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This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at Paradox Interactives ancient grand strategy game, Imperator: Rome, which covers (inter alia) the period of the collapse of the Roman Republic, which we generally call the Late...
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5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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What Was the First Written Language?
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Unveiling Romeo and Juliet: A Guide to Shakespeare’s Timeless Tragedy
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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Discover the Klondike Gold Rush: Frozen Riches
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How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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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)...
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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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The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019
It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not...
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It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not that it isn’t true for some of them, who tend to relegate themselves to smaller subgenres: consult Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music for a map of the sonic territory.) And it’s...
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7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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Songhai Empire: The Rise & Fall of Africa’s Biggest Empire
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Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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Weekend Roundup
Ancient Podcasts
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What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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My Substack in Other Languages.
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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Face to Face Exhibit Offers Face Time With Fayum Portraits
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Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an...
2 months ago
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
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Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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African History...
A history of the west African diaspora in Arabia and Jerusalem before 1900
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
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The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
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A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
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“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
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What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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Global Inequality...
Would Lenin have approved of the IMF?
An indispensable organization
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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The Roman Socrates
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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The Stars of Sun Records: 4 Famous Singers
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Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
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An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
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internet in paradise
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging...
over a year ago
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef.
Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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Collector Chris Levett Is Selling His Huge Trove of Ancient Armor
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Trying to Understand...
The West is Weak Where it Matters ...
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
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...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
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Who was Thorkell the Tall?
Who was Thorkell the Tall?
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5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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African History...
a brief note on the history of Africans exploring their own continent
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
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plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
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4 Techniques of 19th-Century Photography You Should Know
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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The empire of Samori Ture on the eve of colonialism (1870-1898)
a revolution with a contested legacy.
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a revolution with a contested legacy.
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What Are the Five French Republics?
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those...
9 months ago
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
African History...
a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world.
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
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On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
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Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s...
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These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
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Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
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Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
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Religion in the Olympics
The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
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The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
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The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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Toxic Walls: Why Was Victorian Green Wallpaper So Deadly?
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African History...
A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
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In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
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History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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Trying to Understand...
Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
Some people never grow up.
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Some people never grow up.
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What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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Trying to Understand...
If We Had More Than a Hammer ...
We might not be in this mess.
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We might not be in this mess.
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
a year ago
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
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The Night of the Long Knives: How the Nazis Purged the SA
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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Dr Alun Withey
Beard Fashions and Class
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
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Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
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8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau
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weird medieval guys
Huge announcement: there’s a Weird Medieval Guys BOOK coming out soon!
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Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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Art of the Etruscans
Romans before the Romans
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Res Obscura
Centuries of Childhood
The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories...
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The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories about it?
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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England’s Museum Collections Missing More Than 1,700 Objects
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African History...
A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
demystifying an ancient African society
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demystifying an ancient African society
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What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
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We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
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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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The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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Overcoming Bias
No Meta Status Orgs
In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to...
a month ago
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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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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When Did World War II Start and End?
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Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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Wrong Side of...
Inside the Catholic State
The world that created Caravaggio
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The world that created Caravaggio
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What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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10 Historic Towns in Oregon Worth Visiting
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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Who Won the Battle of Perryville?
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might...
8 months ago
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might have heard that Ernest Hemingway wrote a six-word short story in response to a $10 bet that so few words could make the reader cry. Hemingway won with: “For sale: Baby shoes. Never...
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William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads....
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“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
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The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
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In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
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