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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
Dreams of Space -...
Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
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Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
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When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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10 Small but Historic Countries You Didn’t Know About
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Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
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From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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Summary of changes for October
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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The Evolution of Socialism and Its Influence in the US
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
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Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
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Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
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What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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Summary of changes for July 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
4 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
Hakum, added two drawings to the...
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The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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Cj Hendry Lands in Miami With HOOPS Tree Installation
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10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that...
7 months ago
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
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Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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Weekend Roundup
Love and Death
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Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
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Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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Have A Weird Christmas With Our Album Of Vintage Photo Oddities
There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E....
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There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E. Jackson’s phenomenal collection of snapshots we see all kinds of unusual goings on. One Christmas card features a photo of the sender covered in rats; on another a man canoodles a...
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5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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Thu, 12/19/2024 - 09:05
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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Thu, 12/19/2024 - 09:05
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The Third World War Has Been Cancelled.
It was all too difficult, finally.
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It was all too difficult, finally.
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Upcoming Events
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Jean Cocteau: A Complete Insight (Bio & Art)
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What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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The Ancient Ozempic
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
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Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
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How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)
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How Should We Look at History?
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
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Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
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Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
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All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
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Dr Paul Cartledge on Alexander the Great’s Tomb, Netflix & More
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The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part II
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the...
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Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
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Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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Elton John Collection Goes on Sale After 21 Years
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Hendrik Verwoerd’s Life & Death: The Architect of Apartheid
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The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899)
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
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State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
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The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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Overcoming Bias
No Meta Status Orgs
In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to...
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In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to many specific medical conditions, and also to studying and reforming medicine in general, at a meta level.
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5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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Capoeira’s Incredible Roots: Brazil’s Unique Art Form
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9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art
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Patterns in Humanity
Global crime
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
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How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in...
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“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.” ― C.S. Lewis In his 1955 book Surprised by joy : the...
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Toxic Walls: Why Was Victorian Green Wallpaper So Deadly?
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What Is Conceptual Photography?
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Who Were the Toughest Women in the Old West?
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What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February...
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Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998) was known to his fans as Orion. To others he was Elvis Presley. Ellis appeared with many artists, including Loretta Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy...
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What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
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Self-representation in African art: the wall paintings of medieval Nubia. (ca. 700-1400)
an African portrait of an African society
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an African portrait of an African society
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Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
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Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review...
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This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
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Artist Seals Himself in Glass Bottle at Paris Olympic Stadium
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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6 Haunted Historical Sites That Will Scare Your Socks Off
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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...
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"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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The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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10 Must-Visit East Coast Historic Landmarks
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Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach,...
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The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
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Columbine 25 Years On
Columbine 25 Years On
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
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Columbine 25 Years On
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Who Is the Archangel Michael? Analyzing an Angel
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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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a brief note on themes in African art.
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
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Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
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German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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A Brief History of Mount Everest
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Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it...
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“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it begin now? – Charles Green Shaw This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) in the late 1920s or early 1930s (given the styling, it’s a...
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington...
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“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington on his Living Room project Time to step back inside British homes in the late 1980s with photographer Nick Waplington’s Living Room series. Published as a book in 1991, the...
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Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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Early Christian Poetry
A Forgotten Genre?
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Dionysus
The God of Wine!
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
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The kingdom of Ndongo and the Portuguese: Queen Njinga and the dynasty of women sovereigns...
The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
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The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps
“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that...
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“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that community can be brought in to exercise the way.” – Emma Hart Willard Emma Willard (February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was a trailblazing American educator who founded the first...
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What Is Hagia Sophia & Who Built It?
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La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned...
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‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street. I notice a kind of relaxed sensuality in many of the pictures. Time moved more slowly;...
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A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam
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Ode to a Grecian Tour
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5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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Who cares about Homer, anyway?
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
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What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
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What Is Banksy’s Real Identity? (5 Scenarios)
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Yuri's Night is April 12th!
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri...
a year ago
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri Gagarin 1st manned flight into space in Vostok 1, which completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. So this book is also from 1961 suggesting that children should dream of this...
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A social history of the Lamu city-state (1370-1885)
Journal of African cities chapter 5
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Journal of African cities chapter 5
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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Trying to Understand...
Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
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