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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
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Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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Cold Snapshots – Vintage Holiday Fun in the Snow and Ice
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Moving With the Times?
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When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres tour, Blondie got the call. Georgia-based southern rockers Stillwater couldn’t play. So would the New Yorkers deliver what 18,000 fans of the Canadian rockers packed into the...
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A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
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Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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What Is the History of the Guitar?
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
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13 Surprising Facts About William Shakespeare
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6 Outrageous Whaling Stories
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
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Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
GrimGrains, added a quick grilled cheese recipe.
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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Global Inequality...
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Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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History Today Feed
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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A Collection of...
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The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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Frick Collection Announces April 2025 Reopening
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Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
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Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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TheCollector
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIa: How a Legion Fights
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What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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Dreams of Space -...
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My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
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Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
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The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Dress Codes?
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That's a good question.
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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
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How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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Patterns in Humanity
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How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
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Stock Car Racing in 1972
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How Mexico Fought Franco
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Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
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The American Patriot War: “The Americans Are Coming!”
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a brief note on the history of indigenous and foreign religions in African history, and the Kimpasi...
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MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
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France’s Long March Against Racism
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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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History Today Feed
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
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Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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Francisco Goya Research Center Launches in New York City
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Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
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The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
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Phoolan Devi, Bandit Queen of India
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
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When Was the Era of Japan’s Bakufu?
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Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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Overcoming Bias
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian
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7 African Myths About Animals
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Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
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How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
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What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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The Two Trojan Wars
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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How to Celebrate the Love of Learning
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
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Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
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Why drug history?
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Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
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5 Inspirational Women From the Second World War
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Beware the Lides of March
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Musée Rodin to Launch Shanghai Outpost in September
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Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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Sex Before Sex Education
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The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
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An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire country. By the 1870s, the once-rural agrarian United States was beginning to emerge as an industrial power. The Civil War had spurred the rapid development of industry such as iron...
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HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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Johnny Cash: A Bio of Country Ballads & Boisterous Song
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historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
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4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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