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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
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Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
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Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
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Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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UNESCO Creates a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
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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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A history of the Rozvi kingdom (1680-1830)
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
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5 Military Geniuses From History
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
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Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
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Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist
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What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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6 Micronations You Should Know
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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.”...
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“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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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
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Brushing for Britain
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...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
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In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
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Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
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Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
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In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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African History...
a brief note on new discoveries in African archeology and the stone ruins of Cameroon.
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription...
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Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription that describes a trading expedition to an unspecified region called the land of Punt. Egyptologists had long debated about the location of this mysterious territory before recent...
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part II: Romans, Assemble!
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
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Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
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a brief note on African travel literature in history
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
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a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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History Today Feed
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
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Dreams of Space -...
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How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)
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Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part II
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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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What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
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What Is the History and Significance of May Day?
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So They Want Negotiations, Now.
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Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no...
11 months ago
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no point in trying to achieve anything else in life. As he put it: “If it’s not fun, there’s no point!” A new book of his conceptual photographs illustrates the point. Above, you can see...
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5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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Interview with Dr. Mark Solms on Freud & Surrealism
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
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At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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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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We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
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Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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9 Interesting Facts about Medusa
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Who Is the Real Banksy? Rumors Behind the Street Artist
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Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps
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What Is Hagia Sophia & Who Built It?
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
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‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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Sparta and… Scotland?
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Laconic wit through the centuries
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Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
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Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat. “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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Patterns in Humanity
Crime in the USA
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A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
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Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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Mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait Sells for $32 Million
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Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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The Life of Terence
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5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
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How French Was Medieval England?
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Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
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Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
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7 Most Impressive Villas and Palaces to Visit in Rome
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6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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Beware the Lides of March
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The American Patriot War: “The Americans Are Coming!”
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7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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What is the Soul?
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Who Was the Real Mona Lisa?
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Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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