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The Women who Forged Medieval England
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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Space Witch (1959)
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US President or American Caesar?
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Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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How Are Art and Science Related?
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
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Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
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Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome?
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Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
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Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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Tattoos in the Bible: Can Christians Modify Their Bodies?
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
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Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
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The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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The True Knights Templar
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
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When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres tour, Blondie got the call. Georgia-based southern rockers Stillwater couldn’t play. So would the New Yorkers deliver what 18,000 fans of the Canadian rockers packed into the...
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The Value of Wills to Historians
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The Value of Wills to Historians
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What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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