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A History of the United States Senate
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What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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Does FIRST Matter Most?
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The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
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5 Illustrated Stories by Shaun Tan That You Should Know
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5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
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In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
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Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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Hundred Rabbits
tools ecosystem
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In...
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How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In 2016, we left Canada, armed with our two iPhones and 2 MacBooks Pros. We didn't know the wattage of any of the devices we owned, and even less about the amount of solar needed to...
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Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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Res Obscura
When technology follows art
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the...
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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What Are the Books of the Old Testament? Order & Overview
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
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Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
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Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
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What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
a year ago
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
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Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia?
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Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
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What Are the Scientific Roots of Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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Trying to Understand...
Service to what nation?
Why people should stop talking about conscription.
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Why people should stop talking about conscription.
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Here’s How AI Completed Keith Haring’s Work
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Xerxes the Great
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Who Was Gabriele D’Annunzio?
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
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Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Denmark
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4 months ago
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
TheCollector
6 Outrageous Whaling Stories
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Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
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Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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Flashbak
Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the...
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History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take
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Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King
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When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us...
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Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
African History...
a brief note on the long history of African diplomacy.
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
5 months ago
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
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Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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Hundred Rabbits
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For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
over a year ago
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
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Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
On the Spot: Levi Roach
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Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
10 months ago
On the Spot: Levi Roach
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
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Musée Rodin to Launch Shanghai Outpost in September
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New Alphonse Mucha Museum to Open in Prague
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What Is the History of Constitution Day in the US?
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The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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Flashbak
Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
11 months ago
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
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What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s...
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This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the...
History Today Feed
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
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Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
6 months ago
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
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Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Philosophy and Children
Event: THIS Saturday
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5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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Classical Wisdom
The Mystery of Morpheus
Who is the God of Dreams?
a year ago
Who is the God of Dreams?
Flashbak
26 Found Photos of Australian Life In the 1970s
The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry...
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The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry Humphries (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) created Sir Les Patterson and made him Australia’s cultural ambassador. Drunk, lecherous and offensive, after Sir Les made his debut...
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Arguing with the Dead
Arguing with the Dead
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
10 months ago
Arguing with the Dead
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
TheCollector
Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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African History...
**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history
plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
a year ago
plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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The Prophecies of Merlin
The Prophecies of Merlin
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
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The Prophecies of Merlin
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
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The Mystery of Crazy Horse: His Life & Legacy
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also...
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‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also refers to my relationship to my country.’ — Harry Gruyaert Harry Gruyaert’s photographs show his preference for shooting in the street, where he can capture the unexpected, most...
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in...
10 months ago
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
3 weeks ago
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
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4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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Classical Wisdom
The Many Roads to Rome
The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
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The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
over a year ago
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
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Ancient Marble Floor Restored Underwater in Italy
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Flashbak
In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the...
7 months ago
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In Your Face. Like Mark...
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
TheCollector
5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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Dreams of Space -...
Hombres Del Espacio (1960)
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
a year ago
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
African History...
A history of the Loango kingdom (ca.1500-1883) : Power, Ivory and Art in west-central Africa.
Africa's past carved in ivory
a year ago
Africa's past carved in ivory
TheCollector
Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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Classical Wisdom
The Two Trojan Wars
Secret Origins
a year ago
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Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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Overcoming Bias
The Two Big Games
Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities...
2 weeks ago
Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities about it.
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Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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Trying to Understand...
Books To Help Us Understand The World?
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
a year ago
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
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What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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Shocking Scandals: 10 of the Most Controversial US Elections
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
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History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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Classical Wisdom
The Life of Terence
Slave turned Playwright
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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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
6 months ago
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
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Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China
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Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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