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What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
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6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know
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6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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Andrei Molodkin Holds Art Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life
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Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019
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It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not that it isn’t true for some of them, who tend to relegate themselves to smaller subgenres: consult Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music for a map of the sonic territory.) And it’s...
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What Was Kristallnacht? The Horrors of the Night of Broken Glass
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U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
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On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
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A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
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One I bought fifty years ago.
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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African History...
On Hegel's ignorance of African History
*my article for ROAPE journal
a year ago
*my article for ROAPE journal
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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Cecil John Rhodes: Life and Legacy of a British Imperialist
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10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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Flashbak
Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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7 of the Most Popular Hats in History
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The Past Is Another Country.
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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The Stars of Sun Records: 4 Famous Singers
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The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff
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Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
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j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
a year ago
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
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10 Historic Christmas Towns in the US to Visit
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Ode to a Grecian Tour
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5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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Flashbak
The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
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Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and director of production at London-based publisher Faber & Gwyer (later Faber and Faber), hit upon the idea of sending poetry pamphlets, each featuring the work of well-known writers and...
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What Is the Will to Power?
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Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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History Today Feed
The Great Fire of Smyrna
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Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
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Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
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Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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How Did Philosophers of Different Eras Perceive Happiness?
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Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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JamesHoare
Wed, 09/11/2024 - 07:00
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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Wed, 09/11/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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Trying to Understand...
In Praise of the Preterite
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a year ago
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Ancient Greek Art
Through the Ages
3 months ago
TheCollector
New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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Two Paintings Once Stolen by Nazis Are Donated to the Louvre Museum
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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African History...
The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
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At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
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What Is Thatcherism?
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Do Words Matter?
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TheCollector
6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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Homer, Heracles, and Virgil
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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Flashbak
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
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Plato on Political Polarization
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
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Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
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Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
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6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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A Video Interview with Luis Royo: TheCollector Chats with Fantasy Artist
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Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
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10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
a year ago
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
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Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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Trying to Understand...
Rules, Rules Rules
Because that's all they can do.
9 months ago
Because that's all they can do.
Flashbak
El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned...
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At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
TheCollector
The History of Porto & 21 Amazing Historic Sites You Should Visit
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History Today Feed
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
a year ago
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
TheCollector
Ivar the Boneless: History, TV Portrayals, and Viking Legends
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Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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TheCollector
Who Was Averroes?
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African History...
a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
a year ago
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world.
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
7 months ago
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
A Collection of...
Gap Week: August 2, 2024
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
4 months ago
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TheCollector
The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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Classical Wisdom
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Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
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Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
TheCollector
A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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TheCollector
9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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TheCollector
Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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TheCollector
England’s Museum Collections Missing More Than 1,700 Objects
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Flashbak
Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom...
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For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
2 months ago
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
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Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many
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Newell Convers Wyeth Painting: From $4 to $191,000
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TheCollector
Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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Wrong Side of...
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WOKE DOOD: WAT NOU?
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TheCollector
Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King
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Flashbak
Emma Willard’s Time Maps
“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that...
7 months ago
“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that community can be brought in to exercise the way.” – Emma Hart Willard Emma Willard (February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was a trailblazing American educator who founded the first...
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
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Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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Hidden History
The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at...
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Sophocles' Swansong
Oedipus at Colonus
a year ago
TheCollector
The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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Global Inequality...
Three steps to freedom
Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
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Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
TheCollector
What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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CrimethInc.
Festivals of Resistance : A Call for Gatherings the Weekend Before Trump Takes Office
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...
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What Are the Strengths of Determinism?
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was...
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Auctioned for $6 Million
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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History Today Feed
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
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TheCollector
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What Is Capoeira?
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What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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Dr Alun Withey
The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
a year ago
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Open Culture
Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from...
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How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the...
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Prepare for the Worst?
Without living forever in fear and worry?
5 months ago
Without living forever in fear and worry?
History Today Feed
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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j.hoare
Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
11 months ago
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
j.hoare
Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
TheCollector
Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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Battle of Poitiers, by Charles de Steuben, 1837, via Wikimedia Commons
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Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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TheCollector
History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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How Did the Tudors Celebrate Christmas?
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Classical Wisdom
Why Did Rome Fall?
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
a year ago
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
Patterns in Humanity
Genes and social stratification
How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
8 months ago
How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
TheCollector
5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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Beneath the Waves...
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Shays’ Rebellion Explained: A New Governing System for the New US
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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Philosopher Kings
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TheCollector
Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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Trying to Understand...
Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
a year ago
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
Classical Wisdom
How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
3 months ago
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
TheCollector
The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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Classical Wisdom
Sappho: The Lost Poetess
Watch now (1 min) | Now FREE with a Classical Wisdom Kids Yearly Membership
a year ago
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History Today Feed
The Women who Forged Medieval England
The Women who Forged Medieval England
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
3 months ago
The Women who Forged Medieval England
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are...
over a year ago
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
TheCollector
September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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10 Facts About the Curious Calvin Coolidge: The Coolest President?
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Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
7 months ago
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TheCollector
Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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Trying to Understand...
They Say They Want Rearmament ....
We-ell, you know ....
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When Was the First Crusade?
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History Today Feed
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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JamesHoare
Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
7 months ago
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
TheCollector
Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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TheCollector
Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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Flashbak
16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime...
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Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime thrillers laced with smoky cynicism, femme fatales and amoral ambiguity first produced by Hollywood in the 1940s. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in...
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George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel
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African History...
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the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar
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10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
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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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Hinduism in Bali: Things You Need to Know
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
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A History of the US House of Representatives
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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The Evolution of Socialism and Its Influence in the US
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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What Is a Medieval Morality Play?
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Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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The First Philosopher?
And the Boundless Universe
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Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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Who Won the Battle of Atlanta?
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What Was Organization Todt?
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
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Gods Vs Titans
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...and the Origins of the Universe
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The 4 Most Controversial Historical Events from the Past 200 Years
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came...
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The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
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How Are Art and Science Related?
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What Is First Corinthians About?
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Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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Patterns in Humanity
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Have A Weird Christmas With Our Album Of Vintage Photo Oddities
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Why Did Remedios Varo Paint So Many Self-Portraits?
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Who is Buried in the Valley of the Kings?
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Overcoming Bias
Tension-Filled Black Holes
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Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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3 Beautiful Places in the North of England Tourists Tend to Neglect
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The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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Another Of My Essays In French
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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Dreams of Space -...
Dream to Meet(1958)
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A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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Does FREE WILL Exist?
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
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Art Basel Paris Kicks Off in Grand Palais
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
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What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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The Death of A New Jersey Shopping Mall
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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What Are the Scientific Roots of Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
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Inventing Cyrillic
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Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
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What Are the Recurring Symbols in Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
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Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
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Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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Classical Wisdom
Respect the Spartan Woman!
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Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World
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Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England. “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
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6 Facts About Hilla von Rebay: The Mastermind Behind the Guggenheim
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Why drug history?
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Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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The Tragedy of Ajax
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Explore Montmartre Through Van Gogh’s Eyes: Views of Paris
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What Is the History of Thanksgiving?
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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