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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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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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African History...
A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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When Was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
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Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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Pera Palace: The Istanbul Muse for Literary Giants
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What Is the History of Thanksgiving?
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Res Obscura is now on Substack
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Three years late, but historians are always late
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Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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Global Inequality...
Abundance, capitalism and climate change
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where...
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In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
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Sales Drop for Christie’s in 2023
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Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness?
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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon
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How Has the Tower of London Changed Over Time?
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5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain...
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Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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What Makes a Celt & Did They Ever Inhabit Britannia?
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The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
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Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
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Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
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The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some have been drawn on the printed photo with pen, others form part of the image itself. The use of bows and arrows by humans predates recorded history and is common to most...
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism
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La Llorona: Latin America’s Vengeful Ghost in Film & Literature
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The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of Asia
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plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
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What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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Who Is the Most Famous Centaur?
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Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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Centuries of Childhood
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What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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Hundred Rabbits
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
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Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican
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A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
7 months ago
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
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Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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CrimethInc.
Georgia: The Firework Protests : A Report and Video Footage from the Streets of Tbilisi
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government...
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Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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African History...
Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
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In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper reported that “The king shows himself only once a year to his people, going out of his court on horseback, accompanied by three or four hundred noblemen on horseback.”
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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J.S. Bach’s Life and Travels in Germany
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6 Astounding Achievements by Maya Lin
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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
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This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
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The Life of Malcolm X: “You Had Better Make Some Noise”
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Global Inequality...
2x2 geopolitics
Wars and ideology simplified
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What Is the History of the Blues?
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North Pacific Logbook
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
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The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa.
a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
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a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
Classical Wisdom
Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
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Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
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What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
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“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and Sketches Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877–August 9, 1962) speaks of the search for truth and that sense of escaping into the natural world in this 1920 collection of his pros,...
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded...
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Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded by Ellis O. Jones, a former associate editor of Life magazine and editor of Ladies’ Home Journal who once called for the US Army and Navy to be disbanded and went on to head the...
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
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For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
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Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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10 London Museums You Should Visit
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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Trying to Understand...
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Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors
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This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those...
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments)
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
On the Spot: Levi Roach
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
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What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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Was Walt Whitman a Transcendentalist?
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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Res Obscura
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
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For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
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How French Was Medieval England?
How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
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How French Was Medieval England?
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What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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Weekend Roundup
Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
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Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
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Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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Trying to Understand...
The Power Of Absent Things.
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The Balloon Museum Opens in London
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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Frick Collection Announces April 2025 Reopening
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11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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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
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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The History and Beauty of the Moscow Metro
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China’s Communist Comic Books
China’s Communist Comic Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
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China’s Communist Comic Books
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Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
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Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
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Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
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What Was Kristallnacht? The Horrors of the Night of Broken Glass
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Classical Wisdom
Gladiator Combat
Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
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Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
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What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the...
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Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
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Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
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Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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