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7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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Patterns in Humanity
Demographics and American Homicides
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
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Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
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Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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Why Did Ukraine Make Stamps of Banksy’s Art?
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Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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Inventing Cyrillic
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JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
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Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
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When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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10 Must-Visit Places Around the World for History Buffs
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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Who Were the Toughest Women in the Old West?
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Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it...
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“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
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Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which...
11 months ago
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which people will get individual jet-powered wings to fly. It is set a little like a fantasy and a little like a dream. It has "perfect" 1950s illustrations about how the future might...
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Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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Classical Wisdom
Does FIRST Matter Most?
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
a year ago
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
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Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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Climate Vandal Painted Words in Red Next to a Civil War Exhibit
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
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The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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Hundred Rabbits
where is the turtle farm
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the...
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Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the market, or of the company to be found here, but just of having that same view every morning. We love this city, but when it's time to go, it's time to go!
We left our mooring at...
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10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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10 Historic Towns in Nevada Worth Visiting
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
j.hoare
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
j.hoare
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
Trying to Understand...
A Week Off And A New Language
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a year ago
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What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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Res Obscura
The (history of) spice must flow
Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
10 months ago
Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
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Top Five Painters To Watch in 2024
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Who Was Walt Whitman?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVa: Philip V
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look...
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This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look at why the thing to use to beat a Macedonian sarisa phalanx is, in fact, a Roman legion in the third and second century BC. Last time, we finished our look at the third-century...
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Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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Overcoming Bias
Conquest and Liberation of Academia
During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
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Dreams of Space -...
Cosmonaut-2 (1964)
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely...
over a year ago
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961.
Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
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Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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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
Classical Wisdom
Do You Listen Well?
Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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Trying to Understand...
Too Much of Not A Lot
Winning the day and losing the war.
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Winning the day and losing the war.
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“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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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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Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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7 Museums to Visit in Athens
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The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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Wrong Side of...
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
Trying to Understand...
It's All About Them.
But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
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But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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What Are the Challenges of Creating ‘True Crime’ Stories?
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Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England
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What Are the Books of the Old Testament? Order & Overview
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6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know
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How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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weird medieval guys
The coolest medieval woman you've never heard of
Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
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Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
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Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
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Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
Wrong Side of...
On the Tory Cult of Personality and its Consequences
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Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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Open Culture
An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to...
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
Classical Wisdom
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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What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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Classical Wisdom
What Makes a Hero a HERO?
Both in the ancient world... and today?
a year ago
Both in the ancient world... and today?
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J.S. Bach’s Life and Travels in Germany
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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Open Culture
The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
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With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
Flashbak
Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav...
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Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
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10 Powerful Women From Folklore and Mythology Around the World
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Global Inequality...
The ideology of Donald J. Trump
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African History...
a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
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plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
Open Culture
Hunter S. Thompson Remembers Jimmy Carter’s Captivating Bob Dylan Speech (1974)
51 years ago, Hunter S. Thompson wrote Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72, which “is still...
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51 years ago, Hunter S. Thompson wrote Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72, which “is still considered a kind of bible of political reporting,” noted Matt Taibbi in a 40th anniversary edition of the book. Fear and Loathing ’72 entered the canon of American political...
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The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
JamesHoare
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
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The Mystery of Agnes Martin in 7 Facts
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House
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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great...
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“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” —Duane Michals Through image sequences, framing, multiple exposures,...
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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The Eye of Every Storm : Anarchist Response to Hurricane Helene
At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30...
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At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30 inches of rainfall over two days when an unnamed storm collided with Hurricane Helene over the mountains of Southern Appalachia. The resulting catastrophe laid waste to the entire...
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How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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A History of the Free City of Danzig (Now Gdansk)
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6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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African History...
Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
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Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
African History...
A history of Grande Comore (Ngazidja) ca. 700-1900.
State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation?
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What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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Res Obscura
When technology follows art
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the...
a year ago
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
Flashbak
In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the...
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Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In Your Face. Like Mark...
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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Classical Wisdom
Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
Which Playwright did it better?
6 months ago
Which Playwright did it better?
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Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
a month ago
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
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