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Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
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5 Quotes by Sartre Explained: What These Words Mean for Us Today
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art
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Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know
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Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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When Was the First U.S. Presidential Election?
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a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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Street Artist JR Installs Optical Illusion at Milan Train Station
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War Is Complicated.
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And not just the fighting bit.
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a brief note on the long history of African diplomacy.
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historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
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6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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A complete history of Madagascar and the island kingdom of Merina.
State and society on Africa's largest island.
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State and society on Africa's largest island.
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Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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A History of the United States Senate
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Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
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“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
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Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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Why is medieval art so weird?
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran...
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Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
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I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
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Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he...
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Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the...
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A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off...
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On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
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Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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The Soldier with a Secret: Who Was Sarah Emma Edmonds?
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5 Strange Election Systems Around the World
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Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
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In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician....
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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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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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When Did the Korean War Start?
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Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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One, Two (1965)
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
a year ago
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
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How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom...
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For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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The Value of Wills to Historians
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History)
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Summary of changes for April 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
7 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Twilight, updated our notes on chainplates, wheel to tiller conversion, cabin lights standing rigging replacement, Princess Louisa Inlet(added...
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Stop Making Sense.
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There are no "why"s in our world.
Global Inequality...
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10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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projects and pain
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
over a year ago
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.
'If we can't...
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Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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Summary of changes for October
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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,...
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Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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‘Spiral Jetty’ Added to National Register of Historic Places
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6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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Will The West Eat Itself?
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
a year ago
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
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Who Was Geoffrey of Monmouth? The Man Who Made Arthur and Merlin
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10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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Secret of the Stoics
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Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it...
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“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it is 4pm in dear old England and it is carelessness of this kind that makes my eyes steel slits of blue. – Letter to James Bond author Ian Fleming Many … Continue reading "Dear...
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What Is the History of Constitution Day in the US?
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Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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10 Must-See Archaeological Sites in the US
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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Who was Rasputin and Why is He Famous?
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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...
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in...
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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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a brief note on the history of indigenous and foreign religions in African history, and the Kimpasi...
The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various...
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The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various denominations, with a relatively small fraction adhering to other belief systems often referred to as 'indigenous' or 'traditional' religions.
Overcoming Bias
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Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently...
2 months ago
Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently puzzling to justify more careful study.
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Who Are the Ku Klux Klan?
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Trying to Understand...
A Week Off And A New Language
See you again soon
a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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Who Am I, Really? A Philosophical Quest for Self-Discovery
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Get to Know Palazzo Doria Pamphilj & Its Fascinating History
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What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
10 months ago
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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The coolest medieval woman you've never heard of
Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
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Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
African History...
State and society in southern Ethiopia: the Oromo kingdom of Jimma (ca. 1830-1932)
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its...
10 months ago
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its history and contribution to the country's cultural heritage. While Ethiopian historiography is often focused on the historical developments in the northern regions of the country, some...
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Anglo-Saxon England’s Last 50 Years: A True Game of Thrones
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Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
2 months ago
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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Helter Skelter: Who Was Charles Manson?
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The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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A Collection of...
Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
a year ago
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...