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Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
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Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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Les Soixante-Huitards: The French Student Demonstrations of May 1968
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Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
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Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
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Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
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First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
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Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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France’s Long March Against Racism
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Who Won the Battle of Nashville?
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Here’s What to Know About the Oldest High School in America
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The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander and the Roman legions. Last time, we looked at the Hellenistic army as a complete system, incorporating...
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met
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Francis Bacon Portrait of George Dyer to Sell at Sotheby’s
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Hundred Rabbits
rainy with a chance of mosquitoes
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign...
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Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign and just as wild, except instead of hungry lizards there are mosquitoes, also known as the vampires of the Marquesas.
Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
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Should We Try to Control Nature?
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Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” Performed by a Choir of 4,000 Singers
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Throughout the years, we’ve featured performances of Choir!Choir!Choir!–a large amateur choir from Toronto that meets weekly and sings their hearts out. You’ve seen them sing Prince’s “When Doves Cry,” Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” (to honor Chris Cornell), and Patti Smith’s...
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La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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a complete history of Mombasa ca. 600-1895.
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What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
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Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
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On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
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$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
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Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
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5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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Hundred Rabbits
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Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
over a year ago
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination
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Ancient Marble Floor Restored Underwater in Italy
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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Global Inequality...
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The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
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St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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7 of the Most Popular Hats in History
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TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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Bananas & Brutality: The Twisted History of United Fruit
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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Who Is Kiki Smith?
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A History of the Free City of Danzig (Now Gdansk)
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The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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The Longest Construction Projects in History: Why Sagrada Família, the Milan Duomo, Greek Temples &...
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African History...
A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala.
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It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies, according to an authoritative study by Eugenia Herbert.
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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New Study May Reveal Stonehenge’s Mysterious Origins
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Niagara Falls?
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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work. Not that he’d been idle: in that same era, while working for the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, he “developed, organized, and directed productions for festival pageants, triumphal...
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
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Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
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Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army
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Patterns in Humanity
Does poverty cause violent crime?
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The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like?
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8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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Who Is the Real Banksy? Rumors Behind the Street Artist
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The KGB After Stalin
The KGB After Stalin
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The KGB After Stalin
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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Summary of changes for April
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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
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The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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Part One, anyway. More next week.
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Uncovering 5 Portraits From the Renaissance
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Why Early Modern Books Are So Beautiful
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10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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What Is Marcel Duchamp’s Most Famous Painting?
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Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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Dreams of Space -...
Space Ship to the Moon (1952)
Happy New Year!
A "Space Ship to the Moon" is your present for a new year. I really like the...
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Happy New Year!
A "Space Ship to the Moon" is your present for a new year. I really like the illustrations in this book. The story is OK but the visions of spacecraft, a space station and mining on the Moon are worth seeing. This is a relatively low cost book used so if you like...
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Lucian Freud Nude to Make $20 Million Auction Debut
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Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Base (1959)
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base"...
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Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base" brings me a sense of excitement and nostalgia. In fact one of my treasures is my talking Dr. Evil Doll that says "Welcome to my moon base".
Nephew, William and Chester, Michael....
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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...
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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...
Hidden History
The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at...
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In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at Kirtland Air Force Base just outside of Albuquerque NM. In January 1950, President Harry Truman announced that the United States would begin a crash program to develop and deploy a weapon...
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What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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Prometheus: The Titan Who Defied Zeus and Created Humanity
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London’s Old Master Sales Squeak by Expectations
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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Artemisia of Caria
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Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
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Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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