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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
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First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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Moon Base (1959)
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base"...
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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African History...
The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
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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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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Trying to Understand...
How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally?
Here are a few modest ideas.
a year ago
Here are a few modest ideas.
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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The American Patriot War: “The Americans Are Coming!”
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Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte...
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Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
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The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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7 Wars That Nearly Happened (But Didn’t)
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Lost Caravaggio Painting Unveiled at the Prado
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 22, 2024
Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks...
9 months ago
Fireside this week! The ACOUP schedule might end up being a little unstable for the next few weeks as the coincidence of illness, the dense part of the teaching semester and unexpected travel are playing havoc on my schedule. I can only promise that we will finish the series on...
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Coach Rusty’s Art Goes Interactive With Top Tier Authentics
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Trying to Understand...
No End Of A Lesson.
If we can only learn it.
2 months ago
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What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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Trying to Understand...
The Machine Stops.
And fiddling won't fix it.
3 months ago
And fiddling won't fix it.
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Bananas & Brutality: The Twisted History of United Fruit
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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIb: Pyrrhus
This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
9 months ago
This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the performance of the Roman army and its legions in the third and second century BC against the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we sought to assess some of...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of...
11 months ago
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of Hellenistic warfare and the triumph of the Roman legion. Our core question is a really common one: why was the Roman legion able to decisively defeat the Hellenistic...
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The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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Ivar the Boneless: History, TV Portrayals, and Viking Legends
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‘Spiral Jetty’ Added to National Register of Historic Places
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Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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The Political Effects of the Vietnam War
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Flashbak
Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science...
6 months ago
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). The short, typically four-page issues promoted the book club’s coming selections and best of volumes from Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
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How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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African History...
The radical philosophy of the Hatata: a 17th century treatise by the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
8 months ago
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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Dreams of Space -...
Man-Made Moons (1960)
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
a year ago
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant to be an example of isotype graphic design. This was a visual language created to unite the world without using words at all: International System Of Typographic Picture Education,...
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‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and...
4 months ago
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and not finished until 1967. All 26 letters are created in individual gouaches on paper, in exotic human form (and later formed print editions). This exhibit was a hit when it was first...
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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Weekend Roundup
The Art of the Interesting
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The Art of the Interesting
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Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name?
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weird medieval guys
Huge announcement: there’s a Weird Medieval Guys BOOK coming out soon!
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a year ago
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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Grey Art Gallery at NYU Gets New Space and Name
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Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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King Stephen of Blois: England’s Anarchist King
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Complete Kelmscott Press Book Collection Sells Out at Auction
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Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration,...
5 months ago
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from 1875-1925, writes Albert Seligman. His luxurious Gift Books of the early 20th century were covered in vellum and issued in signed limited editions with tipped-in color...
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The Threat of Back to Normal
Global power has always been distributed.
a year ago
Global power has always been distributed.
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
8 months ago
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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Weekend Roundup
Plato and Atlantis
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness?
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Who Was Achilles? Greek Mythology’s Greatest Warrior
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry...
9 months ago
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
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U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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Weekend Roundup
St. Nick and Saturnalia
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Another Of My Essays in French
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
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Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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African History...
Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
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Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
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What Is First Corinthians About?
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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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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The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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5 of Hildegard of Bingen’s Most Notable Works
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Niagara Falls?
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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War Is Complicated.
And not just the fighting bit.
a year ago
And not just the fighting bit.
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re...
a month ago
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re their likelihood and desirability. (I later added influence.) Here are best fit priorities (relative to 100 max), sorted by priority sum:
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Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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[Ebook] The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius...
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) gives you a prescribed way in which you can actually reduce genuine suffering in your life because Rome’s great “philosopher king” lays out a very compelling, very...
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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Who Was Carl Gustav Jung?
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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Songhai Empire: The Rise & Fall of Africa’s Biggest Empire
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Was David Gulpilil Australia’s Most Important Actor?
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Euripides
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
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The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
African History...
A history of the Lozi kingdom. ca. 1750-1911.
state and society in south-central Africa
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state and society in south-central Africa
Classical Wisdom
No Women Allowed?
Greek Theater and Gender
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African History...
The colonial myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in medieval Islamic geography: the view from Egypt and...
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Encaustic Painting: An Ancient Art Form Explained
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6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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