminalized?
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
3 months ago
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
TheCollector
British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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Trying to Understand...
The Wages Of Fear
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
8 months ago
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
TheCollector
Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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The Mystery of the Mind
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The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
Classical Wisdom
Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
New Event: Taking place July 10th with Dr. Benjamin Olshin
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Alexander’s Destruction of Thebes in 335 BCE (Battle & Aftermath)
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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Michelangelo Scribble Sells For $200,000
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Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian
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Dreams of Space -...
Dream to Meet(1958)
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded...
a year ago
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
Lyapunov, B. Illustrated by Seleznev, E. Навстречу Мечте (Dream to Meet.)
Moscow: All-Union Educational Pedagogical...
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Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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African History...
Textile trade and Industry in the kingdom of Kongo: 1483-1914
the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
a year ago
the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
TheCollector
What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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What Is the Hill of the Buddha?
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Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
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‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded...
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History Today Feed
US President or American Caesar?
US President or American Caesar?
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Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
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US President or American Caesar?
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Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
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The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text...
8 months ago
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What Was Négritude?
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Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
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London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
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What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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Freak Shows: The Truth Behind Beauty and the Beast
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Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor
The Life and Work of Pheidias
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Interview with Dr. Mark Solms on Freud & Surrealism
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What Is Gnosticism?
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Pope Visits Venice Biennale For First Time
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
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TheCollector
How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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Classical Wisdom
What Government Governs Best?
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
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Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
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Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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Upcoming Events
So you're in the know...
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Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you...
8 months ago
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you take a photograph of someone they are immortalised, they’re there forever. For me that was important, that you’re acknowledging people’s lives, and also contextualising people’s...
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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...
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African History...
The complete history of Kano (999-1903)
journal of African cities chapter 9
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journal of African cities chapter 9
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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The Soldier with a Secret: Who Was Sarah Emma Edmonds?
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Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings?
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Should We Navel Gaze?
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
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The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
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Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
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Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
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Bronze Age Town Found in Saudi Arabian Desert
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Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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What Are the Books of the Old Testament? Order & Overview
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Who Was Gabriele D’Annunzio?
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Who Is the Mystery Mummy of Tomb KV55? (4 Theories)
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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Phillips 2023 Sales Dropped Down 15 Percent from 2022
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Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
The First Anglo-Burmese War
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Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
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How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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Who Was Julius Caesar?
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Climate Vandal Painted Words in Red Next to a Civil War Exhibit
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
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Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 4, 2023
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done...
a year ago
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done and some syllabi written before the semester begins in earnest later this week. Also before we dive in I want to note that it appears that Patreon has been having some trouble...
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Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a...
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When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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7 Prominent Photorealist Artists in the World Today
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Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
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Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines. A collection of his interviews, with the likes of Udo Kier, Divine, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Tura Satana, was published in the volume Dark Stars Rising: Conversations from the...
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
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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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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
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That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
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St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
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Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for the annual Society for Military History conference coming at the end of next week. In an...
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
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doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
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Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
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What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
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The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
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5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
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British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s. Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found...
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10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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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...
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
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For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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Hunter S Thompson Sets Fire To His Christmas Tree (1990)
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Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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What Is Thatcherism?
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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