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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
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Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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What Are the Books of the Old Testament? Order & Overview
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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Patterns in Humanity
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
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What Did Adorno Think of Beckett’s Endgame?
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Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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Amerigo Vespucci & The Naming of the Americas
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
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The Grand Egyptian Museum Soon Opens for Visitors
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The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
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What’s the Best Time to Visit the Colosseum?
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Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
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The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
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The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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13 English Words with Greek Origins
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The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
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The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
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Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
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What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
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The Great Fire of Smyrna
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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Ursa Major
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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4 Feminist Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi
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How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in England
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Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was...
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10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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Stoicism and Stress
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
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Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed.
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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Remedios Varo: A Female Surrealist Painter Who Isn’t Frida Kahlo
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Pera Palace: The Istanbul Muse for Literary Giants
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Parmigianino Altarpiece Back On View After 10-Year Conservation
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Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter...
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Silver Shields: Alexander the Great’s Legendary Elite Troops
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Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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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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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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Belgian Revolution: The Independence Movement That Surprised Europe
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A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
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Moscow: All-Union Educational Pedagogical...
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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A Collection of...
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Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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Do You Believe in Magic?
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Tattoos in the Bible: Can Christians Modify Their Bodies?
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What Is Berlin Science Week? Everything You Need to Know
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A Collection of...
Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
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This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
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Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
History Today Feed
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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Flashbak
Watch TV-CBGB – A Punk Sitcom From 1981
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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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Prometheus: The Titan Who Defied Zeus and Created Humanity
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10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
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African History...
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TheCollector
Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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The Electoral College Explained
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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TheCollector
Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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Patterns in Humanity
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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: Racism on a Federal Level
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR
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This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its...
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What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story
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History of Chariots: 10 Types from Ancient Cultures Explained
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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Francisco Goya’s Descent Into Madness: The Disturbing Black Paintings
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Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
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As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
uxn,...
History Today Feed
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
j.hoare
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‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
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TheCollector
Giorgio Agamben’s Notes on Dante’s Divine Comedy
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8 of the Greatest Fighter Planes of World War II
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
TheCollector
Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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TheCollector Interviews Artist Inna Levinson: From Paint to Pixels
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The Art of Collage and Assemblage in Modern Art
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African History...
The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted...
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The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted in one of the continent's longest-standing conflicts, which threatens to destroy the country's social fabric and its historical heritage. Just as the plight of modern Darfur...
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What Was the Warsaw Pact?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Grimgrains, published a tofu from soy flour recipe, and reduced...
Flashbak
Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes...
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“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes Stephen Harmon, a retired lawyer who first lived on New York City’s West End Avenue and 73rd street. “I am a photographer and set out to preserve it on film because I knew the...
TheCollector
Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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History Today Feed
‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:16
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‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:16
TheCollector
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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What Is the Will to Power?
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