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Flashbak
Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
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History Today Feed
Arguing with the Dead
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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
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Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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Cronus: The Titan Leader in Greek Mythology
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
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What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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Was Walt Whitman a Transcendentalist?
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What Is the Role of First Ladies in US Elections?
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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Who Were the Legendary Mountain Men of the Old West?
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
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Why Is Joan of Arc a Feminist Icon in Modern Times?
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Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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Dreams of Space -...
Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
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a brief note on the long history of African diplomacy.
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
5 months ago
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900.
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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Flashbak
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In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay and the New Jaywalkers and Ike & Tina Turner. Formed in 1962, The Stones had their first number one in ‘64 and in 1966 had released what was to be their breakthrough album an...
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Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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Hidden History
The Last Day of World War One
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International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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Res Obscura
Centuries of Childhood
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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Patterns in Humanity
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The Wages Of Fear
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Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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History Today Feed
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
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Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
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Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
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How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
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Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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Dreams of Space -...
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a year ago
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Classical Wisdom
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
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African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
7 months ago
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10 Must-See Historic Landmarks in Florida
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How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
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Lost and Found
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TheCollector
Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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The Great Fire of Smyrna
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Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
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Flashbak
1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
9 months ago
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Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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TheCollector
5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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Flashbak
Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
7 months ago
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Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2024
Hey everyone!
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What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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African History...
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State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
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TheCollector
What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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Classical Wisdom
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Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
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6 Politicians & World Leaders Who Are Artists
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12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God
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5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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Who Were the Maccabees?
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Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
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Classical Wisdom
Seamus Heaney
A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
weird medieval guys
An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns
Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
a year ago
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
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TheCollector
19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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Why Read Modern Books?
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
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10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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A Collection of...
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What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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Flashbak
A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and...
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Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:46
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TheCollector
What Are the 8 Best Art Attractions in Budapest? (local tips)
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Trying to Understand...
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What's it going to be, then?
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How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the...
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Classical Wisdom
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Julius Caesar
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TheCollector
6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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Who Was the Fifth Beatle?
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Flashbak
Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was...
9 months ago
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12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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Who Is the Most Famous Centaur?
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Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those...
10 months ago
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American polarisation
The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
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Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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Who Was Averroes?
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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)
TheCollector
History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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Classical Wisdom
Religion in the Olympics
The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
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The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
TheCollector
The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
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What Are the Five French Republics?
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Flashbak
Roadside Relics of the USSR
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer...
2 months ago
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer Jason Guilbeau whose pointing out objects along the roadside, like tractors stuck atop poles, a pavement that turns into a jet’s trail, a tank on a plinth and more reminders of...
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Inventing Cyrillic
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Lower Manhattan in 1973
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Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
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La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique.
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
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Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
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Ancient Marble Floor Restored Underwater in Italy
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Sri Lanka’s Top 6 Must-See Historic Sites
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
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This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
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Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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