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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:14
7 months ago
On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:14
TheCollector
What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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a year ago
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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a year ago
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7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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a year ago
TheCollector
8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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6 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
a year ago
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
TheCollector
Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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5 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
To Tip or Not To Tip: A Victorian Traveller’s Perspective
Like it or not, tipping is a big part of hospitality and the service industry. Debates about how...
2 weeks ago
Like it or not, tipping is a big part of hospitality and the service industry. Debates about how much/whether to tip rumble on, but they are not new. Even in the 18th and 19th centuries, travellers were complaining about the amount of unwanted or unexpected extras they had to pay...
TheCollector
What Is an Antipope?
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3 months ago
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It...
over a year ago
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
TheCollector
Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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10 months ago
Flashbak
The Prostitutes’ Gaze: The Integrity of Mid-Century Sex Workers (NSFW)
“I take photos to amuse myself” – Georges Thiry Georges Thiry (1906 – 19940 took many pictures...
a month ago
“I take photos to amuse myself” – Georges Thiry Georges Thiry (1906 – 19940 took many pictures in his native Belgium. From 1935 to 1975, he produced 40,000 negatives, almost as many contact sheets and a number of prints. His focus was on artist, chiefly Surrealists – René...
Open Culture
The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
a month ago
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed.
They didn't know. But they know now.
8 months ago
They didn't know. But they know now.
TheCollector
6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘The Worlds of Victor Sassoon’ by Rosemary Wakeman review
‘The Worlds of Victor Sassoon’ by Rosemary Wakeman review
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/20/2025 - 10:25
2 days ago
‘The Worlds of Victor Sassoon’ by Rosemary Wakeman review
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/20/2025 - 10:25
Dreams of Space -...
Happy Journeys (1961)
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about...
a year ago
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about the future and ways someone might travel. The illustration were double page full color paintings of a exciting and strange future that might be around the corner. I see in this...
TheCollector
US Returns 600 Stolen Artifacts to Italy
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How Should We Look at History?
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
10 months ago
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
History Today Feed
Death of a Samurai Legend
Death of a Samurai Legend
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
7 months ago
Death of a Samurai Legend
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
TheCollector
Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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a year ago
TheCollector
4 Techniques of 19th-Century Photography You Should Know
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a year ago
African History...
a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
a year ago
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
TheCollector
The Sand Creek Massacre: A Horrific Tale of Betrayal & Greed
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6 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIb:
This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at...
4 months ago
This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at Paradox Interactives ancient grand strategy game, Imperator: Rome, which covers (inter alia) the period of the collapse of the Roman Republic, which we generally call the Late...
TheCollector
Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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TheCollector
What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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TheCollector
How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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TheCollector
Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE)
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a year ago
Open Culture
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...
3 weeks ago
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...
TheCollector
The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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10 months ago
TheCollector
10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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4 months ago
Wrong Side of...
The War on the Countryside
The Shire must be brought to heel
2 months ago
The Shire must be brought to heel
TheCollector
Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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7 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide
Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
9 months ago
Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
TheCollector
5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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a year ago
TheCollector
Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Ancient Greek Sculptures You Must Know
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5 days ago
TheCollector
What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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a year ago
African History...
a brief note on themes in African art.
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
6 months ago
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
TheCollector
How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Past Is Another Country.
A book review from the future.
6 months ago
A book review from the future.
TheCollector
The Skeletons of Shanidar Cave: What Can They Tell Us About the Past?
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a week ago
Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other...
a year ago
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
AND October 1, 2012...
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...
3 months ago
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.
TheCollector
Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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a year ago
Flashbak
Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
7 months ago
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
TheCollector
Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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8 months ago
TheCollector
American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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a year ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of Mount Everest
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Julio-Claudians
6 months ago
TheCollector
The Most Dramatic Operation to Recover Looted Native American Art
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a year ago
TheCollector
6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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5 months ago
Flashbak
Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
4 months ago
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
TheCollector
Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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3 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Will it Bend or Will it Break?
The international system, that is.
a year ago
The international system, that is.
TheCollector
What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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4 months ago
TheCollector
5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Zangbeto: Get to Know Voodoo’s Whirling Spirit Dance
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a month ago
History Today Feed
How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
JamesHoare
Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
2 months ago
How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
JamesHoare
Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
TheCollector
Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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7 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Betrayed By Culture
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
3 months ago
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
TheCollector
Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the 8 Best Art Attractions in Budapest? (local tips)
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TheCollector
The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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TheCollector
Who Was Julius Caesar?
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
France’s Long March Against Racism
France’s Long March Against Racism
j.hoare
Sun, 12/03/2023 - 01:01
a year ago
France’s Long March Against Racism
j.hoare
Sun, 12/03/2023 - 01:01
African History...
Join me on Notes
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
a year ago
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
Classical Wisdom
Martin Luther King and LOVE
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
2 days ago
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
TheCollector
8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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8 months ago
TheCollector
How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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7 months ago
Hidden History
Antarctic Snow Cruiser
In 1939, the United States began work on a colossal motor vehicle to be used for exploration and...
4 weeks ago
In 1939, the United States began work on a colossal motor vehicle to be used for exploration and field work in Antarctica. By 1939 Antarctica remained as one of the last unexplored regions on the planet. Norwegian adventurer Roald Amundsen had been the first human to reach the...
TheCollector
What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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9 months ago
A Collection of...
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...
a year 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...
TheCollector
How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
3 months ago
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
History Today Feed
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
11 months ago
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments)
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9 months ago
Flashbak
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...
Wrong Side of...
Twitter's White Terror era
The Vibe Shift comes to Britain
a week ago
The Vibe Shift comes to Britain
TheCollector
How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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TheCollector
10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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a month ago
TheCollector
Who Is Ai Weiwei?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive...
8 months ago
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive that speaks of her talent as a street and press photographer, writer and collector, most notably of vintage dog photographs which now live at London’s Bishopsgate Institute. “Mine...
TheCollector
6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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a year ago
TheCollector
Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
Beware the Lides of March
Beware the Lides of March
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
10 months ago
Beware the Lides of March
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
Classical Wisdom
Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
New Event: Taking place July 10th with Dr. Benjamin Olshin
7 months ago
New Event: Taking place July 10th with Dr. Benjamin Olshin
TheCollector
The Mystery of Agnes Martin in 7 Facts
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/25/2024 - 11:01
a month ago
‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/25/2024 - 11:01
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