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Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the...
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Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Julius Caesar
9 months ago
TheCollector
Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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Who Was Vernon Lee?
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Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
11 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added galley refit, updated lifelines, seamed box cushions, and moisture prevention underliner.
Permacomputing, revamped the page.
Flappy Bird,...
TheCollector
Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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History Today Feed
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
TheCollector
The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might
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Classical Wisdom
Magna Graecia
Greek or Roman?
2 months ago
TheCollector
NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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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
Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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What Was Operation Ichi-Go?
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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Thomas Gainsborough: 7 Facts You Need to Know
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most...
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As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most likely die in the end. In the final instalment of the four-strong Joe and Petunia series, the British couple illustrate the dangers driving on bad tyres by driving into a tree. ...
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The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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Words and Worlds: Does Language Shape Our Reality?
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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Celebrating Diversity at The National Mall’s Outdoor Show
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Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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Collectible Toys Worth $1000s: Rare Finds With High Prices
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Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War
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The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
Part One, anyway. More next week.
8 months ago
Part One, anyway. More next week.
TheCollector
History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
TheCollector
The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
a year ago
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
TheCollector
Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death
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The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French...
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The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French readers in 1847. Baudelaire, who saw Poe as a “sacred soul” and something of a kindred spirit, translated many of the American writer’s words into French, including Poe’s poem The...
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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Kalimantan: Indonesia’s Hidden Gem for Animal Lovers
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The Anne of Cleves Louvre Portrait Got a Makeover
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Revolt of the Outer Party.
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
9 months ago
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
TheCollector
5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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What Are the Abraham Tapestries?
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Malta & Its Role in World War II: A Crucial Fortress Island
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The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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Classical Wisdom
The Immortals
...and the feared Persian Army
a year ago
...and the feared Persian Army
Dreams of Space -...
Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a...
a year ago
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a nice gift box with a space quiz. It is a little bit of an odd astronomy book. The illustration are very beautiful and if you notice each planet has smaller people in the picture to...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
African History...
Africa and Europe during the age of mutual exploration: a Swahili traveler's description of 19th...
The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on...
3 months ago
The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on a global scale in which African travelers were active agents.
TheCollector
The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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TheCollector Interviews Artist Inna Levinson: From Paint to Pixels
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Life of Plato
9 months ago
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Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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The Met Reveals Design for New Modern and Contemporary Wing
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6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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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...
a month ago
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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Who Won the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
a year ago
Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
Classical Wisdom
What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
10 months ago
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
TheCollector
Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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TheCollector
Ben Franklin in Politics: The Founding Father Who Was Never President
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Climate Vandal Painted Words in Red Next to a Civil War Exhibit
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Dreams of Space -...
Satellites As A Hobby (1962)
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and...
a year ago
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and created a space map in 1958 (see Sept 8, 2011 blog post). They reused these illustration in several publication which may explain why they seem a little "dated" for 1962. This book...
Flashbak
Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white...
3 weeks ago
This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails. A leading figure in early American abstraction, Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) was an American painter, poet,...
TheCollector
4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those...
8 months ago
“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
TheCollector
What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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10 Small but Historic Countries You Didn’t Know About
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Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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What Are the Challenges of Creating ‘True Crime’ Stories?
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Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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10 Forgotten US Presidents
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Who Were the Most Important Disciples of Jesus Christ?
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10 Historic Christmas Towns in the US to Visit
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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Trying to Understand...
When The Music's Over ...
Turn out the lights.
10 months ago
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The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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Classical Wisdom
Have We Become Anti-Human?
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
a year ago
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
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Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray...
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade....
12 months ago
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
TheCollector
The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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Trying to Understand...
The Sense Of An Ending.
But right back where we started from.
4 months ago
But right back where we started from.
TheCollector
Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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Dutch Influence in Alsatian Art: 5 Artists Known for Their Still-Lifes
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Who Won the Battle of Atlanta?
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in...
8 months ago
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
TheCollector
Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II,...
a year ago
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
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‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post...
a month ago
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
TheCollector
Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the...
a year ago
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
Overcoming Bias
Culture Status Report
I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my...
a month ago
I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my last post make this a good time to take stock.
TheCollector
The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Denmark
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
5 months ago
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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