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9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.
You don't need to know that.
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You don't need to know that.
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Europe's absent-minded revolution
Christopher Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', 15 years on
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Christopher Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', 15 years on
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7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the...
a year ago
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
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Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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Honesty: What's In It For Me?
First, do lots of harm.
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Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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The Tears of Strangers are only water
On the limits of empathy
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How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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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...
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
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10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
4 months ago
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
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Ancient Greek Art
Through the Ages
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
3 months ago
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
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A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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10 Curious Facts About Johnny Cash
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What Was the Warsaw Pact?
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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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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The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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Final Call
Class Begins Tomorrow
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
5 months ago
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
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Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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One Of My Essays In Dutch.
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and...
11 months ago
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 -...
9 months ago
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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Tue, 03/26/2024 - 09:54
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Are There Still Lepers? The History of Leprosy in 5 Chapters
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Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read
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6 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron...
a year ago
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron Age Mediterranean (focusing on the period from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC): the humble, effective and ubiquitous thrusting spear. In particular, I want to discuss the striking...
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Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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African History...
A history of the Damagaram sultanate of Zinder: ca. 1730-1899.
Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us...
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Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
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Healthy Skepticism for Better Debates
Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
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Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
Res Obscura
A very deep history of Halloween
Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
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Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
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6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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Dr Alun Withey
Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave!
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today...
over a year ago
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today is usually a pretty mundane – if not a pleasant – experience. Indeed, the rise of traditional barbershops over the past few years, offering shaving as an experience, together with...
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Little People With Agency.
No, not that Agency.
3 months ago
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5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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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...
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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....
Res Obscura
There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
a year ago
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
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The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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Rare Exhibition of Roman Marbles Heads to North America
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In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and...
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George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and flash photography when photographing animals. Shiras, a lawyer who became a politician, borrowed a hunting technique he learned from the Ojibwa tribe called jacklighting, when fire...
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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
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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Who Was George Eliot?
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8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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The Essential Greeks
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***Now Enrolling: Starting July 1st, 2024
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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Van Gogh & Gauguin: A Fiery Friendship Between Two Post-Impressionists
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What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
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6 Female Pre-Raphaelite Artists You Should Know
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Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
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The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the astrological magazine The Prophetic Messenger (1827 to 1861). More commonly known as Raphael’s Almanac in a nod to the Jewish archangel Raphael, the name was used a nom de plume by a...
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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Patterns in Humanity
Sweden's immigration taboo
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
4 months ago
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
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Phoolan Devi, Bandit Queen of India
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Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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Here’s What to Know About the Oldest High School in America
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
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Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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NATO's Phantom Armies.
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
7 months ago
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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What Was Jim Crow?
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5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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The Coming Of Neo-Tribalism.
Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
6 months ago
Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
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The “Arch”: Who Was Desmond Tutu?
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10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time
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Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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a year ago
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
The First Anglo-Burmese War
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
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Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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