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Hey folks! Year is coming to a close, so once again I’m going to offer a bit of an end-of-year...
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Hey folks! Year is coming to a close, so once again I’m going to offer a bit of an end-of-year reflection on the state of the project, along with a brief ‘what’s on the stove’ coverage of what may be coming up. Also, here’s a cat picture: In terms of the project itself, 2024 was,...
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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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.
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Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History
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Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
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Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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Putting Mothers on Death Row
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
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Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
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George Cassiday: Who Was the Man in the Green Hat?
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Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
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Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
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8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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Will the last young professional to leave Britain turn off the lights?
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A Fistful of Clockwork Oranges
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cape Town?
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What Are the Books of the Old Testament? Order & Overview
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Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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10 Historic Towns Near New York City to Visit
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Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
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Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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Classical Wisdom
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
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How Africans wrote their own history: Debates and dialogues between four west African historians in...
Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
a year ago
Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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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...
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December 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 December.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added solar cooking experiment, making seamed box cushions, making saloon cushions, moisture prevention underliner, and board games. Updated...
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5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
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Parmigianino Altarpiece Back On View After 10-Year Conservation
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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In their own...
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
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African History...
Seafaring, trade and travel in the African Atlantic. ca. 1100-1900.
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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TheCollector
Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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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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Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
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7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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Res Obscura
There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore)
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What Is Voguing?
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6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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A Collection of...
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This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the...
a year ago
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there...
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Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
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6 Famous Artists Who Loved Cats
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What Is the Didache?
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Classical Wisdom
The Essential Greeks
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British Museum Receives Its Most Valuable Gift Ever
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it...
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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Dr Alun Withey
Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing...
over a year ago
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing (published last week) about whether beards are finally ‘over’, and I thought it would be interesting to reflect on some of this. Since re-emerging around 2014, gaining popularity...
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Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
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Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
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Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the picture below of kids ‘tobogganing’ down a dry, rocky slope in the northern English city of Leeds in the 1970s “The Cresta Run”. It is not the original Cresta Run, which is a...
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Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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First Nations of the Canadian Subarctic: A Brief History
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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What Is the Hill of the Buddha?
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What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation?
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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
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France’s Long March Against Racism
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Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
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6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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What Makes a Celt & Did They Ever Inhabit Britannia?
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How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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Why Did the 1904 Olympic Marathon End in Disaster?
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Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
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Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
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Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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Fall of Berlin: How WWII Ended in Europe
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The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda?
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Brushing for Britain
Brushing for Britain
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Where parents make a difference
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Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
Classical Wisdom
Xerxes the Great
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Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
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Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
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Cold Snapshots – Vintage Holiday Fun in the Snow and Ice
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection...
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If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection of images. A dip into Robert E. Jackson’s sublime collection of snapshots never disappoints. And when you’ve seen the cards, you should enjoy his pictures of revellers rocking...
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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