A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
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This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the triumph of the Roman legions in the third and second century over the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we looked at some of the operational and strategic...
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The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February...
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Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998) was known to his fans as Orion. To others he was Elvis Presley. Ellis appeared with many artists, including Loretta Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy...
Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
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5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
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10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos
Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge...
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Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge came upon this album of pictures. “I find images that resonate with me and then with that I try to bring their characters to life in my work,” she tells us. “I bought the slides on...
African History...
A complete history of the old city of Gao ca. 700-1898.
Journal of African cities: chapter 12
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Journal of African cities: chapter 12
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The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the...
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For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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Yuri's Night is April 12th!
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri...
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Dream About Gagarin (1961)
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Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone...
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“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz We’re back looking at teenagers at home and in their bedrooms in the 1980 an 1990s. We’ve been back there before, checking our the snapshot …...
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Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages
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Typhoons and mold
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For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
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A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore)
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What Are the Challenges of Creating ‘True Crime’ Stories?
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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...
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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...
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Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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Wrong Side of...
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What Was the War of Jenkins’ Ear?
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5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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How Should We Look at History?
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The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
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the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
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The Night of the Long Knives: How the Nazis Purged the SA
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The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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How to Read Film Like a Language
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
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6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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Thomas Gainsborough: 7 Facts You Need to Know
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
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How Should We Treat Our Enemies?
And how does it reflect on us?
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And how does it reflect on us?
Dreams of Space -...
What the Moon Is Like (1963)
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
a year ago
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again.
What the Moon is Like is another book by the children's science writer Franklyn Branley. He wrote many children's non-fiction books with a variety of...
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Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
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Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
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Newell Convers Wyeth Painting: From $4 to $191,000
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s...
5 months ago
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
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Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
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Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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History as Tragedy?
A Different View of Thucydides
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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
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Dreams of Space -...
Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a...
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Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a nice gift box with a space quiz. It is a little bit of an odd astronomy book. The illustration are very beautiful and if you notice each planet has smaller people in the picture to...
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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: Racism on a Federal Level
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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The Balloon Museum Opens in London
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
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Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
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What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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Odysseus in the Underworld
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Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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J.S. Bach’s Life and Travels in Germany
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What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
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People of the Twentieth Century: the Ideal German, the Nazi and the Persecuted Jew
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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Summary of changes for October
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Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
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Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
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The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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over a year ago
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What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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Jamestown: The Myth & Mystery of America’s First Permanent Colony
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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What is Peter Singer’s Principle of Equal Consideration?
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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Trying to Understand...
L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
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Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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Putting Pirates on Trial
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The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
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Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
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“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage....
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What Is the Will to Power?
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African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom.
government in central Africa.
a year ago
government in central Africa.
History Today Feed
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
j.hoare
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
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The True Knights Templar
The True Knights Templar
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Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
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Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
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What Are the Five French Republics?
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5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a...
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“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
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7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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Celebrating Diversity at The National Mall’s Outdoor Show
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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and...
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László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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New Warhol Exhibition Reveals Rare Art Treasures
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Fall of Berlin: How WWII Ended in Europe
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What Is the History of the Hudson’s Bay Company?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2023
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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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added charging electronics, solar cooking and solar...
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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Wrong Side of...
Your favourite half-British president
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Global Inequality...
Marx Truncated
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A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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Italian Police Thwart “Tomb Raiders” at Etruscan Burial Site
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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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Principality of Sealand: The Smallest Nation in the World?
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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Weekend Roundup
Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
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Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
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The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
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The Political Effects of the Vietnam War
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From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Dr Alun Withey
Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century....
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Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century. During this period, a whole range of retailers advertised their goods and services to appeal to ladies and gentlemen of taste. Without discussing anything so base as price or...
Trying to Understand...
Service to what nation?
Why people should stop talking about conscription.
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Why people should stop talking about conscription.
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Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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What Is the Philosophy Behind Zen Gardens?
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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African History...
a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa.
a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
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a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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Washburn Gallery in NY Permanently Closes After Half a Century
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Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a...
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Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a photography series of everyday people at work and at home in urban America, having been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 as New American Life. In his introduction to...
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What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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Bananas & Brutality: The Twisted History of United Fruit
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African History...
The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)
Journal of African cities chapter 8
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Journal of African cities chapter 8
History Today Feed
New Year, Old Books
New Year, Old Books
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New Year, Old Books
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French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
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What is needed to stop violent cycles?
Trying to Understand...
Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.
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You don't need to know that.
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What Are Conlangs?
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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Origins of Latin Literature
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
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...and the Master of Roman Comedy
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Dionysus
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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What Is Thatcherism?
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
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Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
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A History Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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4 Most Famous Alien Abduction Claims
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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10 Curious Facts About Johnny Cash
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Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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Three Early Basquiats to Sell at Phillips This Spring
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa,...
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This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) look at the how the Roman military system and its manipular legion were able to defeat the Hellenistic military system and its Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and...
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What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
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The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
African History...
Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
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an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
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The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
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Weekend Roundup
Plutarch and Pleasure
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What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of...
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In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
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Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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What Is Theodicy?
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Pace Gallery to Represent Paul Thek Estate
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,”...
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Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
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The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and...
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Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
The Death of Caspar Hauser
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Sun, 12/17/2023 - 00:00
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism?
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel
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Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE)
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
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Journal of African cities: chapter 15
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8 Must-See Highlights From London’s Soane Museum
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Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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Death of a Turkey Legend
Death of a Turkey Legend
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Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition: What is an Active Life?
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Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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Abstract Expressionist Alfred Leslie Through 7 Paintings
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What Government Governs Best?
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
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Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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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
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the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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The Musée d’Orsay Held An Immersive Van Gogh Show
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5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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