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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
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In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
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How did Mao Lead China, and What did He Leave Behind?
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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Classical Wisdom
Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
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8 of the Greatest Fighter Planes of World War II
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Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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TheCollector
Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
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Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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Patterns in Humanity
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Hunter S Thompson Sets Fire To His Christmas Tree (1990)
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The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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A Collection of...
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Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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10 Historic Small Towns in Florida for Your Bucket List
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Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
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Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
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TheCollector
What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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Dreams of Space -...
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Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
over a year ago
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August) issue had a number of space related articles including: Will Your Child Visit The Moon? The article makes the case to the mothers of America that travel into space and the Moon is...
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8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
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French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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How Did Socrates Die?
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“I Am Because We Are”: Introducing Ubuntu Philosophy
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A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
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What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy?
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Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you...
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Who Won the Second Battle of Bull Run?
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Was Walt Whitman a Transcendentalist?
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African History...
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What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
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The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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Global Inequality...
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Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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Maccabean Revolt: How the Maccabees Beat the Seleucids
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Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
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Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation...
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Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
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Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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Dreams of Space -...
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The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
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The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
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Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
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What Is Conceptual Photography?
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Overcoming Bias
Beware Value Dashboards
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
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Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
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Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
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Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
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Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
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This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
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10 Forgotten US Presidents
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A Collection of...
Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
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This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
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What Can You Do When You Don't Have A Culture?
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10 Myths About the Greek Goddess Athena
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7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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A Clash Of Symbols
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What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
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4 Feminist Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
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You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain – America, A Horse With No Name We don’t know where British … Continue reading "American...
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Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
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The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
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Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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What Was Jim Crow?
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Cecilia Beaux: Esteemed American Portraitist
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Papa To The Rescue.
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Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
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Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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African History...
a brief note on European pirates and African states during the 'golden age of piracy.'
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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A Brief History of Mount Everest
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Dreams of Space -...
Happy Journeys (1961)
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
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How Did the Tudors Celebrate Christmas?
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Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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What Are the Strengths of Determinism?
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How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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When Did the Korean War Start?
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How Did the Islamic Golden Age Shape Knowledge and Discovery?
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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René Descartes’ Legacy: The Persistence of Mind-Body Dualism
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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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