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Summary Of Changes
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One, Two (1965)
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
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DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
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Beware the Lides of March
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVa: Philip V
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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TheCollector
10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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a year ago
TheCollector
4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
The world according to Garegnani
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar...
8 months ago
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
TheCollector
Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/28/2024 - 11:18
4 months ago
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/28/2024 - 11:18
TheCollector
Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Conceptual Photography?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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7 months ago
TheCollector
From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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8 months ago
TheCollector
10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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12 months ago
TheCollector
The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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3 months ago
African History...
A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala.
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies,...
4 months ago
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies, according to an authoritative study by Eugenia Herbert.
TheCollector
What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques
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3 weeks ago
Flashbak
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...
a month ago
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
TheCollector
5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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3 months ago
TheCollector
End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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a year ago
TheCollector
11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case
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a month ago
TheCollector
The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of Thanksgiving?
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a year ago
Flashbak
The Death of A New Jersey Shopping Mall
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next...
7 months ago
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next few years as vacancy rates are increasing due to the pandemic, a slowed economy and increased online shopping. Photographer Phillip Buehler captured the death of the Wayne Hills mall...
TheCollector
What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
China’s Communist Comic Books
China’s Communist Comic Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
4 weeks ago
China’s Communist Comic Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
Heracles Slays the Stymphalian Birds: The Hero’s Sixth Labor
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a week ago
TheCollector
What Is Anti-Natalism?
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a year ago
TheCollector
A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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3 months ago
African History...
a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world.
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
8 months ago
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
TheCollector
Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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a year ago
TheCollector
11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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6 months ago
Flashbak
Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
5 months ago
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
TheCollector
Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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5 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
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 March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r, released a guide to diesel Engine Care.
Wunderland Rabbits,...
TheCollector
‘Ain Ghazal: One of the Oldest Places in Human Civilization
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
11 months ago
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
TheCollector
Remedios Varo: A Female Surrealist Painter Who Isn’t Frida Kahlo
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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a month ago
Classical Wisdom
Have We Become Anti-Human?
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
a year ago
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
Flashbak
Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
9 months ago
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
TheCollector
Mudslinging & Negative Campaigning: A Look at US Election Dirty Tricks
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Coach Rusty’s Art Goes Interactive With Top Tier Authentics
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10 months ago
CrimethInc.
Announcing The Beautiful Idea : A New Podcast
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media...
2 weeks ago
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media platforms on a new podcast, The Beautiful Idea, which will offer reporting and analysis of current events. The first episode of The Beautiful Idea has just been released!
In their own...
A Collection of...
Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis...
a year ago
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis verba fecit… This week we’re taking a brief look, by ACOUP Senate request, at Greek and Phoenician colonization in the ancient Mediterranean. In particular, the focus requested was...
African History...
A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
a year ago
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
History Today Feed
The Value of Wills to Historians
The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
8 months ago
The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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TheCollector
Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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3 months ago
TheCollector
8 Things You Didn’t Know About Eva Perón
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a week ago
TheCollector
Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Maccabees?
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Socrates' Wayward Student
...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
a year ago
...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
TheCollector
Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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3 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Beyond Mars (1960)
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
a year ago
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps in space including: solar sailing, travel to Saturn via long distance trips to the outer solar system, multi-year hibernation travel, hydroponics, and visiting other solar...
TheCollector
The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It)
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Berlin Science Week? Everything You Need to Know
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The 5 Most Ridiculous Ways the CIA Tried & Failed to Kill Fidel Castro
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
The Dutch Throne in an Exhibition for the First Time
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a year ago
TheCollector
Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Interview with Giulio Dalvit: TheCollector Chats with Frick Curator
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Texas Perfect for Retirement
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Andromeda: The Beauty of the Mediterranean
Take a Santa Pause
a week ago
TheCollector
La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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a month ago
TheCollector
Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
4 Feminist Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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9 months ago
TheCollector
8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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a month ago
History Today Feed
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
4 months ago
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
TheCollector
Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Empress Theodora
Saint or Sinner?
3 months ago
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...
over a year ago
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...
History Today Feed
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
8 months ago
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
TheCollector
5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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3 weeks ago
Flashbak
Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at...
3 months ago
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England. “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
TheCollector
5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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TheCollector
Frida Kahlo: 6 Facts About Her Life, Art, & Legacy
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago....
a year ago
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
TheCollector
Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
Changes in income distributions in China, India and the United States, 2018-23
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
2 months ago
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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a month ago
TheCollector
Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Why Is Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
War Is Complicated.
And not just the fighting bit.
a year ago
And not just the fighting bit.
TheCollector
Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of the Mind
a year ago
TheCollector
The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of Cartography: The Importance of Maps in Civilization
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
The Death of Caspar Hauser
The Death of Caspar Hauser
j.hoare
Sun, 12/17/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
The Death of Caspar Hauser
j.hoare
Sun, 12/17/2023 - 00:00
CrimethInc.
Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the...
3 weeks ago
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the struggle for independence from Russian rule remains the chief force driving the popular mobilization that has been growing over the past several months. Yet today’s movement points to a...
TheCollector
Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Cultural Sites in New York City You Should See
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a month ago
TheCollector
Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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10 months ago
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