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A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Niagara Falls?
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5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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Open Culture
What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre,...
2 weeks ago
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it’s claimed)...
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The Indigenous Architecture of the Cosmos in the Amazon
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a month ago
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
j.hoare
Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
a year ago
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
j.hoare
Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
Trying to Understand...
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BRICS and how international institutions work.
a month ago
BRICS and how international institutions work.
TheCollector
The Great Emu War: When Australians Lost to Flightless Birds
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Essential Greeks LIVE Webinar Times
Join this year's course for a strong foundation in the Classics
6 months ago
Join this year's course for a strong foundation in the Classics
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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6 months ago
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
7 months ago
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
TheCollector
Original ‘Keep Calm’ Posters Set to Sell for Thousands at Auction
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6 months ago
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Cecilia Beaux: Esteemed American Portraitist
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a year ago
Wrong Side of...
Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
a month ago
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
TheCollector
Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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3 weeks ago
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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10 months ago
Flashbak
Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you...
8 months ago
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you take a photograph of someone they are immortalised, they’re there forever. For me that was important, that you’re acknowledging people’s lives, and also contextualising people’s...
Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Rhetoric
The Power of Persuasion
4 months ago
TheCollector
Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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a year ago
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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4 months ago
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Here’s What to Know About the Oldest High School in America
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a month ago
Flashbak
The Death of A New Jersey Shopping Mall
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next...
6 months ago
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next few years as vacancy rates are increasing due to the pandemic, a slowed economy and increased online shopping. Photographer Phillip Buehler captured the death of the Wayne Hills mall...
TheCollector
Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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a year ago
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8 Must-See Highlights From London’s Soane Museum
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4 months ago
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How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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4 days ago
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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3 weeks ago
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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6 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
2 months ago
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
TheCollector
How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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11 months ago
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Who is Buried in the Valley of the Kings?
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
a year ago
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
TheCollector
What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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10 months ago
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5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/30/2024 - 10:39
2 months ago
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/30/2024 - 10:39
TheCollector
Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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a year ago
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Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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5 months ago
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7 Key Beliefs and Practices From Hasidic Judaism
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6 months ago
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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4 months ago
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Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition: What is an Active Life?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while...
9 months ago
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
TheCollector
What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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8 months ago
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10 Incredible Examples of European Symbolist Art
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a year ago
Hidden History
Museum Ship Destroyer USS Kidd
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a...
a month ago
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a Rear Admiral who was killed on board the Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Kidd served in both the Second World War and the Korean War. The destroyer USS Kidd was...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of...
11 months ago
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of Hellenistic warfare and the triumph of the Roman legion. Our core question is a really common one: why was the Roman legion able to decisively defeat the Hellenistic...
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18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Philosopher Kings
10 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made...
a year ago
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
TheCollector
Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
11 months ago
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
Trying to Understand...
Honesty: What's In It For Me?
First, do lots of harm.
a year ago
Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an...
a year ago
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
TheCollector
Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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4 months ago
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What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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5 months ago
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UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Would You Kill the Fat Man?
Ethical Philosophy for Fun
2 weeks ago
Ethical Philosophy for Fun
TheCollector
Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
11 months ago
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
TheCollector
Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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5 months ago
African History...
a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
6 months ago
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
TheCollector
11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
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9 months ago
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The Rise of Fascism in Italy & The Two “Black Years”
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
8 months ago
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
TheCollector
Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President
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a year ago
Flashbak
London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
“As long as I am alive, I will be a photographer. I will never retire” – Dorothy Bohm Dorothy Bohm...
9 months ago
“As long as I am alive, I will be a photographer. I will never retire” – Dorothy Bohm Dorothy Bohm (22 June 1924 – 15 March 2023) was born Dorothea Israelit in June 1924 in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), to a Jewish German-speaking family. In 1939 she was...
TheCollector
Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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5 months ago
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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a month ago
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Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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6 months ago
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Fall of Constantinople (1453): The Siege That Changed the World
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4 months ago
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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a year ago
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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5 months ago
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The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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8 hours ago
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Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early...
9 months ago
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
Classical Wisdom
The First Philosopher?
And the Boundless Universe
6 months ago
And the Boundless Universe
TheCollector
The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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7 months ago
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain?
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5 months ago
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What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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10 months ago
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Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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4 months ago
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What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda?
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8 months ago
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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a month ago
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How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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a year ago
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What Is Voguing?
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9 months ago
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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a year ago
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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2 months ago
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Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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a month ago
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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a year ago
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9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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11 months ago
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What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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10 months ago
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
6 months ago
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
TheCollector
What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Philosophy and Children
Event: THIS Saturday
9 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
goji no chaimu
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
over a year ago
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
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Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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a week ago
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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2 months ago
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Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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10 months ago
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Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language
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4 months ago
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History of Chariots: 10 Types from Ancient Cultures Explained
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a year ago
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At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical...
6 months ago
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
TheCollector
8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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9 months ago
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7 Prominent Photorealist Artists in the World Today
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a year ago
TheCollector
Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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8 months ago
weird medieval guys
Huge announcement: there’s a Weird Medieval Guys BOOK coming out soon!
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a year ago
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Classical Wisdom
Where did the time go?
Important Notice
4 weeks ago
TheCollector
How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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5 months ago
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Chili Pepper’s Fiery History: The Berry That Conquered the World
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a week ago
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Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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10 months ago
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