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A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
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Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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NY Denny Gallery Shuts Down After Ten Years
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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Trying to Understand...
Out Of Control.
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
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Fear the worst, hope for the best.
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit the Pyramids?
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Dr Alun Withey
The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners,...
over a year ago
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
TheCollector
Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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History Today Feed
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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TheCollector
Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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Flashbak
Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
a year ago
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army
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Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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Patterns in Humanity
Global crime
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
3 weeks ago
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
Flashbak
American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles...
7 months ago
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House?
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Basil Zaharoff: How to Play Both Sides, Sell Weapons and Get Rich
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New British Museum Book Brings Egyptian Pharaohs to Life
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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For the Love of the Classics
Valentine's Gifts
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TheCollector
Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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African History...
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.
TheCollector
What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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Slavoj Zizek on the 2 Types of Violence
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Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide in the United States: a summary
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
a month ago
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
TheCollector
Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites
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Flashbak
Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration,...
5 months ago
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from 1875-1925, writes Albert Seligman. His luxurious Gift Books of the early 20th century were covered in vellum and issued in signed limited editions with tipped-in color...
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Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death
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What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa)...
8 months ago
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Was Alexander Great?
3 months ago
TheCollector
End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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Classical Wisdom
[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
a year ago
Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
Flashbak
The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
9 months ago
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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Where Are the Best Travel Destinations for Shakespeare Fans?
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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TheCollector
The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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Trying to Understand...
Service to what nation?
Why people should stop talking about conscription.
5 months ago
Why people should stop talking about conscription.
Open Culture
What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre,...
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Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it’s claimed)...
TheCollector
6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know
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First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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Exploring the Troubles in Belfast and Derry (Monuments & History)
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Egypt’s Giza Restoration Bid Faces Backlash From Archaeologists
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Mount Toba: Did a Supervolcano Almost Wipe Out the Human Species?
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Who Are the Ku Klux Klan?
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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Classical Wisdom
Origins of Latin Literature
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
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...and the Master of Roman Comedy
Classical Wisdom
St. Nicholas
The Saint behind Santa
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TheCollector
6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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Trying to Understand...
A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
a year ago
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
Hidden History
The Last Day of World War One
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
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At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
TheCollector
Lost Caravaggio Painting Unveiled at the Prado
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TheCollector
Serop Simonian Art Dealer Arrested by German Polica
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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TheCollector
4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian
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Open Culture
Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music...
a week ago
Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
TheCollector
8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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African History...
Kingdoms at the forest's edge: a history of Mangbetu (ca. 1750-1895)
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has...
7 months ago
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has a long and complex history shaped by its internal cultural developments and its unique ecology between the savannah and the forest. Among the most remarkable states that emerged in...
TheCollector
Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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History Today Feed
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Olympics Special
4 months ago
TheCollector
An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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Flashbak
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...
12 months ago
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...
TheCollector
The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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Patterns in Humanity
Racial Homicide Disparities Since 1910
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
a year ago
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the evolution of black-white homicide disparities in the United States since the early 20th century.
Res Obscura
Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
a year ago
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
TheCollector
Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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Flashbak
Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
10 months ago
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
Res Obscura
I talked to Terry Gross!
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled...
11 months ago
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled posting
History Today Feed
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
j.hoare
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
j.hoare
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
TheCollector
How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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The Sand Creek Massacre: A Horrific Tale of Betrayal & Greed
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Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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Who Was the Real Mona Lisa?
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History Today Feed
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
a year ago
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
TheCollector
Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
TheCollector
Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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Wrong Side of...
The War on the Countryside
The Shire must be brought to heel
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The Shire must be brought to heel
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Manhattan Noir: John Fensten’s Photographs of New York City in the 1980s
John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio...
2 months ago
John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio with Lee and Susan Strasberg in the late 1950s, early 1960s. He appeared on the critically acclaimed CBS television anthology drama series Playhouse 90. And was a longtime resident...
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‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange...
7 months ago
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange bucket. He’s wearing dirty jeans and a grey hoodie. The guy’s in his seventies. Weather-worn. Grizzled beard. Walking stick. Back trouble caused by “old spinal injuries and bad...
TheCollector
Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
11 months ago
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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7 Key Beliefs and Practices From Hasidic Judaism
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August
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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
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Essential Greeks LIVE Webinar Times
Join this year's course for a strong foundation in the Classics
6 months ago
Join this year's course for a strong foundation in the Classics
TheCollector
What Are the Key Influences That Shaped the French New Wave?
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Trying to Understand...
Getting Used To Being Weak.
It's worse than you probably imagine.
a year ago
It's worse than you probably imagine.
TheCollector
How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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History Today Feed
‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/11/2024 - 07:00
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/11/2024 - 07:00
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