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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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100r.co, added electrical refit(portal for AC & DC...
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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Truth in the old myths
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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10 Women Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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History Today Feed
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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Open Culture
Do You Really Need to Take 10,000 Steps a Day?
We are regularly urged to take 10,000 steps a day. However, it turns out 10,000 isn’t exactly a...
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We are regularly urged to take 10,000 steps a day. However, it turns out 10,000 isn’t exactly a number anchored in science. Rather, it’s a product of marketing. According to a Harvard medical website, that figure goes back to “1965, when a Japanese company made a device named...
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When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of...
4 months ago
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of times, they weren’t that happy about it. I went to three or four Lollapalooza concerts with my camera when they were there – I busted into things not to supervise them but to take...
History Today Feed
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
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JamesHoare
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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Summary of changes for December
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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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
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What Was Dante’s Political Philosophy?
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Top 10 Depictions of the Annunciation in Art
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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Flashbak
New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
a year ago
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
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The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids?
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Flashbak
Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the...
a year ago
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
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The Colosseum’s Inaugural Games: 100 Days of Spectacles
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What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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5 Ancient Roman Monuments & How They Survived to the Modern Day
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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...
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Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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History Today Feed
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
A Collection of...
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Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards...
4 months ago
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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10 Crazy South African History Facts
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The History of Left-Handedness: Why Is This a Bias?
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Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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What Is Gnosticism?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
4 months ago
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
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No Way Out
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
a year ago
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
Dr Alun Withey
The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
a year ago
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
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Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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History Today Feed
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
2 months ago
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
TheCollector
10 Powerful Roman Emperor Names Still Used Today
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Classical Wisdom
How Should We Treat Our Enemies?
And how does it reflect on us?
a year ago
And how does it reflect on us?
Wrong Side of...
Keeping it in the Family
Britain’s Cousin Marriage Conundrum
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Britain’s Cousin Marriage Conundrum
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The Handwriting of 12 Famous Authors
“My spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”...
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“My spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.” ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh In The Handwriting of 12 Famous Authors we look at writers who communicated in long hand, and sometimes wrote their books in the same manner. For...
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Try to Control Nature?
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
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Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
Classical Wisdom
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Battle of the Historians
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Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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History Today Feed
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
Res Obscura
2,000-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past
Why artifacts like the Carmona Wine Urn, the Pazyryk Rug, and the Sword of Goujian are so important
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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Flashbak
The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of...
3 months ago
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of ikebana. The practice, which roughly translates to “making flowers come alive”, “the way of flowers” or the less poetic “flowers kept alive” uses flora to create specific human...
TheCollector
What Are the 8 Best Art Attractions in Budapest? (local tips)
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Amerigo Vespucci & The Naming of the Americas
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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The “Arch”: Who Was Desmond Tutu?
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Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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Global Inequality...
“To the Finland Station”
Trump as a tool of history
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Trump as a tool of history
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What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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Open Culture
Watch Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo and Gertie the Dinosaur, and Witness the Birth of Modern Animation...
“Considering that, in a cartoon, anything can happen that the mind can imagine, the comics have...
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“Considering that, in a cartoon, anything can happen that the mind can imagine, the comics have generally depicted pretty mundane worlds,” writes Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson. “Sure, there have been talking animals, a few spaceships and whatnot, but the comics have...
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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TheCollector
Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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Flashbak
Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most...
2 months ago
As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most likely die in the end. In the final instalment of the four-strong Joe and Petunia series, the British couple illustrate the dangers driving on bad tyres by driving into a tree. ...
History Today Feed
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
10 months ago
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
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
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
JamesHoare
Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
TheCollector
5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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Flashbak
Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also...
4 months ago
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also refers to my relationship to my country.’ — Harry Gruyaert Harry Gruyaert’s photographs show his preference for shooting in the street, where he can capture the unexpected, most...
Flashbak
‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull
“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many...
2 months ago
“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many inner city areas being bulldozed and instant slums being created on its outskirts. It seemed to have learnt nothing from the mistakes I had fought against during the previous decade...
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there...
12 months ago
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
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What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism?
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Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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TheCollector
Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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Global Inequality...
Freedom by North-West
The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
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The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
TheCollector
Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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What Is Banksy’s Real Identity? (5 Scenarios)
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The Philosophy of Time: Study the Nature of Past, Present, and Future
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Trying to Understand...
When Ukraine Is Over ...
How will they turn out the lights?
a week ago
How will they turn out the lights?
Overcoming Bias
Betrayed By Culture
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
3 months ago
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
Open Culture
Explore the Newly-Launched Public Domain Image Archive with 10,000+ Free Historical Images
We’ve often featured the work of the Public Domain Review here on Open Culture, and also various...
a week ago
We’ve often featured the work of the Public Domain Review here on Open Culture, and also various searchable copyright-free image databases that have arisen over the years. It makes sense that those two worlds would collide, and now they’ve done so in the form of the just-launched...
TheCollector
Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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TheCollector
La Llorona: Latin America’s Vengeful Ghost in Film & Literature
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What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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Tjaart’s Substack
The curious case of the missing period
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
11 months ago
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
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