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Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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TheCollector
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The Death of a Mnemonist
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10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
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5 of Hildegard of Bingen’s Most Notable Works
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a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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over a year ago
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The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
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You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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a year ago
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The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
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The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
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8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for the annual Society for Military History conference coming at the end of next week. In an...
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What Is Appropriation in Art?
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Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the...
a year ago
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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Top Five Painters To Watch in 2024
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Sappho: The Lost Poetess
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
8 months ago
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
11 months ago
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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Was David Gulpilil Australia’s Most Important Actor?
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
2 weeks ago
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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Weekend Roundup
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
Flashbak
Trees at Night: Art Young’s Haunting Silhouettes, 1927
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands...
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“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. As a man is, so he sees.” – William Blake Arthur Henry Young – better known as Art Young (January 14, 1866–December 29, 1943) – saw humanity in the … Continue...
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How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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Stock Car Racing in 1972
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in...
a month ago
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1972, women only raced each other, hair was grown out crewcuts slicked and draped, and TV-led big business had yet to move in....
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The Inuit and the Canadian Arctic: A Brief History
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What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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Xerxes the Great
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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3 Beautiful Places in the South of England Tourists Neglect
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Weekend Roundup
The Early Years of Jesus
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Middle Kingdom Pyramids: The Lesser Known Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
7 months ago
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The making of pictures is to writing what laughing gas is to the Asian influenza.'” – Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse Than Death Kurt Vonnegut liked to draw. Other writers, notably J.R.R....
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10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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3 Dark Age Kings of Britain Confirmed by Archaeology
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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5 Military Geniuses From History
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Greco-Scythian Artifacts Seized by Spanish Police
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The Anat Ebgi Gallery Expands to Tribeca
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Global Inequality...
Why not Keynes?
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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Who Were the Maccabees?
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
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Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
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What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines....
10 months ago
Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines. A collection of his interviews, with the likes of Udo Kier, Divine, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Tura Satana, was published in the volume Dark Stars Rising: Conversations from the...
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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11 Amazing Rooms & Artworks in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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African History...
a brief note on African travel literature in history
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a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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Shocking Scandals: 10 of the Most Controversial US Elections
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
a year ago
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
African History...
The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the...
a year ago
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
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What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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Sophocles' Swansong
Oedipus at Colonus
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Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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Patterns in Humanity
Crime in the USA
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A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
Classical Wisdom
Tolkien and the Classics
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
a year ago
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Jews in the Roman Bathhouse
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
a year ago
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the...
a year ago
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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7 Famous Surrealist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
a year ago
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
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What Was the First Written Language?
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Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings?
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What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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Princess Diana ‘Black Sheep’ Jumper Sold for $1.1 M.
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What Can You Expect to See at the Spring Temple Buddha?
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Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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The Death of Clive of India
The Death of Clive of India
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Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
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The Death of Clive of India
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Who Was Vortigern?
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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Wed, 12/20/2023 - 00:00
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb)...
a year ago
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
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Summary of changes for November
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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
a year ago
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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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...
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5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park...
4 months ago
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
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Love and Death
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Spartan Training
The Ultimate Regime
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Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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