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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
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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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Hidden Figure Identified in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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We left our mooring at...
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A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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What is the Eye of Ra?
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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Overcoming Bias
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
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As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most likely die in the end. In the final instalment of the four-strong Joe and Petunia series, the British couple illustrate the dangers driving on bad tyres by driving into a tree. ...
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10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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Blindspots and Biographies
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American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington
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The Roman Socrates
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Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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Art Basel Miami Beach Opens 2024 Fair
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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Festivals of Resistance : A Call for Gatherings the Weekend Before Trump Takes Office
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
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Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
Overcoming Bias
Our Authoritarian Default
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Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently puzzling to justify more careful study.
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Caligula's Forgotten Legacy
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Classical Wisdom
LIVE Event: What is Plagiarism?
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Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration
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Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by German-American-French artist and founder of the Dada movement Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976). The book, which marks the beginning of his close friendship with French poet Paul...
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What Are the Origins of Santa Claus?
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10 Must-Visit Utah Ghost Towns With a Rich History
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5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
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In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue
This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look...
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This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look at how the Roman legions were able to overcome the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and second centuries BC. We have covered the decisive battles in the story, although...
Classical Wisdom
Empedocles
The Philosopher God?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of...
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This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of Hellenistic warfare and the triumph of the Roman legion. Our core question is a really common one: why was the Roman legion able to decisively defeat the Hellenistic...
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George Washington’s The Revolutionary War Letter on Sale
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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A Collection of...
Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
a year ago
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
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Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
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One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
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The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
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First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text book made from tempera and gold leaf on parchment. Shelf marked Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 0457, the work is a Latin translation of Avicenna’s Canon medicinae, one of...
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What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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Art of the Etruscans
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6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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Flashbak
Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American...
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“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
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What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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African History...
A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of...
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The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
A Collection of...
Collections: The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear
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This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron Age Mediterranean (focusing on the period from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC): the humble, effective and ubiquitous thrusting spear. In particular, I want to discuss the striking...
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7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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Classical Wisdom
Oops! I did it again...
Getting our events straight...
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Getting our events straight...
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
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Flashbak
The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February...
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Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998) was known to his fans as Orion. To others he was Elvis Presley. Ellis appeared with many artists, including Loretta Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy...
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from...
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from Japan. It’s a subject we’ve visited before with the Yokai Horrors from the 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll. Thought to originate in the mid 1800s, the artist behind the Kaikidan...
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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
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In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a mini-portfolio of 12 postcards. Eight are by Huja, plus four in colour by Neil Winokur and a sleeve by Ken Tisa. The postcards for maverick boutique owner Dianne Benson are lovely...
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What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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Trying to Understand...
Things Are Falling Apart ...
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
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And the centre's not looking too good, either.
TheCollector
10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
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Again. In a manner of speaking.
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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Wrong Side of...
The case for a Global Sanctuary City
What if the Syrians can’t return home?
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What if the Syrians can’t return home?
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Somerset
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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TheCollector
Principality of Sealand: The Smallest Nation in the World?
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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Putting Pirates on Trial
Putting Pirates on Trial
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
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Putting Pirates on Trial
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
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Pace Gallery to Represent Paul Thek Estate
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Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
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TheCollector
Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome?
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Who Were the Toughest Women in the Old West?
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The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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Who Was Vernon Lee?
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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11 Amazing Rooms & Artworks in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj
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7 Wars That Nearly Happened (But Didn’t)
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Trying to Understand...
Let's Hear It For The "Underlying Causes."
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Here's the answer. What was the question again?
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What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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African History...
a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa.
a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
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a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
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7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
TheCollector
The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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Trying to Understand...
Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.
You don't need to know that.
9 months ago
You don't need to know that.
Flashbak
Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
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The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
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Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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Brussels Statue Supposedly Damaged by Irish Tourist
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Love Ourselves?
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
10 months ago
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
Trying to Understand...
Out Of Control.
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
2 months ago
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
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Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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History Today Feed
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
TheCollector
Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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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)
11 months ago
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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Who Were the Disciples James, John and Andrew?
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