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‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
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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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved the Uxntal reference sheet and improved the Uxntal...
TheCollector
What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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TheCollector
A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’?
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9 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
TheCollector
The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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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
Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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Ming Dynasty Artefacts Found in South China Shipwreck
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Flashbak
William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place”...
10 months ago
“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place” – William S. Burroughs It wasn’t all writing, drug taking, walks among the mysteries, cut ups, fomenting revolution, guns and launching assaults on Soho coffee bars in a typical...
TheCollector
What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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TheCollector
The Musée d’Orsay Held An Immersive Van Gogh Show
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10 months ago
Open Culture
The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have...
3 weeks ago
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
TheCollector
7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks
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TheCollector
Monet Haystack Painting Could Fetch $30 Million at Auction Next Month
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Who Are the Ku Klux Klan?
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TheCollector
The Sand Creek Massacre: A Horrific Tale of Betrayal & Greed
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Flashbak
Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
a month ago
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
Classical Wisdom
The Myth of the Minotaur
Journey Into the Labyrinth
a year ago
Journey Into the Labyrinth
TheCollector
Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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TheCollector
Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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TheCollector
What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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Wrong Side of...
Truth in the old myths
On Troy, King Arthur and the Flood of Noah
5 hours ago
On Troy, King Arthur and the Flood of Noah
TheCollector
Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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TheCollector
The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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TheCollector
The “Arch”: Who Was Desmond Tutu?
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TheCollector
The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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TheCollector
Tiffany Stained Glass Window Poised to Set New Auction Record
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Wrong Side of...
On the Tory Cult of Personality and its Consequences
Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
4 weeks ago
Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
TheCollector
$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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10 South American Artists You Should Know
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What Is the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)? Origins & History
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When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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Trying to Understand...
The Third World War Has Been Cancelled.
It was all too difficult, finally.
6 months ago
It was all too difficult, finally.
TheCollector
World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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Giorgio Agamben’s Notes on Dante’s Divine Comedy
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Who Was Julius Caesar?
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Hidden History
Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
a month ago
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one of the most consequential US elections in modern history.) The story of a Pennsylvania Dutch classic dessert is as colorful as its unusual name… In 1517, Martin Luther began a...
Flashbak
East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for...
8 months ago
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for Disney, for whom he contributed many story sketches and illustrations, not least the nightmarish, eerie and delicate Bald Mountain scenes for the animated movie Fantasia (1940). But...
TheCollector
Sales Drop for Christie’s in 2023
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TheCollector
Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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TheCollector
Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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Dr Alun Withey
Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one...
a year ago
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
TheCollector
What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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TheCollector
Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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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
100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
TheCollector
Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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TheCollector
Why Is Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?
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TheCollector
When Did World War II Start and End?
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TheCollector
Luxembourg in WWII: From Neutrality to Occupation
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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Flashbak
Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in...
8 months ago
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
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TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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What Were the Major Battles and Conflicts of the Medieval Period?
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Who Won the Battle of Nashville?
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Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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Trying to Understand...
The Wages Of Fear
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
8 months ago
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
TheCollector
6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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TheCollector
Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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TheCollector
The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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TheCollector
5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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TheCollector
Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Roman Empire Podcasts
a year ago
TheCollector
7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising
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TheCollector
New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
How ASEAN Lost its Way
How ASEAN Lost its Way
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
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Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
TheCollector
Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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Res Obscura
Kikkuli!
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
a year ago
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the...
over a year ago
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
History Today Feed
The Birth of Ovid
The Birth of Ovid
JamesHoare
Sun, 03/24/2024 - 00:00
9 months ago
The Birth of Ovid
JamesHoare
Sun, 03/24/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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TheCollector
How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt?
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
3 months ago
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
TheCollector
Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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TheCollector
The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story
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The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Monsters and Myths
a year ago
TheCollector
What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/09/2024 - 08:37
12 months ago
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
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Tue, 01/09/2024 - 08:37
TheCollector
What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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a year ago
Overcoming Bias
Love And War And Status
“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
a month ago
“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
TheCollector
4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
6 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Ketchikan, Snug Cove, Ratz Harbor, Frosty Bay, Berg Bay, Wrangell, Petersburg and Ruth Island Cove. Updated library.
Oekaki, optimized and...
TheCollector
La Llorona: Latin America’s Vengeful Ghost in Film & Literature
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Dreams of Space -...
Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
a month ago
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
Classical Wisdom
Origins of Latin Literature
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
a year ago
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
TheCollector
6 Things You Should Know About Pop Art
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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TheCollector
3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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TheCollector
10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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Who Is Ai Weiwei?
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TheCollector
Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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TheCollector
What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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a year ago
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Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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TheCollector
Songhai Empire: The Rise & Fall of Africa’s Biggest Empire
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
To all the newspapers I loved
The decline and fall of the print media.
11 months ago
The decline and fall of the print media.
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5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained
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TheCollector
What Was Kantai Kessen?
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Classical Wisdom
Philosophy and Children
Event: THIS Saturday
9 months ago
TheCollector
Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 Wars That Nearly Happened (But Didn’t)
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TheCollector
Les Soixante-Huitards: The French Student Demonstrations of May 1968
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a year ago
African History...
a brief note on new discoveries in African archeology and the stone ruins of Cameroon.
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription...
5 months ago
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription that describes a trading expedition to an unspecified region called the land of Punt. Egyptologists had long debated about the location of this mysterious territory before recent...
TheCollector
The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs.
Fractran, released what might be the most in-depth...
Flashbak
Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration
Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by...
2 months ago
Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by German-American-French artist and founder of the Dada movement Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976). The book, which marks the beginning of his close friendship with French poet Paul...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
a year ago
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
TheCollector
Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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11 months ago
African History...
Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
11 months ago
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
TheCollector
Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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a year ago
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