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10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
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A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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One, Two (1965)
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Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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Venice Plan for Damaged Banksy Mural Concerns Locals
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A History Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
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The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
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Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show
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What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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6 Misconceptions About Biblical Angels
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Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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Francisco Goya’s Descent Into Madness: The Disturbing Black Paintings
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African History...
A general history of African explorers of the Old world, and a 19th century Bornu traveller of...
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old...
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This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old World’ from the classical period to the turn of the 20th century.
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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Should We Try to Control Nature?
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
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For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
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The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars
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A history of the monastic high life
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Should Death Concern Us?
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How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
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What Was the Warsaw Pact?
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Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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8 Must-See Highlights From London’s Soane Museum
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New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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Your favourite half-British president
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained
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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
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Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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Norman Rockwell Works Dispute Finally Over?
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Weekend Roundup
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10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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Basil Zaharoff: How to Play Both Sides, Sell Weapons and Get Rich
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US Returns 600 Stolen Artifacts to Italy
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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History of Chariots: 10 Types from Ancient Cultures Explained
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Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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Who Were the Legendary Mountain Men of the Old West?
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How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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The Philosophy of Time: Study the Nature of Past, Present, and Future
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
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Part One, anyway. More next week.
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The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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Do You Listen Well?
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Ovid's Dating Advice
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy?
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The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
Res Obscura
I talked to Terry Gross!
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A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled posting
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What Is Marie Antoinette Syndrome?
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Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language
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Overcoming Bias
Arntz-Gray & I Talk Feminism
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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Their Enemies The Russians
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But what about the rest of us?
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Educated rage
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American polarisation: part 2
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New Warhol Exhibition Reveals Rare Art Treasures
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How Does the Electoral College Work?
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The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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Fall of Berlin: How WWII Ended in Europe
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Patterns in Humanity
Crime in the USA
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11 months ago
A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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Seamus Heaney
A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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African History...
a brief note on Africa in 16th century global history.
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
Dr Alun Withey
Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing...
over a year ago
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing (published last week) about whether beards are finally ‘over’, and I thought it would be interesting to reflect on some of this. Since re-emerging around 2014, gaining popularity...
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L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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Why Bother Being Good? A Philosophical Exploration of Morality
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Capitalism, Govt Causes Culture Woes?
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
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Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
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...
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Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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The Modern World Is Boring.
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Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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The History and Beauty of the Moscow Metro
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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What’s the History of the Rugby World Cup?
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Dreams of Space -...
Blast Off (1973)
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full...
a year ago
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
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Encaustic Painting: An Ancient Art Form Explained
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How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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The Life of Aristotle
More Than A Philosopher
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The Two Trojan Wars
Secret Origins
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6 Haunted Historical Sites That Will Scare Your Socks Off
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5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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Flashbak
William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
8 months ago
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
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The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)
Journal of African cities chapter 8
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Journal of African cities chapter 8
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Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
5 months ago
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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Rastafari Philosophical Tenets: Divinity Within & African Redemption
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the...
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Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In Your Face. Like Mark...
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What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda?
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The Great Emu War: When Australians Lost to Flightless Birds
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10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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