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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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Odysseus in the Underworld
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
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Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician....
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an...
3 months ago
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
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Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay?
Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
7 months ago
Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
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....
over a year ago
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...
TheCollector
How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
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James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
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Beneath the Waves...
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19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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St. Nick and Saturnalia
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How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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Germanus of Auxerre and His Connection to Arthurian Legends
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African History...
A history of the south-western Saharan towns of Tichitt, Walata, Wadan and Chinguetti (800-1912)
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
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Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
TheCollector
Modernism: The Genre Explained in 5 Facts and 14 Artworks
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4 Most Famous Alien Abduction Claims
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African History...
A history of the Lozi kingdom. ca. 1750-1911.
state and society in south-central Africa
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state and society in south-central Africa
TheCollector
What Is Appropriation in Art?
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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Who Were the Maccabees?
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How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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What Was Cultural Life in the Weimar Republic Like?
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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10 Women Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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Andrei Molodkin Holds Art Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life
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Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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Should We Be More Naked?
Is modesty too modern?
a year ago
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What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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8 months ago
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In Defence of Boring Books
In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
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In Defence of Boring Books
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Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
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Aristotle's Poetics
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7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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Can Any Good Come From War?
The Tragedy of the Trenches
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The Tragedy of the Trenches
TheCollector
Thefts From Heritage Sites in the U.K. Are Rising
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Dido: Queen of Carthage
Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
a year ago
Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
Global Inequality...
Powerful, but within the orbit of the empire
A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
12 months ago
A review of Clinton Fernandes’ “Subimperial power“
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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African History...
a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
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A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
Dr Alun Withey
The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners,...
over a year ago
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
TheCollector
10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
What Is the History of Valentine’s Day?
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444 Days: The Story of the Iran Hostage Crisis
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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What Were the Major Battles and Conflicts of the Medieval Period?
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History Today Feed
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
10 months ago
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
TheCollector
10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit
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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...
TheCollector
What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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TheCollector
What Was the Chaco War?
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Flashbak
Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded...
a month ago
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded by Ellis O. Jones, a former associate editor of Life magazine and editor of Ladies’ Home Journal who once called for the US Army and Navy to be disbanded and went on to head the...
TheCollector
The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
7 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Frances Bay, Yuculta and Dent Rapids, Shoal Bay, Port Neville, Telegraph Cove, Port McNeill, Fury Cove, Prince Rupert, B.C. north coast...
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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Lucio Fontana Piece Could Set Auction Record at Sotheby’s
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
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These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
10 months ago
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
Trying to Understand...
The Wages Of Fear
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
8 months ago
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
TheCollector
4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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What Is the Didache?
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The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France
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4 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
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...
10 months ago
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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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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Dutch & Flemish Vanitas Paintings: A Theme for the North’s Golden Age
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Classical Wisdom
The Great Flood
...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
10 months ago
...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
TheCollector
6 Places to Visit in Cape Town for History & Art Lovers
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African History...
A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900.
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies...
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Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies across the continent during the bronze age.
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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5 Quotes by Sartre Explained: What These Words Mean for Us Today
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New Alphonse Mucha Museum to Open in Prague
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Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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Global Inequality...
The end of the great order under the Heaven
A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
4 months ago
A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
Open Culture
John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The...
2 weeks ago
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
Flashbak
Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black...
2 months ago
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
Classical Wisdom
Should We Own Stuff?
The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
a year ago
The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
TheCollector
Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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6 months ago
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
8 months ago
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
TheCollector
Who Is the Father of Pentecostalism?
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3 months ago
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
TheCollector
7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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11 months ago
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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9 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are...
over a year ago
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
TheCollector
Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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Rare Exhibition of Roman Marbles Heads to North America
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The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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4 months ago
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How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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2 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The End of Power Projection?
We can't get there from here, anymore.
a year ago
We can't get there from here, anymore.
TheCollector
10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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a year ago
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Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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10 Curious Facts About Johnny Cash
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8 months ago
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