TheCollector
What Can You Expect to See at the Spring Temple Buddha?
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Heracles and the Lernaean Hydra: The Hero’s Second Labor
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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Grey Art Gallery at NYU Gets New Space and Name
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Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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Gap Week: December 1, 2023
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
a year ago
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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Frank Stewart’s Portraits of The American Journey – A Story of Jazz And Justice
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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China’s Communist Comic Books
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What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:14
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Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
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Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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Hundred Rabbits
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How Iran Won the West
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6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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Why Did Ukraine Make Stamps of Banksy’s Art?
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When Was D-Day?
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The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
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The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
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Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
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TheCollector
Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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Everything is (Somewhat) Connected.
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How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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Dreams of Space -...
The Conquest of Space (1962?)
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The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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Futarchy Futurism
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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What Is the History of the Hudson’s Bay Company?
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Flashbak
Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
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Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
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What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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Hundred Rabbits
tools ecosystem
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In...
over a year ago
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Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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Flashbak
A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000...
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What is the Eye of Ra?
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Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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5 Inspirational Women From the Second World War
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4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica
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This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome, running from the late fourth through the first century BCE, a period that, relevant for today’s discussion, covers the Middle and...
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
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Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
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a month ago
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The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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History Today Feed
Moving With the Times?
Moving With the Times?
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Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
6 months ago
Moving With the Times?
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Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
TheCollector
Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no...
a month ago
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11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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Trying to Understand...
The Wages Of Fear
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
8 months ago
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TheCollector
Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
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When The Music's Over ...
Turn out the lights.
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The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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What Was Operation Downfall?
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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Dreams of Space -...
Happy Journeys (1961)
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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...
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Elliott Erwitt: A Brilliant Photographer Who Took Great Snapshots
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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Do Words Matter?
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Was Henry VIII Really a Protestant?
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Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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Ancien Régime France: 4 Harsh Realities of Life Before the Revolution
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The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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The Anat Ebgi Gallery Expands to Tribeca
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What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
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History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
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A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
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Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
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Where Did Paul Cezanne Live?
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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A Collection of...
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Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
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Faces of Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
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What Was the Italian Risorgimento?
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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Was David Gulpilil Australia’s Most Important Actor?
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow?
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How the South Became Republican
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5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style
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The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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The Tudor War on Libel
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What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
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plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
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Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
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Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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Who Were the Axis Powers?
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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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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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Tattoos in the Bible: Can Christians Modify Their Bodies?
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10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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UN Committee Votes Against “At Risk” Designation for Stonehenge
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Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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Who Was the Fifth Beatle?
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This Underrated, Historic Small Town Is a Great Alternative to Austin, Texas
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
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Who Was George Eliot?
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Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller...
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An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller description:
Friedrick Mader, "the German Jules Verne" according to Sam Moskowitz, was a popular author of fantastic romances in post-World War One Germany. DISTANT WORLDS is his only novel...
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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Summary of changes for December
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How Magnus Maximus’ Forgotten Son Contributed to the Arthurian Legends
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Sotheby’s to Auction Its First Robot-Made Artwork
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How Did Solomon’s Temple Influence Worship?
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the promise of pancakes
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had...
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As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
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Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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Top Five Painters To Watch in 2024
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Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
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5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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Stained Glass Sold At Sotheby’s is Stolen From Notre Dame?
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“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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10 Facts About the Curious Calvin Coolidge: The Coolest President?
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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History Today Review of the Year
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