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A Collection of...
Collections: The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron...
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This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron Age Mediterranean (focusing on the period from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC): the humble, effective and ubiquitous thrusting spear. In particular, I want to discuss the striking...
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The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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Francis Ford Coppola Picks His Favorite Criterion Movies & Gives Advice to Filmmakers
Upon stepping into the hallowed Criterion Closet, stocked with hundreds of that cinephile video...
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Upon stepping into the hallowed Criterion Closet, stocked with hundreds of that cinephile video label’s finest releases, Francis Ford Coppola speaks of a director who “believed in a film he wanted to make, and used his entire fortune, because the financing system of the time...
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A History Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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Plastic Surgery as Art? 6 Facts About ORLAN
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist...
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Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
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6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel
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Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which...
11 months ago
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which people will get individual jet-powered wings to fly. It is set a little like a fantasy and a little like a dream. It has "perfect" 1950s illustrations about how the future might...
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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The kingdom of Ndongo and the Portuguese: Queen Njinga and the dynasty of women sovereigns...
The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
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The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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Working offgrid efficiently
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the...
over a year ago
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the limits of our space, and at first, it was difficult to create new things, as we had to make time to learn how to solve underlying problems. Our boat was not just an office, it was...
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Understanding JS Bach in 5 Compositions
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Why Aren’t We Happy?
Count no man happy until the end is known
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Count no man happy until the end is known
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10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest
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The Newer World Order.
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Putting Pirates on Trial
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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The 'hidden founders' of African studies in Europe: African intellectuals in the Holy Roman Empire...
In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then...
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In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then the Holy Roman Empire (modern Germany) where he met Hiob Ludolf, an envoy and linguist whom later generations of ‘Ethiopists’ would regard as the founder of Ethiopian studies in...
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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Monet’s London Paintings to Reunite After 120 Years
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5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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The Revolt of the Outer Party.
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
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Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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Greco-Scythian Artifacts Seized by Spanish Police
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7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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How Does Mona Hatoum Turn Ordinary Objects into Artworks?
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Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages
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4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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6 Female Pre-Raphaelite Artists You Should Know
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Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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What’s the History of the Rugby World Cup?
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Global Inequality...
Changes in income distributions in China, India and the United States, 2018-23
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The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
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Empress Theodora
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Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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What Was the Religion of the Ancient Phoenicians and Carthaginians?
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Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and...
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“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883–April 10, 1931) published the collection Twenty Drawings, the first and only time a selection of his paintings had appeared in print....
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How Can We Separate History from Myth?
And does it need to be true to be important?
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And does it need to be true to be important?
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A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
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“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
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Interview with Dr. Roberta Bondar: Intertwining Art and Science
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The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
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Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
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“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime Richard Klein, Professor of French at Cornell University and editor of Diacritics, quit smoking while writing Cigarettes Are Sublime and has been nicotine-free ever since. So do...
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History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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What Is Voguing?
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Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
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Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
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A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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Do You Listen Well?
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Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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Trying to Understand...
The Threat of Back to Normal
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Global power has always been distributed.
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Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
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The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
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10 Curious Facts About Johnny Cash
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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Seneca's Tragic Plays
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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...
6 months ago
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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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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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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Why Did Ukraine Make Stamps of Banksy’s Art?
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What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of...
11 months ago
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of Hellenistic warfare and the triumph of the Roman legion. Our core question is a really common one: why was the Roman legion able to decisively defeat the Hellenistic...
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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Rome's Worst General?
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
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And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
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The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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What Is Hagia Sophia & Who Built It?
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
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African History...
The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park...
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At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
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The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush
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Summary of changes for August
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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
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Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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Dreams of Space -...
One, Two (1965)
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
a year ago
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific...
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In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
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How Did Romania Become a Country?
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Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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Give All to Love: A New Documentary on Ralph Waldo Emerson Debuts
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Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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A social history of the Lamu city-state (1370-1885)
Journal of African cities chapter 5
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Journal of African cities chapter 5
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it...
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Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it presented creations by such couturiers as Louise Chéruit, Premet (best known for La Garconne, or The Flapper, a black dress with a white collar and cuffs introduced in 1923, Philip et...
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 08:00
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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Mon, 10/21/2024 - 08:00
African History...
A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
demystifying an ancient African society
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demystifying an ancient African society
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King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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