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Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
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American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no point in trying to achieve anything else in life. As he put it: “If it’s not fun, there’s no point!” A new book of his conceptual photographs illustrates the point. Above, you can see...
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
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Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
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Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos
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Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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What Are the Most Similar Languages?
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Lower Manhattan in 1973
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These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
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Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
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The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
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The Rembrandt Painting to Sell For $18.4 M. at Auction
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Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover
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Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
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Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon...
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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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.
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The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
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Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
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Hombres Del Espacio (1960)
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
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What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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Mount Toba: Did a Supervolcano Almost Wipe Out the Human Species?
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20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
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Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone...
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“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz We’re back looking at teenagers at home and in their bedrooms in the 1980 an 1990s. We’ve been back there before, checking our the snapshot …...
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
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The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
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A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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Abstract Expressionist Alfred Leslie Through 7 Paintings
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post...
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7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It...
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I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
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This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi, a Thai folding book that opens from top to bottom. It was made in the 19th century in central Siam (now Thailand) by an unknown artist. Such folding books were typically made from...
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8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican
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A Look at London in 1975 with English Eccentrics and Mr Whippy
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The Great Flood
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
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The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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Inventing Cyrillic
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The complete history of Kano (999-1903)
journal of African cities chapter 9
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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...
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
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Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
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How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
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Who Was George Hodel?
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Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Who Was Ben Black Elk?
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Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
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Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
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Restoration Reveals Ancient Colors of Egypt’s Edfu Temple
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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5 Influential African Leaders of the 20th Century
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
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On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown Heights to see the skaters at Brooklyn’s Empire Roller Disco. Formerly the Empire Rollerdrome (built 1941), the rink was now all disco. It was where Cher hosted the release party for...
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A History of the US House of Representatives
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Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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What is Pantheism in Art?
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Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
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Serop Simonian Art Dealer Arrested by German Polica
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Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
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Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
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What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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What Is Theodicy?
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Who Won the Second Battle of Bull Run?
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What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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Japanese Martial Arts: How Were They Invented (and Exported)?
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What Was Négritude?
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Why Bother Being Good? A Philosophical Exploration of Morality
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Juan Rulfo: Whispers & Myths From Mexico’s Most Enigmatic Writer
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10 Forgotten US Presidents
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Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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China’s Communist Comic Books
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What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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Gods Vs Titans
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...and the Origins of the Universe
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Dr Paul Cartledge on Alexander the Great’s Tomb, Netflix & More
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The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
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An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
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The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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Recidivism in Norway
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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Overcoming Bias
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I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my last post make this a good time to take stock.
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Europe turns away from America.
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Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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Why I love etymologies
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Why are MYTHS Important?
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Get to Know Alma Mahler: Composer, Muse, and Scandalous Woman
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The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
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Weekend Roundup
Julius Caesar
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What Is the History of Valentine’s Day?
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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Weekend Roundup
The Ancient Novel
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a brief note on the history of Music in Africa
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plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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Rituals and Religion
Belief in the Ancient World
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Belief in the Ancient World
A Collection of...
Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
11 months ago
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
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Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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