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The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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over a year ago
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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain...
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Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
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Summary of changes for March
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 March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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Sufism in the Ottoman Balkans
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Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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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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Who Was Hilma af Klint? 7 Facts About the Pioneer of Abstract Art
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
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Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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Calm in the Face of Crisis
Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
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France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
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Again. In a manner of speaking.
African History...
How Africans wrote their own history: Debates and dialogues between four west African historians in...
Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
Dreams of Space -...
The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed...
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Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed it :) . It was a premium with Mickey Mouse Weekly magazine. Evidently the magazine came with some pages that you could fold up into a tiny book. The others I have found evidence of...
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Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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African History...
A history of Zanzibar before the Omanis (600-1873)
Journal of African cities chapter 7
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Journal of African cities chapter 7
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8 Works of Paul Klee You Should Know
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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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
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What Ere Iyaric and “I and I”? Rastafarian Resistance Through Language
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African History...
a brief note on Africa's Scientific Manuscripts
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
a year ago
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
Hidden History
The Last Day of World War One
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
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At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
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A Wasting Asset?
Europe turns away from America.
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Europe turns away from America.
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Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
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The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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Overcoming Bias
Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
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Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
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Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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Grey Art Gallery at NYU Gets New Space and Name
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Socrates and the Soul
And the Immortal Soul
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Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, added back corrected chapters 1-7 to...
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
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“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was drawing to a close” – Kathryn McCool on life in New Zealand in the 1980s Kathryn McCool was 18 when her father gave her a camera (a Ricoh SLR) he’d bought at auction. As Kathryn …...
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Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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Secrets of the Sirens
The Original Femme Fatales?
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The Original Femme Fatales?
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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Weekend Roundup
Tolkien and Plato
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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The 4 Most Controversial Historical Events from the Past 200 Years
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The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
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The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
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Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World
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Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England. “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
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Should We Be More Naked?
Is modesty too modern?
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Remedios Varo: A Female Surrealist Painter Who Isn’t Frida Kahlo
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7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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What Is the History of the Hudson’s Bay Company?
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4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism
Heraclitus against Parmenides
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Heraclitus against Parmenides
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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Tattoos in the Bible: Can Christians Modify Their Bodies?
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
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First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text book made from tempera and gold leaf on parchment. Shelf marked Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 0457, the work is a Latin translation of Avicenna’s Canon medicinae, one of...
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:14
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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How Can We Handle Anxiety?
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
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Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
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The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triump, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
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This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Romans and the heirs of Alexander, asking the question, “What can defeat a Macedonian sarisa-phalanx?” Last time, we started looking at...
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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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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A Fistful of Clockwork Oranges
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What's it going to be, then?
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$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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How Does Mona Hatoum Turn Ordinary Objects into Artworks?
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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African History...
The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted...
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The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted in one of the continent's longest-standing conflicts, which threatens to destroy the country's social fabric and its historical heritage. Just as the plight of modern Darfur...
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Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
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Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
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Who Are the Klu Klux Klan?
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How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from...
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Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Insects’ Christmas, above. In addition to offering brief respite from the chaos of consumerism and modern expectations, this...
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What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It)
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Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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Global Inequality...
On general futility of political discussions with people
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people...
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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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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
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Collectible Toys Worth $1000s: Rare Finds With High Prices
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Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
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Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
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Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
a year ago
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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6 Inventions to Thank the Aztec, Maya, & Inca For
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Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments?
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How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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What Are the Key Influences That Shaped the French New Wave?
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Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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Van Dyck Rare Drawing Could Sell for $1.2 Million at Christie’s
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Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
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Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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