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Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks as the coincidence of illness, the dense part of the teaching semester and unexpected travel are playing havoc on my schedule. I can only promise that we will finish the series on...
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What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
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Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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In 2019, militants in Austin, Texas started an organization with the aim of defending homeless camps against sweeps—forced removals disguised as “cleanups” carried out by cops and work crews. This organization, Stop the Sweeps, intervened in a cycle of struggles that included the...
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What Is Gnosticism?
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The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
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Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
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These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
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How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
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Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again.
What the Moon is Like is another book by the children's science writer Franklyn Branley. He wrote many children's non-fiction books with a variety of...
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3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
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13 Surprising Facts About William Shakespeare
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Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
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An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do.
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Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
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I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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Cecil John Rhodes: Life and Legacy of a British Imperialist
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The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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New York City In The 1960s – A Photographer’s Love story
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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
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Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings?
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
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The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews, comedy skits, and live performances”. Stuart Newman, a member of the The Roustabouts, one of the groups featured on the show – along with Idiot Savant, The Hard, Jo Marshall, Shrapnel...
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This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if Donald Trump is running for President as a fascist. Worry not, this isn’t me shifting to full-time political pundit, nor is this the formal end of the hiatus (which will happen on...
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Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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Death of a Samurai Legend
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‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
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Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
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‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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The kinetic phase may come next.
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The kinetic phase may come next.
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What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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6 Outrageous Whaling Stories
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‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
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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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How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
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In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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State and society on Africa's largest island.
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State and society on Africa's largest island.
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Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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When Was the First Crusade?
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Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) convinced her to remain on Star Trek after she had decided to leave the series for a starring role on Broadway. In 1966, Star Trek creator...
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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Why Do Religions Decline?
Why Do Religions Decline?
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Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
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Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
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Patterns in Humanity
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Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History
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7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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Virgil and the Aeneid
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What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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Summary of changes for November 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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Street Artist JR Installs Optical Illusion at Milan Train Station
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How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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Mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait Sells for $32 Million
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
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7 Museums to Visit in Athens
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Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
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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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Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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Wed, 12/20/2023 - 00:00
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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Wed, 12/20/2023 - 00:00
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
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Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
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Cosmodrome (1987)
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is...
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Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
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The Coming Of Neo-Tribalism.
Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
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Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
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Newell Convers Wyeth Painting: From $4 to $191,000
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Sappho
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Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Who Were the Toughest Women in the Old West?
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Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
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We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
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What Is the History of the Hudson’s Bay Company?
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The Sand Creek Massacre: A Horrific Tale of Betrayal & Greed
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5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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Who Were the Maccabees?
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Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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10 Women Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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