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10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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The Great Experience (1963)
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
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Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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On Hegel's ignorance of African History
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‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull
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Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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Elliott Erwitt: A Brilliant Photographer Who Took Great Snapshots
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What Was the Relationship Between Cezanne and Zola?
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What Are the Key Influences That Shaped the French New Wave?
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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a year ago
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Nixtamalization: How Ancient Americans Bio-Engineered Corn
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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Res Obscura
"He spoke of computers with some awe"
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KAWS: 11 Things You Should Know
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
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The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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6 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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10 South American Artists You Should Know
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Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
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Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
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Nature Aided in the Creation of the Great Sphinx of Giza?
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Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
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Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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Global Inequality...
The end and the beginning of history
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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How Did Socrates Die?
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Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed.
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Plato on Political Polarization
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
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a year ago
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In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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History Today Feed
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
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Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom...
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For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
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MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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Lost and Found
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Free Will Vs Determinism
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Abundance, capitalism and climate change
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What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature?
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Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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Who Was Vernon Lee?
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I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
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How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
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Trying to Understand...
What Can You Do When You Don't Have A Culture?
Not that much, actually.
4 months ago
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Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist
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Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
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This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
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Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
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Dr Alun Withey
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A History of the US House of Representatives
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Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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Summary of changes for July 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
Hakum, added two drawings to the...
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Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023
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Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
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What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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Frank Stewart’s Portraits of The American Journey – A Story of Jazz And Justice
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Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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Another Of My Essays in French
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And some bits and pieces of news.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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Hume on Personal Identity: Who Are We?
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What Are the Books of the Old Testament? Order & Overview
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Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
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To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
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Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
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AND October 1, 2012...
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Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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How Did Religion Influence Law in the Ottoman Empire?
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7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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A Clash Of Symbols
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The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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8 of the Greatest Fighter Planes of World War II
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How Magnus Maximus’ Forgotten Son Contributed to the Arthurian Legends
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The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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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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Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition: What is an Active Life?
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This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
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Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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an island to oneself
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things...
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Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
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What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
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Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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Sorites Paradox: Why Traditional Logic Is Not Omnipotent
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