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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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Hundred Rabbits
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
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Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
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Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
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This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the...
a year ago
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
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Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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What is Digital Art? A Brief History and Tips for Collecting
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Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ Targeted Again After Protestors Jailed
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Bob Ross’s First Completed Work Is Up for Sale for $9.85 M.
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is”...
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“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is” – Langston Hughes, The Sweet Flypaper of Life The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955), a collaboration between photographer Roy DeCarava and poet Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 –...
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
2 months ago
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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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,...
6 months ago
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...
Classical Wisdom
Aeneas: Founder of Rome
The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
10 months ago
The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
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Was Henry VIII Really a Protestant?
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Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ Heads to Auction
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What Was Operation Ichi-Go?
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.
You don't need to know that.
9 months ago
You don't need to know that.
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Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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3 months ago
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People of the Twentieth Century: the Ideal German, the Nazi and the Persecuted Jew
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the...
5 months ago
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times.” – August Sander, creator of Menschen des 20 Jahrhunderts (People of The 20th Century) What you see above is a picture of Arnold Katz and Benjamin (Benno) Katz being...
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The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white...
a week ago
This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails. A leading figure in early American abstraction, Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) was an American painter, poet,...
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Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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8 of the Greatest Fighter Planes of World War II
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5 Deadliest Sword Designs
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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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...
a week 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...
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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Who Is Ai Weiwei?
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s...
4 months ago
In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009)review of La Jetée, the time-travel short by Chris Marker about time and memory which was receiving its first London screenings and his essay ‘The...
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Remedios Varo: A Female Surrealist Painter Who Isn’t Frida Kahlo
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African History...
Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper...
2 weeks ago
In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper reported that “The king shows himself only once a year to his people, going out of his court on horseback, accompanied by three or four hundred noblemen on horseback.”
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The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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What Are the Challenges of Creating ‘True Crime’ Stories?
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The Balloon Museum Opens in London
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Global Inequality...
Abundance, capitalism and climate change
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where...
8 months ago
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
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Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a...
a year ago
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
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What Are Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Top Achievements?
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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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Classical Wisdom
The Life of Aristotle
More Than A Philosopher
11 months ago
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
Res Obscura
Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
a year ago
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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The Met Reveals Design for New Modern and Contemporary Wing
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10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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9 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post...
a month ago
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
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9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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Here’s How AI Completed Keith Haring’s Work
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
GrimGrains,...
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Discover the Klondike Gold Rush: Frozen Riches
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
When The Music's Over ...
Turn out the lights.
9 months ago
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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History Today Feed
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
6 months ago
The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:20
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French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World?
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What Is the Will to Power?
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Patterns in Humanity
Crime in the USA
A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
11 months ago
A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
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3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam
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The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
a year ago
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
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The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
One Of My Essays In Dutch.
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and...
11 months ago
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
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French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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What Are the 6 Tallest Mountains in Alaska?
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying...
5 months ago
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying on the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian province of Lampung, Krakatoa was hit by a series of four massive eruptions – the equivalent to 200...
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Iakim Volkov’s Wedding: An Illustration of a Complicated History
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Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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What’s the Best Time to See Mount Fuji?
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Res Obscura
Res Obscura is now on Substack
Three years late, but historians are always late
a year ago
Three years late, but historians are always late
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Julius Caesar: From General to Dictator (Bio, Battles, & Death)
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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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The American Patriot War: “The Americans Are Coming!”
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The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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a year ago
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Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of...
a week ago
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh. When I was just a baby my mama told...
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Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
Another of my essays in French.
a week ago
Another of my essays in French.
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History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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4 months ago
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/11/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/11/2024 - 07:00
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How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
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It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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3 weeks ago
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