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‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a pair of trousers from Joe Haggar of the Haggar Clothing Co. based in Dallas, Texas. Not a shy man, Johnson was known for conducting official business whilst sat on the toilet and...
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
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Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
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Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
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11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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