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What Is Solipsism?
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Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids?
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Get to Know Palazzo Doria Pamphilj & Its Fascinating History
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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Fall of Berlin: How WWII Ended in Europe
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What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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The Indigenous Architecture of the Cosmos in the Amazon
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A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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Why is medieval art so weird?
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Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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Who Is Kiki Smith?
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Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
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Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an Alice Thr0ugh The Looking Glass are so much about the food. Little surprise then to discover The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook: A Culinary Diversion by John Fisher, first published...
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Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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What Were the Major Battles and Conflicts of the Medieval Period?
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