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Flashbak
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Wrong Side of...
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We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
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We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
TheCollector
Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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Dreams of Space -...
Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
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I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
Lion Weekly was a magazine for children with comics and stories. (from Wikipedia...
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Here’s What to Know About the History of Lake Como’s World-Famous Villa
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What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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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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“Just how somebody in photographs can treat black people with dignity. That I’d never seen before” – Frank Stewart Frank Stewart (born 1949) was 14 when he took his trained his Kodak Brownie on the March on Washington for Jobs in Freedom, otherwise known as the Great March in...
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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Secrets of the Sirens
The Original Femme Fatales?
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The Original Femme Fatales?
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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weird medieval guys
What does a biblically accurate angel actually look like?
Sexy? Scary? Both?
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weird medieval guys
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
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Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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Tate Modern Reopens Its 10th Floor Viewing Platform
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How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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Overcoming Bias
Hail Jeffrey Wernick
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional...
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I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional markets to make org decisions.
Dreams of Space -...
Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there...
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After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there are not a lot of illustrations of space flight this book was very important to me at the time. I remember finding it in the school library and then getting my own paperback copy...
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
Flashbak
A Look at London in 1975 with English Eccentrics and Mr Whippy
It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by...
7 months ago
It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by shopping for a Mr Whippy ice cream on Gypsy Hill, south of the River Thames. Or maybe a cider or Brandy Alexander lolly is more to your taste? You can see the full range of British...
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What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments)
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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Trying to Understand...
The Water Is Rising.
But slowly ...
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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Overcoming Bias
The Two Big Games
Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities...
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Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities about it.
TheCollector
How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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Wrong Side of...
The Indian-American century
On the Anglo-Indo-sphere
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Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements
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Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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Flashbak
The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In...
11 months ago
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In 1976, nine-year-old Amy Carter left her home in Plains, Georgia, and moved into the White House. People noticed the first child to live at the White House since the days of JFK. And...
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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10 Zany Facts About Benjamin Franklin You Probably Didn’t Know
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Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
5 months ago
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
TheCollector
The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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Where Did Paul Cezanne Live?
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Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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Where Are the Best Travel Destinations for Shakespeare Fans?
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African History...
Africa and Europe during the age of mutual exploration: a Swahili traveler's description of 19th...
The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on...
3 months ago
The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on a global scale in which African travelers were active agents.
Flashbak
Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
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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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Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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Aristotle on Knowledge, Truth, and Error (6 Arguments)
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Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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Flashbak
Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
3 months ago
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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Italian Artist Unveils Contemporary Version of Stolen Caravaggio
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Flashbak
Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American...
2 months ago
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
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Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Auctioned for $6 Million
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How Did Religion Influence Law in the Ottoman Empire?
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Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early...
9 months ago
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
Flashbak
Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of...
7 months ago
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
Res Obscura
Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude
At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
a year ago
At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
Open Culture
John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The...
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Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
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Roadside Relics of the USSR
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer...
2 months ago
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer Jason Guilbeau whose pointing out objects along the roadside, like tractors stuck atop poles, a pavement that turns into a jet’s trail, a tank on a plinth and more reminders of...
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How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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Stock Car Racing in 1972
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in...
a month ago
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1972, women only raced each other, hair was grown out crewcuts slicked and draped, and TV-led big business had yet to move in....
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
a year ago
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
African History...
The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park...
5 months ago
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
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First Nations of the Canadian Subarctic: A Brief History
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
a year ago
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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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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Washburn Gallery in NY Permanently Closes After Half a Century
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Patterns in Humanity
Where parents make a difference
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
9 months ago
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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When Was D-Day?
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Classical Wisdom
Origins of Latin Literature
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
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...and the Master of Roman Comedy
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Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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The Indigenous Architecture of the Cosmos in the Amazon
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9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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Classical Wisdom
How to Celebrate the Love of Learning
Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
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Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
11 months ago
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
TheCollector
How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Britons Caught in the French Revolution
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
8 months ago
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
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An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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Were Anglo-Saxon Pagans a Threat to Medieval Christian Society?
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