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‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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Jamestown: The Myth & Mystery of America’s First Permanent Colony
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What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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René Girard on Sacrifice & Violence: Why Does Scapegoating Happen?
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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3 Beautiful Places in the North of England Tourists Tend to Neglect
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
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Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
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People, States and Borders.
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Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
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The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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Shays’ Rebellion Explained: A New Governing System for the New US
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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The Scene That Reveals the Beauty of Classic Hollywood Cinema
1939 is widely considered the greatest year in Hollywood history. Back then, writes 1939: The Year...
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1939 is widely considered the greatest year in Hollywood history. Back then, writes 1939: The Year in Movies author Tom Flannery, the so-called “Big Eight” major American studios “had a combined 590 actors, 114 directors and 340 writers under contract, each of whom worked an...
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What Are Djinn? (Powers, Tales, & Etymology)
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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What Does It Mean to Be a Critical Thinker?
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Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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Who cares about Homer, anyway?
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What’s the Best Time to Visit the Colosseum?
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Global Inequality...
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The decline and fall of the print media.
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The Value of Wills to Historians
The Value of Wills to Historians
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The Value of Wills to Historians
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Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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Flashbak
Mazes and Labyrinths: An Illustrated History (1922)
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“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” – Philip K. Dick, VALIS William H. Matthews leads us through his 1922 book Mazes and Labyrinths from his home in Ruislip in the English county of Middlesex. Compiled shortly...
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain?
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Can Perfumes Be Art? Famous Artists Who Designed Perfume Bottles
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Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
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British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
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Jackie Kennedy’s Georgetown Mansion Goes on Sale
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
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Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Father of the Turks
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What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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What Is a Medieval Morality Play?
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5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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Aristotle's Poetics
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The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution?
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What Was the First Written Language?
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
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The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
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How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
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...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
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Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019
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What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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What Is the History of the Guitar?
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The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World
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5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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Do You Listen Well?
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The Many Roads to Rome
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10 Must-See Pirate Fortresses and Coastal Strongholds Around the World
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7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising
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Jonathan Sacks: Are Science and Religion Enemies?
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The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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Hundred Rabbits
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It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
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Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
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What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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Free French Bombers Over France
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Free French Bombers Over France
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Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
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What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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Sales Drop for Christie’s in 2023
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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Lucian Freud Nude to Make $20 Million Auction Debut
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Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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What is Postmodern Art? The Genre Defined in 8 Iconic Works
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Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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Secrets of the Sibyls
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What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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