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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
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When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
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8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau
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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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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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Unveiling Romeo and Juliet: A Guide to Shakespeare’s Timeless Tragedy
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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Climate Vandal Painted Words in Red Next to a Civil War Exhibit
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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Middle Kingdom Pyramids: The Lesser Known Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
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History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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African History...
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a year ago
*my article for New Lines Magazine
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First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
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African History...
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Dreams of Space -...
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A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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Flashbak
British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
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British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
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What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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African History...
a brief note on African travel literature in history
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a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
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What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone!
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
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Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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Who Was Eusebius?
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Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s
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Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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Overcoming Bias
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Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently puzzling to justify more careful study.
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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The Great Fire of Smyrna
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Thomas Gainsborough: 7 Facts You Need to Know
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Global Inequality...
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I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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Free French Bombers Over France
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A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore)
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Understanding JS Bach in 5 Compositions
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How Did Solomon’s Temple Influence Worship?
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal
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What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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How Did the Tudors Celebrate Christmas?
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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Dreams of Space -...
Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
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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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Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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The Life and Work of Pheidias
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Yuruparí: Amazon’s Unique Myth of Creation & Ritual of Passage
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War
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Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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