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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
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‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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Hundred Rabbits
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Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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Hundred Rabbits
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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What Are the Origins of Santa Claus?
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London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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Overcoming Bias
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Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
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It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
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Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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Flashbak
Bullshit Jobs: The Emptiness of Life In A Corporate Office
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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten...
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From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten city-state...
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TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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No End Of A Lesson.
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Flashbak
London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
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Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
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Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
11 months ago
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New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
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Who was Thorkell the Tall?
Who was Thorkell the Tall?
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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TheCollector
What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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The First Philosopher?
And the Boundless Universe
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And the Boundless Universe
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Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
TheCollector
What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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CrimethInc.
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4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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Flashbak
Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was...
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1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was sold, women raged in raucous nightclubs, gay rights found its voice, Madonna joined her first band, BLADE used trains as his canvas and In 1981, 22-year-old Christopher Morris was...
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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Res Obscura
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Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
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The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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Flashbak
48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
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The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
a year ago
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
Flashbak
Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was...
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The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions. Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
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7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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8 of the Greatest Fighter Planes of World War II
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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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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 …...
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
How ASEAN Lost its Way
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Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
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Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
TheCollector
Sufism in the Ottoman Balkans
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Flashbak
László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and...
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László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
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We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
TheCollector
The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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History Today Feed
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/09/2024 - 08:37
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‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/09/2024 - 08:37
TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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Overcoming Bias
Beware Policy Abstraction
The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly...
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The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly confirm that the issues focused on there were biased in two key ways.
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch $1 Million
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Should We Be More Naked?
Is modesty too modern?
a year ago
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6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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What Was the Warsaw Pact?
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
JamesHoare
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:11
TheCollector
Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints
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Climate Vandal Painted Words in Red Next to a Civil War Exhibit
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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Classical Wisdom
Caligula's Forgotten Legacy
The Nemi Ships
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What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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History Today Feed
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
TheCollector
The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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Why Did Remedios Varo Paint So Many Self-Portraits?
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The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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Trying to Understand...
Externalising Our Hatreds.
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It's Ukraine and Gaza. Again.
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Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
Flashbak
British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos
Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge...
2 months ago
Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge came upon this album of pictures. “I find images that resonate with me and then with that I try to bring their characters to life in my work,” she tells us. “I bought the slides on...
Classical Wisdom
The Life of Aristotle
More Than A Philosopher
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TheCollector
Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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Flashbak
Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration
Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by...
2 months ago
Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by German-American-French artist and founder of the Dada movement Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976). The book, which marks the beginning of his close friendship with French poet Paul...
TheCollector
444 Days: The Story of the Iran Hostage Crisis
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TheCollector
American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for...
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Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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The world according to Garegnani
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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The Political Effects of the Vietnam War
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How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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Dreams of Space -...
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Who Was Vortigern?
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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Dreams of Space -...
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Global Inequality...
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Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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over a year ago
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
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What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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Can Violence Be Justified? A Philosophical Approach
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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