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This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
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Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes:...
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Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull
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Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From?
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Who Was Walt Whitman?
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The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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Who is Mierle Laderman Ukeles?
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Dreams of Space -...
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Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
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Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
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How Did Socrates Die?
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France’s Long March Against Racism
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Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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Trying to Understand...
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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Global Inequality...
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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Early Christian Poetry
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
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A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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African History...
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Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription...
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Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription that describes a trading expedition to an unspecified region called the land of Punt. Egyptologists had long debated about the location of this mysterious territory before recent...
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Dutch & Flemish Vanitas Paintings: A Theme for the North’s Golden Age
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Open Culture
Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
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The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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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
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899)
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
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State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
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What Are the Origins of Santa Claus?
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When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
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How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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How Mexico Fought Franco
How Mexico Fought Franco
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
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How Mexico Fought Franco
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Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
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10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism?
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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JamesHoare
Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
Classical Wisdom
Does Karma Exist?
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Does what goes around come around?
Trying to Understand...
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But some things are more connected than others.
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Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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Summary of changes for February
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over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
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Classical Wisdom
Last Call for Classical Gifts
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
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What Was Operation Downfall?
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Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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Cars of Britain in the 1970s
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of...
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In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
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11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case
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African History...
a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world.
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain...
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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.
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the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
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Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
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Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest...
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Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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Explore Montmartre Through Van Gogh’s Eyes: Views of Paris
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NATO's Phantom Armies.
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And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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British Museum Receives Its Most Valuable Gift Ever
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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Climate Vandal Painted Words in Red Next to a Civil War Exhibit
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was...
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Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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The Birth of Ovid
The Birth of Ovid
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Sun, 03/24/2024 - 00:00
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The Birth of Ovid
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Sun, 03/24/2024 - 00:00
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
over a year ago
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
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This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi, a Thai folding book that opens from top to bottom. It was made in the 19th century in central Siam (now Thailand) by an unknown artist. Such folding books were typically made from...
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What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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