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Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
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9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam
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“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
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When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
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Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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Dreams of Space -...
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Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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What Is Anxiety to Soren Kierkegaard?
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving?
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The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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Should We Navel Gaze?
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6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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How Has the Tower of London Changed Over Time?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
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What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
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8 Must-See Highlights From London’s Soane Museum
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
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Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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Cars of Britain in the 1970s
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In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
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Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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Why Bother Being Good? A Philosophical Exploration of Morality
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Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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No Left Turn
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Workers and Peasants we are not.
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Louis XIV: History’s Longest-Reigning Monarch
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Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
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Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
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Cultural Scenario Probabilities
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On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative likelihood, desirability, and ease of influence.
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
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plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
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Was Walt Whitman a Transcendentalist?
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Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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Beware Policy Abstraction
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Free Will Vs Determinism
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
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Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
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Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
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