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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible?
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Nixtamalization: How Ancient Americans Bio-Engineered Corn
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a brief note on themes in African art.
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Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
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Thefts From Heritage Sites in the U.K. Are Rising
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
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Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
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8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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Animals of the Ancient World
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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The Third World War Has Been Cancelled.
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What Are the Recurring Symbols in Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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Oops! I did it again...
Getting our events straight...
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
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Why Is Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?
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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
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A Strange Defeat.
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How Did the Seasons Get Their Names?
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8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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Summary of changes for January 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
11 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added galley refit, updated lifelines, seamed box cushions, and moisture prevention underliner.
Permacomputing, revamped the page.
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Flashbak
Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
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Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
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How Can We Love Ourselves?
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What Is Voguing?
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Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
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10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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Who was Rasputin and Why is He Famous?
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Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
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L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
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Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
A re-run--
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Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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the promise of pancakes
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The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
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When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
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Summary of changes for November
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over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
Donsol, designed a donsol turnip.
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Ben Franklin in Politics: The Founding Father Who Was Never President
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a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added electrical refit(portal for AC & DC...
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What Is the History of Halloween?
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A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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Rediscovered Quentin Metsys Madonna Heads to Auction
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A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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What Is an Antipope?
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Wrong Side of...
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Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ Is Stolen, Then Recovered
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
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Calling Time on BC and AD
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Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
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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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An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
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The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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Dreams of Space -...
Man-Made Moons (1960)
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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Why Should We Care About Children?
Bringing History to the Future
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The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons
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Belgium’s Collectible Design Fair Debuts in NYC
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The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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Euripides
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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Sacrificial Violence and Retribution
In the following analysis, we explore the responses to two different extrajudicial killings as a way...
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Have We Become Anti-Human?
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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIa: How a Legion Fights
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second...
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This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander and the Roman legions. Last time, we looked at the Hellenistic army as a complete system, incorporating...
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Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
Some people never grow up.
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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
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“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
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Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
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Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Insects’ Christmas, above. In addition to offering brief respite from the chaos of consumerism and modern expectations, this...
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Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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Vatican Museums Open Ancient Roman Necropolis
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Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
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How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
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How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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What Is Conceptual Photography?
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter ...
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‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous events to come out of the First World War. Some have called it the last gasp of the chivalric age of professional militaries and gentlemen officers, to be followed by the full horrors...
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The Enigmatic Archeology of Chichen Itza: A World Wonder
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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A Video Interview with Luis Royo: TheCollector Chats with Fantasy Artist
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Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
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4 Feminist Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi
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Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s 100 Club. Recently moved to London from Manchester, Constantine knew the scene well, having danced at all-nighters a decade earlier. At first, things seemed different. The crowd...
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Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
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“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
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Oskar Schindler: The Business Tycoon Who Became a Hero
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A Collection of...
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This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman Republic, particularly the governing institutions of the Middle Republic, the period of the republic’s height from c. 287-100 BC. Last time we discussed the component parts and nature of...
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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