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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
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What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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Hundred Rabbits
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The Election That Caused the Boer War
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Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
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What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
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Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
a year ago
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me...
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“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
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Monet Haystack Painting Could Fetch $30 Million at Auction Next Month
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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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How Did Religion Influence Law in the Ottoman Empire?
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Weekend Roundup
Lost and Found
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Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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3 Dark Age Kings of Britain Confirmed by Archaeology
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7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Secrets of the Sirens
The Original Femme Fatales?
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The Original Femme Fatales?
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Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
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Wed, 12/20/2023 - 07:00
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Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
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Wed, 12/20/2023 - 07:00
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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Trees at Night: Art Young’s Haunting Silhouettes, 1927
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands...
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“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. As a man is, so he sees.” – William Blake Arthur Henry Young – better known as Art Young (January 14, 1866–December 29, 1943) – saw humanity in the … Continue...
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How the South Became Republican
How the South Became Republican
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
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How the South Became Republican
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Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
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The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs
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James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of...
3 months ago
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of times, they weren’t that happy about it. I went to three or four Lollapalooza concerts with my camera when they were there – I busted into things not to supervise them but to take...
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10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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Sappho: The Lost Poetess
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Watch now (1 min) | Now FREE with a Classical Wisdom Kids Yearly Membership
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
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Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
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Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican
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British Museum to Digitalize Its Collection
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The Evolution of Socialism and Its Influence in the US
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“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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Trying to Understand...
The Third World War Has Been Cancelled.
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5 months ago
It was all too difficult, finally.
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Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know
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What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China?
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Dr Alun Withey
The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners,...
over a year ago
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
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Summary of changes for July
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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, added image maps, animation controls, and wrote a guide....
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7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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Jackie Kennedy’s Georgetown Mansion Goes on Sale
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11 Amazing Rooms & Artworks in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj
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Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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10 Films for Photography Enthusiasts
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The Tragedy of Ajax
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What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of Asia
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plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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Essential Greeks LIVE Webinar Times
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Who Was the Only U.S. President to Serve More Than Two Terms?
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The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France
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What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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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...
9 months ago
“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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What Is Populism?
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Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
3 months ago
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
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Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
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Macron is Safe for the Moment
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a year ago
But the future worries me.
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Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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What Did Americans Eat During the Great Depression?
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Weekend Roundup
The Epics Collection
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton...
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
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Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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African History...
a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
a year ago
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
2 months ago
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
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Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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What is the WORD? How can we understand Logos?
Do Words Matter?
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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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The Allure of Medieval Churches
The Allure of Medieval Churches
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Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
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What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
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Mon, 11/25/2024 - 11:01
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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5 Illustrated Stories by Shaun Tan That You Should Know
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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weird medieval guys
Why medieval artists drew ancient Romans in medieval clothes
Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
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Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
Dreams of Space -...
Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the...
a year ago
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the space race but they did have a clear plan laid out for creating the engineers they might need. The school library was usually full of these career books to inspire academic...
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
a month ago
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
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Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
6 months ago
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
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Weekend Roundup
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8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February...
11 months ago
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998) was known to his fans as Orion. To others he was Elvis Presley. Ellis appeared with many artists, including Loretta Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy...
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10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb)...
a year ago
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
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Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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Artist Frank Auerbach Dies at 93
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10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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Who Was Gabriele D’Annunzio?
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Res Obscura
Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
Some lessons from history and archaeology
a year ago
Some lessons from history and archaeology
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History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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