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Inventing Cyrillic
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Franz von Stuck: German Symbolist Painter & “Prince of Art”
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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where is the turtle farm
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Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the market, or of the company to be found here, but just of having that same view every morning. We love this city, but when it's time to go, it's time to go!
We left our mooring at...
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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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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Putting Mothers on Death Row
Putting Mothers on Death Row
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This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the performance of the Roman army and its legions in the third and second century BC against the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we sought to assess some of...
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7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
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7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
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The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
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To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
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Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
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To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
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How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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6 Politicians & World Leaders Who Are Artists
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American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
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travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
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Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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Britons Caught in the French Revolution
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
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What Was Organization Todt?
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Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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5 Influential African Leaders of the 20th Century
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No End Of A Lesson.
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Why Did Rome Fall?
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& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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‘Ain Ghazal: One of the Oldest Places in Human Civilization
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Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
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With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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