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Who Invented the Ukulele?
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New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
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The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
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Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness?
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London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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Should We Follow Silly Laws?
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned...
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius
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World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
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Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
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Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
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Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President
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How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique.
Another of my essays in French.
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Another of my essays in French.
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Ed Ruscha’s Artists’ Books: An Innovative Approach
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5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History
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What Was the First Written Language?
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10 Curious Facts About Johnny Cash
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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Classical Wisdom
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Secret of the Stoics
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
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This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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Artists Expressed Concerns on Banning TikTok in the U.S.
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People, States and Borders.
And other dubious ideas.
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A History Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro
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Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the...
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You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the 1960s and 1970s you’ve seen his work on movie posters and magazine covers. Born in Rome, Putzu studied at the Rome Academy and discovered a love of portrait painting. After...
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On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
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Trying to Understand...
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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Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
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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...
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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"He spoke of computers with some awe"
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How Were the Twelve Tribes of Israel Formed?
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Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive...
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Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive that speaks of her talent as a street and press photographer, writer and collector, most notably of vintage dog photographs which now live at London’s Bishopsgate Institute. “Mine...
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
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You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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Life and works of Africa's most famous Woman scholar: Nana Asmau (1793-1864)
On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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I Have No Brain But I Must Scream.
But why aren't people in other countries listening?
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Why Did Remedios Varo Paint So Many Self-Portraits?
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How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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A Brief History of Cartography: The Importance of Maps in Civilization
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink...
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What Is a Film Auteur?
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has...
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Albert Speer: Architect, Minister, and Hitler’s Closest Friend
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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Stock vs flow approach.
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How Did Socrates Die?
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Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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What Is Anti-Natalism?
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Prevent Character Assassination?
Corruption in the Ancient World
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical...
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7 African Myths About Animals
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7 of the Most Popular Hats in History
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
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Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:08
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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Global Inequality...
Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
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Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
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Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
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Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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4 Novels by John Steinbeck You Should Read
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Open Culture
How A Charlie Brown Christmas, and Its Beloved Soundtrack Album, Almost Never Happened
A Charlie Brown Christmas uses a cast of amateur child voice actors, deals with the theme of...
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A Charlie Brown Christmas uses a cast of amateur child voice actors, deals with the theme of seasonal depression, and culminates in the recitation of a Bible verse, all to a jazz score. It was not, safe to say, the special that CBS had expected, to say nothing of its sponsor, the...
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Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
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Greece's Forgotten Legacy
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
a year ago
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Chris Clark
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What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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Hundred Rabbits
Dry Toilet Installation
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer...
over a year ago
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer it over the ready-made models. We learned tons doing it, and now our toilet is perfectly suited to our space. The pandemic has pushed more people into boat and van living (to travel...
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What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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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)...
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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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Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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10 Women Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Classical Wisdom
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Plato Vs Aristotle
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Podcast with Stephen Fry
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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Wrong Side of...
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres...
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When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres tour, Blondie got the call. Georgia-based southern rockers Stillwater couldn’t play. So would the New Yorkers deliver what 18,000 fans of the Canadian rockers packed into the...
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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Prometheus and AI?
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How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
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Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
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A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of zodiac figures accompanied with text. It was made before 1844. “Maria Revere Balestier (daughter of Paul Revere and wife to the first American consulate to Singapore) was the...
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How Did the Seasons Get Their Names?
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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First Nations of the Canadian Subarctic: A Brief History
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The Ancient World’s Greatest War
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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More Than A Philosopher
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit the Pyramids?
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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...
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The Defining Style of the 1930s: What Is Art Deco?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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