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NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
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History Today Feed
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
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What Is a Banana Republic?
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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What Was the Oregon Trail? History and Legacy
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What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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Patterns in Humanity
When few do great harm
Power laws in criminal behavior
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Power laws in criminal behavior
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Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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What Is the Philosophy Behind Zen Gardens?
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Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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Trying to Understand...
Getting Used To Being Weak.
It's worse than you probably imagine.
a year ago
It's worse than you probably imagine.
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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When Was D-Day?
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Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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African History...
A history of the south-western Saharan towns of Tichitt, Walata, Wadan and Chinguetti (800-1912)
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
a year ago
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
Classical Wisdom
Eternal Glory
Homer and Kleos
2 months ago
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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8 months ago
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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Who Won the Second Battle of Bull Run?
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
No End Of A Lesson.
If we can only learn it.
3 months ago
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20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome
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Dreams of Space -...
The Eager Beaver Space Book (1962)
As I keep digging in my collection I have found Space Beavers! This was a promotional comic book...
5 days ago
As I keep digging in my collection I have found Space Beavers! This was a promotional comic book from Cities Service gasoline. It probably was a give-away with purchase. It reflects the early 60s where the Mercury launches had taken place and we were looking ahead to the future....
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What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
4 months ago
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
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The Most Dramatic Operation to Recover Looted Native American Art
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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The Essential Greeks
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3 weeks ago
***Now Enrolling: Starting January 15th, 2025
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The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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Open Culture
The New York Times Presents the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, Selected by 503 Novelists, Poets...
For longtime readers of American book journalism, scrolling through the New York Times Book Review’s...
3 weeks ago
For longtime readers of American book journalism, scrolling through the New York Times Book Review’s just-published list of the 100 best books of the twenty-first century will summon dim memories of many a once-unignorable critical fuss. At one time or another over the past 25...
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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7 African Myths About Animals
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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3 months ago
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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Mon, 10/28/2024 -...
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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Mon, 10/28/2024 - 10:04
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Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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A Colossal Ramses II Statue Pieces Uncovered
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What Makes Jean-Luc Godard An Iconic Film Director?
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Classical Wisdom
Virgil and the Aeneid
Rome's Greatest Epic
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What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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The Angolan Civil War: 26 Years of Fighting
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Open Culture
Freddie Mercury & David Bowie’s Isolated Vocals for Queen’s “Under Pressure” (1981)
In the summer of 1981, the British band Queen was recording tracks for their tenth studio album, Hot...
6 days ago
In the summer of 1981, the British band Queen was recording tracks for their tenth studio album, Hot Space, at Mountain Studios in Montreux, Switzerland. As it happened, David Bowie had scheduled time at the same studio to record the title song for the movie Cat People. Before...
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Les Soixante-Huitards: The French Student Demonstrations of May 1968
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Flashbak
Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
2 months ago
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while...
10 months ago
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground...
6 months ago
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In...
3 months ago
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain – America, A Horse With No Name We don’t know where British … Continue reading "American...
Trying to Understand...
Out Of Control.
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
3 months ago
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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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:...
4 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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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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Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in...
9 months ago
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review...
a month ago
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
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Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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George Washington’s The Revolutionary War Letter on Sale
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Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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Classical Wisdom
Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
a year ago
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
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Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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Marcus Garvey: A Leader in the Pan-Africanist Movement
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Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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What is Digital Art? A Brief History and Tips for Collecting
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Flashbak
Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often...
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“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before, and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them’ – Helen Keller Helen Keller is best known for her campaign to help the disabled and support for...
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The 7 Best Historical Sites in Bangkok, Thailand
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Wrong Side of...
American polarisation
The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
2 months ago
The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
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Rediscovered Quentin Metsys Madonna Heads to Auction
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Classical Wisdom
Empedocles
The Philosopher God?
a year ago
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Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language
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The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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Who Won the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House?
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Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
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William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
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10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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6 Famous Artists Who Loved Cats
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Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
“I try not to present villages in a romantic way’ – Jindřich Štreit Jindřich Štreit (born 5...
4 months ago
“I try not to present villages in a romantic way’ – Jindřich Štreit Jindřich Štreit (born 5 September 1946 in Vsetín) is a Czech photographer best known for his documentary photography. He concentrates on documenting the rural life and people of Czech villages. His...
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How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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Volksgeist: Who Was Johann Gottfried Herder?
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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African History...
Roads and wheeled transport in African history.
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
a year ago
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
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Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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7 Museums to Visit in Athens
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Trying to Understand...
The Modern World Is Boring.
Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
7 months ago
Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
Res Obscura
The most interesting things I read in 2023
Most of them are not from 2023
a year ago
Most of them are not from 2023
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How Did Hokusai & Hiroshige Become so Famous?
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Prevent Character Assassination?
Corruption in the Ancient World
10 months ago
Corruption in the Ancient World
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7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Texas
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How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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Res Obscura
Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy?
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
a year ago
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Changing Seasons
4 months ago
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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Serop Simonian Art Dealer Arrested by German Polica
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
ICYMI: Emperors, Conquerors and Saints
New Cabins *NOW* Available
9 months ago
New Cabins *NOW* Available
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The History of Left-Handedness: Why Is This a Bias?
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What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
3 months ago
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
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6 Famous Musicians at the Center of Big Mysteries
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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Why Did Ukraine Make Stamps of Banksy’s Art?
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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Hidden History
The French Space Cat Felicette
France joined the Space Race in the 1950s, and one of her missions was a test flight involving the...
2 weeks ago
France joined the Space Race in the 1950s, and one of her missions was a test flight involving the first (and so far only) cat to enter space. It did not end well for the cat. In the aftermath of the Second World War, France, under the leadership of General Charles De Gaulle, was...
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