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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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What Is Anxiety to Soren Kierkegaard?
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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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...
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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...
Classical Wisdom
Origins of Latin Literature
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
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...and the Master of Roman Comedy
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation?
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China’s Communist Comic Books
China’s Communist Comic Books
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Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
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China’s Communist Comic Books
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TheCollector
Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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Dreams of Space -...
World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It...
a year ago
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
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Samnite Wars: How Rome Conquered the Samnites (History & Aftermath)
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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...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
8 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added chainplates, knots, washing dishes, receiving mail, updated our notes on diy carbonation system, and refrigeration.
Uxn, added 2 new commands...
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Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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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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German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
9 months ago
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
Classical Wisdom
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?
History Today Feed
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
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How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
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Flashbak
Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
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The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
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The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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Why Did the 1904 Olympic Marathon End in Disaster?
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Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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What Was Organization Todt?
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Classical Wisdom
LIVE Event: What is Plagiarism?
With Harvard Professor James Hankins and 'History of Philosophy without any gaps' Peter Adamson.
11 months ago
With Harvard Professor James Hankins and 'History of Philosophy without any gaps' Peter Adamson.
TheCollector
Who Were the Samaritans?
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings?
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Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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Who Is Kiki Smith?
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
2 weeks ago
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
TheCollector
5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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Trying to Understand...
In Praise of the Preterite
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
a year ago
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
History Today Feed
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
TheCollector
Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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US Returns 600 Stolen Artifacts to Italy
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Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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8 Spots for Exploring Indigenous Art in the American Southwest
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Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
a year ago
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
Trying to Understand...
Everything is (Somewhat) Connected.
But some things are more connected than others.
a year ago
But some things are more connected than others.
TheCollector
Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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African History...
Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus...
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Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
African History...
a brief note on European pirates and African states during the 'golden age of piracy.'
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
TheCollector
The Soldier with a Secret: Who Was Sarah Emma Edmonds?
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1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
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What Are the Recurring Symbols in Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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Hades
The God of the Dead
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Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Auctioned for $6 Million
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African History...
The complete history of Kano (999-1903)
journal of African cities chapter 9
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journal of African cities chapter 9
Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
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On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various times by Morris, John Prine, and Marianne Faithfull.
TheCollector
Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Grimgrains, published a tofu from soy flour recipe, and reduced...
Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
a year ago
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
TheCollector
5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Base (1959)
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base"...
a year ago
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base" brings me a sense of excitement and nostalgia. In fact one of my treasures is my talking Dr. Evil Doll that says "Welcome to my moon base".
Nephew, William and Chester, Michael....
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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Discover the Lost Culture of San Agustín in Colombia
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Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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Trying to Understand...
The Past Is Another Country.
A book review from the future.
5 months ago
A book review from the future.
TheCollector
Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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Discover Norman Rockwell’s America (& His Legacy)
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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
6 months ago
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
TheCollector
Who Was Achilles? Greek Mythology’s Greatest Warrior
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a year ago
Flashbak
1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
8 months ago
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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The Devil’s Dictionary: The 50-ish Best Descriptions From The Cynic’s Word Book, 1906
Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka...
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Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka The Cynic’s Word Book, consists of common words followed by humorous and satirical definitions. The book was a compilation of Bierce’s columns for The Wasp (1881–1860 plus) and The...
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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
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Trying to Understand...
Little People With Agency.
No, not that Agency.
3 months ago
TheCollector
Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:14
6 months ago
On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:14
Flashbak
Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of...
a week ago
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh. When I was just a baby my mama told...
TheCollector
5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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Hidden History
The Last Day of World War One
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
a month ago
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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Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city...
8 months ago
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city before there was a Selfridges or Harvey Nichols, and no Bullring as we know it today. Birmingham was a place of subway shops and underground passages that are now filled in and...
TheCollector
The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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What Are the 4 Main Jewish Sects?
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
4 months ago
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
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