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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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Bringing It All Back Home
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If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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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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Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
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Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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Ancient Marble Zeus Head Unearthed in Türkiye
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6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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The Death of Clive of India
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Useless in Gaza
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
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As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific...
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In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
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Encaustic Painting: An Ancient Art Form Explained
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The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France
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What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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What Is the History of the Hudson’s Bay Company?
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Everything is (Somewhat) Connected.
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But some things are more connected than others.
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V),...
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This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
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William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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What Are the Top 7 Must-See Attractions in Mallorca?
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
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In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
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Who Were the Kuomintang?
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Who You Are Vs. What You Control
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other...
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If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
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A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000...
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In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000 employees lost their jobs. And another part of old New York went the way of the Automat and the Times Square peep show. The New York State Legislature enacted its first off-track betting...
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An episode of Naval warfare on the East African coast: the Sakalava invasions of 1792-1817
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
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Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which...
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So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which people will get individual jet-powered wings to fly. It is set a little like a fantasy and a little like a dream. It has "perfect" 1950s illustrations about how the future might...
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The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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The Electoral College Explained
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language
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New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
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This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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Overcoming Bias
Hail Jeffrey Wernick
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional...
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Games Nations Play.
But they forget the people and the Street.
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But they forget the people and the Street.
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The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a...
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In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a project to document New York City’s rich history of architecture and fashion. Cunningham dressed his friend and fellow photographer Editta Sherman (July 9, 1912 – November 1, 2013)...
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Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
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Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
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How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was...
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”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel’s new blood. Jean Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.” — Andy Warhol’s longtime studio...
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day
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Can you REALLY be offended on behalf of someone else??
Lessons from Borat
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Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
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Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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Before the police arrives: Bookstores on Saturdays
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I...
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I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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Archaeologists Find Colorful Still Life Frescoes at Pompeii
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What Is the Will to Power?
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Famous Architects Dress as Their Famous New York City Buildings (1931)
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On January 13, 1931, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects held a ball at the Hotel Astor in New York City. According to an advertisement for the event, anyone who paid $15 per ticket (big money during the Depression) could see a “hilarious modern art exhibition” and things...
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5 Women in Logic You Should Know
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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Patterns in Humanity
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Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
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How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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Anti-slavery laws and Abolitionist thought in pre-colonial Africa
the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
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the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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Princess Diana ‘Black Sheep’ Jumper Sold for $1.1 M.
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10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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Should Drugs be Criminalized?
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
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Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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Artist Frank Auerbach Dies at 93
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Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
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“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
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Death of a Turkey Legend
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The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
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For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
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Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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Who Won the Battle of Nashville?
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What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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St. Nicholas
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How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)
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Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
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A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to take advantage of the excitement about this launch. So they had to include a booklet to explain why this slightly inaccurate model was so special. Imagine opening the model kit...
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Nature Aided in the Creation of the Great Sphinx of Giza?
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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Hume on Personal Identity: Who Are We?
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What’s the History of Gin?
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7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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How Did Religion Influence Law in the Ottoman Empire?
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a brief note on Africa in 16th century global history.
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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Philosophy and Children
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5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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Changing Seasons
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New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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