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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s...
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In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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Art Philanthropy in the US Depends on Prestige
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What Is the Role of First Ladies in US Elections?
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Marina Abramović Leads 7-Minute Silence at Glastonbury Festival
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Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict
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What Is the Hill of the Buddha?
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African History...
A general history of African explorers of the Old world, and a 19th century Bornu traveller of...
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old...
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This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old World’ from the classical period to the turn of the 20th century.
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10 U.S. Retirement Destinations for History Lovers
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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10 Facts About the Curious Calvin Coolidge: The Coolest President?
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How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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Who Won the Battle of Stones River?
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American...
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“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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Why the Organ Split the Church
Why the Organ Split the Church
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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What Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England?
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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Dreams of Space -...
The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a...
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This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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NATO's Phantom Armies.
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
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“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
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What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius
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Silvio Berlusconi’s Worthless Art Collection
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Should We Be Afraid of Technology?
Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
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Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
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16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime...
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Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime thrillers laced with smoky cynicism, femme fatales and amoral ambiguity first produced by Hollywood in the 1940s. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in...
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Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon...
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a...
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Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a child he harboured dreams of becoming a photographer. He roamed around his parents’ home and snapped pictures in his head. He had a talent for it which he thought of turning into a...
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A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
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We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
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Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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What Is Anti-Natalism?
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A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act...
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“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act as a form of communication that transcends language to connect cultures together” – Jeffrey Deitch Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010) changed our expectations around art. Named after...
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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Rastafarianism: Religion or Philosophy?
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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Useless in Gaza
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As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
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Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
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Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
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Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.
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You don't need to know that.
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The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
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‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
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The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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What Is Capoeira?
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
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One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
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‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
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Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:16
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‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
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We are lost in a haunted wood.
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What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy?
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King John’s Lost Treasure
King John’s Lost Treasure
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Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
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King John’s Lost Treasure
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MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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Summary of changes for October
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
uxn,...
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time...
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“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time when people are so baffled, so in need of help.” – Käthe Kollwitz diary entry, December 1922 Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) made over 100 self-portraits of her …...
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
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Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
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Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
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A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
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Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections
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The Soldier with a Secret: Who Was Sarah Emma Edmonds?
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Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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How Did German Expressionism Shape Film Noir?
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Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal
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Washburn Gallery in NY Permanently Closes After Half a Century
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Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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What Are the 8 Most Popular Churches in Venice?
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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Toxic Walls: Why Was Victorian Green Wallpaper So Deadly?
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The Mystery of Crazy Horse: His Life & Legacy
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Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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Egypt’s Giza Restoration Bid Faces Backlash From Archaeologists
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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Summary of changes for April 2023
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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Get to Know Alma Mahler: Composer, Muse, and Scandalous Woman
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Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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The Great Migration to Bluesky
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The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the...
a year ago
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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Van Dyck Rare Drawing Could Sell for $1.2 Million at Christie’s
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Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
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a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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