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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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Dreams of Space -...
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5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
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Women Portraitists of the Renaissance: A League of Their Own
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13 English Words with Greek Origins
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A Colossal Ramses II Statue Pieces Uncovered
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The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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A Collection of...
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What Is an Antipope?
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At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
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At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
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Here are a few modest ideas.
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Here are a few modest ideas.
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11 Amazing Rooms & Artworks in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj
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What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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Did Jesus Live in India?
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How to Celebrate the Love of Learning
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African History...
The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
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The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone monuments in Africa south of Nubia.
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10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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Who Was Geoffrey of Monmouth? The Man Who Made Arthur and Merlin
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
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African History...
Empire building and Government in the Yorubaland: a history of Oyo (1600-1836)
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over a year ago
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Should Drugs be Criminalized?
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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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I Have No Brain But I Must Scream.
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Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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5 Illustrated Stories by Shaun Tan That You Should Know
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
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Overcoming Bias
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Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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Have A Weird Christmas With Our Album Of Vintage Photo Oddities
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African History...
When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
a year ago
*my article for New Lines Magazine
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Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
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In Praise of the Preterite
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7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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Hidden History
The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
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Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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The Metamorphoses du Jour by JJ Grandville – 1829
Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville...
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Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville (born Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gérard; 1803-1847) is a satire on the bourgeois middle class of Parisian society in the Romantic period. Grandville’s characters have a human body and an...
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When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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The Phoenician Spoken & Written Language: What You Need to Know
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Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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Hundred Rabbits
Working offgrid efficiently
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For the first 3 years we tested the...
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Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the limits of our space, and at first, it was difficult to create new things, as we had to make time to learn how to solve underlying problems. Our boat was not just an office, it was...
History Today Feed
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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Flashbak
Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
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The Myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Great Flood in Greek Mythology
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Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
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A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’?
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Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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Trying to Understand...
No Cheers for Authoritarianism
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
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Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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JamesHoare
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African History...
Anti-slavery laws and Abolitionist thought in pre-colonial Africa
the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
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the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
TheCollector
Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving on the Second Monday of October?
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Classical Wisdom
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Plato and Atlantis
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Would You Kill the Fat Man?
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was...
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Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was bushy haired and youthful, soft-bodied like the Jesus at the Arian Baptistery, hopeful and free. The face was based on the best looking heathen gods. In the Middle Ages, Jesus...
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4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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“I Have a Dream”: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Three Cabins Left
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What Is Anxiety to Soren Kierkegaard?
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What Were the Consolations of Boethius?
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Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
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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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The Year's Midnight.
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
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Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
Classical Wisdom
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Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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The End of Power Projection?
We can't get there from here, anymore.
a year ago
We can't get there from here, anymore.
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