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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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We left our mooring at...
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
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Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
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10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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The Vasari Sacristy: Breathtaking Artwork in Naples
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What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist...
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Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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5 Influential African Leaders of the 20th Century
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War Is Complicated.
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And not just the fighting bit.
Dreams of Space -...
Mole Rocket (1965)
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece...
over a year ago
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
over a year ago
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August) issue had a number of space related articles including: Will Your Child Visit The Moon? The article makes the case to the mothers of America that travel into space and the Moon is...
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9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career
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The Revolt of the Outer Party.
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
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Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
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How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
Part One, anyway. More next week.
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Part One, anyway. More next week.
A Collection of...
Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
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This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
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History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy : Why the Democrats Are Responsible for...
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of...
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Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of the battles of 2017-2020 all over again. But first, in order to understand the scale of what we’re up against, let’s look at how we got here.
The Hot Potato Changes Hands Again
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A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History?
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The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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What Did Americans Eat During the Great Depression?
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Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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Simulating History with ChatGPT
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
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The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
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Have A Weird Christmas With Our Album Of Vintage Photo Oddities
There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E....
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There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E. Jackson’s phenomenal collection of snapshots we see all kinds of unusual goings on. One Christmas card features a photo of the sender covered in rats; on another a man canoodles a...
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Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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Lower Manhattan in 1973
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May...
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These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
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Trees at Night: Art Young’s Haunting Silhouettes, 1927
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“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. As a man is, so he sees.” – William Blake Arthur Henry Young – better known as Art Young (January 14, 1866–December 29, 1943) – saw humanity in the … Continue...
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Catching Nessie on Film
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Catching Nessie on Film
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Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
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The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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What Was the Chaco War?
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Who Was Vernon Lee?
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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...
a year ago
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest medieval conventions, sometimes depicted in water colour with fantastic elements such as human faces. The medicinal properties and preparations of the plants. Via University...
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10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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Dutch Influence in Alsatian Art: 5 Artists Known for Their Still-Lifes
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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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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 a loser At break of day I say goodnight When I lie down I have a great fear Of falling. – Ballade du concours de Blois by François Villon … Continue reading "Strange And...
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and...
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“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883–April 10, 1931) published the collection Twenty Drawings, the first and only time a selection of his paintings had appeared in print....
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was...
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”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel’s new blood. Jean Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.” — Andy Warhol’s longtime studio...
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10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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Looking Into Science (1965)
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965...
over a year ago
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know
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5 Timeless Financial Tips from Greek and Roman Philosophers
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What Are the Abraham Tapestries?
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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Another Of My Essays in French
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
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Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
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How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
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The Evolution of Socialism and Its Influence in the US
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What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes...
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“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes Stephen Harmon, a retired lawyer who first lived on New York City’s West End Avenue and 73rd street. “I am a photographer and set out to preserve it on film because I knew the...
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The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism
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A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
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The Evils Of Professionalism
In politics, anyway.
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s...
4 months ago
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
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What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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Let Them Eat Cake: 28 Sweet Birthday Cake Snapshots
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a...
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According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a birthday – you need to blow them out in a single puff for the smoke to carry your wishes to god, in order for them to come true. Yep, that’s where you’ve been … Continue reading "Let...
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
The Death of Caspar Hauser
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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Sun, 12/17/2023 - 00:00
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What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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The Rise of Fascism in Italy & The Two “Black Years”
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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Sex Before Sex Education
Sex Before Sex Education
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Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
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Sex Before Sex Education
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French...
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The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French readers in 1847. Baudelaire, who saw Poe as a “sacred soul” and something of a kindred spirit, translated many of the American writer’s words into French, including Poe’s poem The...
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
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Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
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At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
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On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
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Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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