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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
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How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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Overcoming Bias
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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goji no chaimu
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over a year ago
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over a year ago
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Many of the...
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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US President or American Caesar?
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There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
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is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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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
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April.
Summary Of Changes
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Hundred Rabbits
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over a year ago
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What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
5 months ago
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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Free French Bombers Over France
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Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
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...and the feared Persian Army
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...and the feared Persian Army
Hundred Rabbits
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
over a year ago
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
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What is needed to stop violent cycles?
a year ago
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7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
a year ago
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
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Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
a year ago
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This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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Who Was Frantz Fanon?
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Flashbak
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New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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History Today Feed
Brushing for Britain
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Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
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TheCollector
Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ Targeted Again After Protestors Jailed
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Trying to Understand...
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Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
8 months ago
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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What Is the History and Significance of May Day?
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10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners,...
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One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
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Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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Lucian Freud Nude to Make $20 Million Auction Debut
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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Will There Be “Crazy” People?
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What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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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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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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Cimabue Fresco Restored to its Original Glory
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How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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5 Famous Black Mexicans
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a brief note on the Intellectual history of Africa
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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Get to Know Alma Mahler: Composer, Muse, and Scandalous Woman
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and...
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6 Inventions to Thank the Aztec, Maya, & Inca For
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
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Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for Disney, for whom he contributed many story sketches and illustrations, not least the nightmarish, eerie and delicate Bald Mountain scenes for the animated movie Fantasia (1940). But...
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Interview with Nicolas Party: Pastels, Rosalba Carriera, & More
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Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
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What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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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 Won the Battle of Nashville?
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3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story
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A history of the Loango kingdom (ca.1500-1883) : Power, Ivory and Art in west-central Africa.
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Sri Lanka’s Top 6 Must-See Historic Sites
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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“I Have a Dream”: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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No Way Out
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The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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The Swazi kingdom and its neighbours in the 19th century: from the rise of Zulu to the British
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Margaret Mead, Technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
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In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange bucket. He’s wearing dirty jeans and a grey hoodie. The guy’s in his seventies. Weather-worn. Grizzled beard. Walking stick. Back trouble caused by “old spinal injuries and bad...
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5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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Are Propaganda and Politics Inevitable Bedfellows?
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces
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Should We Follow Silly Laws?
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Christie’s to Auction $30 Million Basquiat Stretcher-Bar Painting
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History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids?
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Dreams of Space -...
Cosmonaut-2 (1964)
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely...
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Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961.
Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
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Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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Bob Ross’s First Completed Work Is Up for Sale for $9.85 M.
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New Acquisitions: 1933 and the Definition of Fascism
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Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if Donald Trump is running for President as a fascist. Worry not, this isn’t me shifting to full-time political pundit, nor is this the formal end of the hiatus (which will happen on...
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Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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Ancient Atomists
The Origins of Oppenheimer?
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Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.
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It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
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Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
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Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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History and Myth
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Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
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We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
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What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China?
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10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
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This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
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Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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Have A Weird Christmas With Our Album Of Vintage Photo Oddities
There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E....
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There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E. Jackson’s phenomenal collection of snapshots we see all kinds of unusual goings on. One Christmas card features a photo of the sender covered in rats; on another a man canoodles a...
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What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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How to Save Democracy
The Importance of the Civic Bargain
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Johnny Cash: A Bio of Country Ballads & Boisterous Song
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The History and Beauty of the Moscow Metro
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What Language Did the Ancient Romans Speak?
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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What is Pantheism in Art?
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Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other...
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Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
AND October 1, 2012...
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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Neanderthal Nonsense: Debunking Myths About Our Ancient Cousins
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Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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What Is the History of the Hudson’s Bay Company?
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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So They Want Negotiations, Now.
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
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Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
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Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
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10 Historic Christmas Towns in the US to Visit
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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Frank Stewart’s Portraits of The American Journey – A Story of Jazz And Justice
“Just how somebody in photographs can treat black people with dignity. That I’d never seen before” –...
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