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Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
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How Did Socrates Die?
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Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
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[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
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Flashbak
My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
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Hidden Figure Identified in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco
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Changes in income distributions in China, India and the United States, 2018-23
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Let's Hear It For The "Underlying Causes."
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TheCollector
Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
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A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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TheCollector
Why Are There Two Virginias?
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Dr Alun Withey
Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave!
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today...
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Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today is usually a pretty mundane – if not a pleasant – experience. Indeed, the rise of traditional barbershops over the past few years, offering shaving as an experience, together with...
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The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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Flashbak
Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
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TheCollector
The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
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What Are the 6 Tallest Mountains in Alaska?
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History Today Feed
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
TheCollector
What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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African History...
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demystifying an ancient African society
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demystifying an ancient African society
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What is Pantheism in Art?
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Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
TheCollector
How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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TheCollector
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Flashbak
Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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History Today Feed
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
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TheCollector
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What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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Classical Wisdom
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The God of Wine!
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The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has...
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Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
TheCollector
What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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What Is Russian Futurism?
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Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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7 Famous Surrealist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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TheCollector
How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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History Today Feed
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
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Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
TheCollector
Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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Flashbak
New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s...
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Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s mix of fashion, art, and music at clubs like Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager’s Studio 54 and Howard Stein and Peppo Vanini’s Xenon, where nightlife and performance met. Distribution...
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9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Separate History from Myth?
And does it need to be true to be important?
a year ago
And does it need to be true to be important?
TheCollector
Jonathan Sacks: Are Science and Religion Enemies?
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TheCollector
Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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TheCollector
How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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TheCollector
What Were the Religious Beliefs of Hans Holbein the Younger?
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History Today Feed
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
CrimethInc.
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Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
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Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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Stained Glass Sold At Sotheby’s is Stolen From Notre Dame?
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TheCollector
How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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TheCollector
How Does Mona Hatoum Turn Ordinary Objects into Artworks?
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Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry?
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TheCollector
Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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Hundred Rabbits
leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
over a year ago
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
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Who Was African American Lawman Bass Reeves?
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12 Most Important Art Techniques of Modern Times
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The 5 Most Ridiculous Ways the CIA Tried & Failed to Kill Fidel Castro
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Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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History Today Feed
Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
JamesHoare
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Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:11
TheCollector
Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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TheCollector
Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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History Today Feed
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
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TheCollector
How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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History Today Feed
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Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
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Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
Who Was Eusebius?
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6 Outrageous Whaling Stories
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Classical Wisdom
Should Death Concern Us?
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a year ago
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow?
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Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know
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Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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weird medieval guys
An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns
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Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
Dreams of Space -...
Looking Into Science (1965)
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965...
over a year ago
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
TheCollector
The Indigenous Architecture of the Cosmos in the Amazon
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History Today Feed
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
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Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
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The Performance is Over
Even if the artists don't realise it.
a year ago
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Classical Wisdom
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TheCollector
Van Gogh & Gauguin: A Fiery Friendship Between Two Post-Impressionists
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Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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Global Inequality...
The end and the beginning of history
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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I Dare You...
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
9 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
Summary Of Changes
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Trying to Understand...
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Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
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Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
TheCollector
Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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Flashbak
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History Today Feed
‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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Wed, 08/07/2024 - 09:01
TheCollector
An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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History Today Feed
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
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Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
TheCollector
Top Aces of World War II: 7 Talented Fighter Pilots
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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Julius Caesar: From General to Dictator (Bio, Battles, & Death)
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Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name?
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Hendrik Verwoerd’s Life & Death: The Architect of Apartheid
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Open Culture
The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
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TheCollector
Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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African History...
A history of Zanzibar before the Omanis (600-1873)
Journal of African cities chapter 7
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Journal of African cities chapter 7
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A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900.
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a month ago
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies across the continent during the bronze age.
TheCollector
What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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Classical Wisdom
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide in the United States: a summary
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Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
TheCollector
Top Five Painters To Watch in 2024
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Classical Wisdom
How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
Advice from the Ancients
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
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