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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
TheCollector
A Guide to Madrid for Art Enthusiasts (10 Things to Do)
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Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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Last Call for Classical Gifts
Shipping Cutoff imminent
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Russian Revolutionary: Who Was Leon Trotsky?
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10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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James Joyce's Ulysses
Retelling of the Odyssey
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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Weekend Roundup
Secret of the Stoics
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
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Last Chance!
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take
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Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
11 months ago
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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African History...
A history of the Lozi kingdom. ca. 1750-1911.
state and society in south-central Africa
9 months ago
state and society in south-central Africa
Classical Wisdom
A Book 100 Years in the Making
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
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Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion?
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Historical Figures in Ridiculous Frippery: Ruff Love For Old Masters
“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you...
2 days ago
“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask… with nothing beneath it?” — Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes Volker Hermes lampoons traditional...
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
10 months ago
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
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Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
Free French Bombers Over France
Free French Bombers Over France
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
Free French Bombers Over France
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
Trying to Understand...
Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
Some people never grow up.
over a year ago
Some people never grow up.
History Today Feed
Arguing with the Dead
Arguing with the Dead
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
11 months ago
Arguing with the Dead
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
TheCollector
Van Gogh & Gauguin: A Fiery Friendship Between Two Post-Impressionists
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Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly?
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A History of the House of Savoy: From Its Origins to Its End
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Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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Cubism and Collage: How Picasso and Braque Revolutionized Art
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6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
9 months ago
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
TheCollector
Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate,...
11 months ago
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History?
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Global Inequality...
Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
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Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Rhetoric
The Power of Persuasion
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What Is a Banana Republic?
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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8 months ago
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Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who...
7 months ago
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign my … Continue reading "Creating...
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What Was the War of Jenkins’ Ear?
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Flashbak
Views of Polar Regions: Watercolours By Queen Victoria’s Spy
Illustrator Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (26 December 1776 – 21 September 1859) was an...
3 days ago
Illustrator Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (26 December 1776 – 21 September 1859) was an English artist, naturalist, antiquary, illustrator, natural historian, soldier, explorer, writer and spy. That’s quite the package for a man who produced these drawings and...
TheCollector
Silver Shields: Alexander the Great’s Legendary Elite Troops
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Weekend Roundup
The Early Years of Jesus
a year ago
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Carl Jung’s Theory of Archetypes: Major Archetypes, History, Criticism
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Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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African History...
The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE)
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
2 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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Overcoming Bias
Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
2 months ago
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
TheCollector
7 Most Impressive Villas and Palaces to Visit in Rome
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
10 months ago
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
a year ago
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
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a year ago
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The Indian Citizenship Act
The Indian Citizenship Act
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
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The Indian Citizenship Act
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Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
TheCollector
Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Norman Rockwell Works Dispute Finally Over?
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War Is Complicated.
And not just the fighting bit.
a year ago
And not just the fighting bit.
TheCollector
Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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Hundred Rabbits
hello fujisan
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and...
over a year ago
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...
TheCollector
What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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Trying to Understand...
Le Missile passera toujours ... mais qui est prêt à l’admettre ?
Another of my essays in French.
5 days ago
Another of my essays in French.
History Today Feed
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 -...
9 months ago
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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Tue, 03/26/2024 - 09:54
Classical Wisdom
For the Love of the Classics
Valentine's Gifts
11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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What Did Americans Eat During the Great Depression?
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Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks
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Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 00:00
Flashbak
Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded...
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Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded by Ellis O. Jones, a former associate editor of Life magazine and editor of Ladies’ Home Journal who once called for the US Army and Navy to be disbanded and went on to head the...
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Weekend Roundup
Classical Wisdom Books
a year ago
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England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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Does Free Will Exist?
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African History...
a brief note on Africa in 16th century global history.
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
10 months ago
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
Flashbak
Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
a year ago
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
TheCollector
What Are the Recurring Symbols in Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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TheCollector
Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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What’s the History of the Rugby World Cup?
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8 Things You Didn’t Know About Eva Perón
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Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
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a year ago
Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
TheCollector
Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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Ming Dynasty Artefacts Found in South China Shipwreck
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Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a...
a year ago
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
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Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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12 Most Important Art Techniques of Modern Times
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican
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What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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CrimethInc.
The Eye of Every Storm : Anarchist Response to Hurricane Helene
At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30...
a month ago
At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30 inches of rainfall over two days when an unnamed storm collided with Hurricane Helene over the mountains of Southern Appalachia. The resulting catastrophe laid waste to the entire...
TheCollector
Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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Trying to Understand...
Things Don't Always Get Better.
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
3 months ago
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
TheCollector
Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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9 months ago
African History...
A complete history of the old city of Gao ca. 700-1898.
Journal of African cities: chapter 12
5 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 12
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
7 months ago
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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African History...
a brief note on European pirates and African states during the 'golden age of piracy.'
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
9 months ago
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
TheCollector
How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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Patterns in Humanity
Demographics and American Homicides
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
11 months ago
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
TheCollector
$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa)...
9 months ago
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
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What Is First Corinthians About?
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy
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International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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Wrong Side of...
Why we need an insufferable liberal elite
The Great Migration to Bluesky
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The Great Migration to Bluesky
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What Was the Hanseatic League?
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9 months ago
Flashbak
Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he...
11 months ago
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he first spotted at a swap meet in Pasadena, California. We don’t know who took these photographs of David Bowie backstage, James Brown meeting and greeting the fans and many other...
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Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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Weekend Roundup
Origins of Stoicism
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Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements
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3 Beautiful Places in the South of England Tourists Neglect
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Wrong Side of...
The Indian-American century
On the Anglo-Indo-sphere
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Classical Wisdom
Is Subjective Equal to Objective?
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the...
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Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the middle of winter, and finally, around four months later, the first real spring day had arrived. The sun bore her rays magnificently, forcing the city’s residents into an ant-like...
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9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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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
8 months ago
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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African History...
A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
a year ago
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
Classical Wisdom
The Myth of the Minotaur
Journey Into the Labyrinth
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Journey Into the Labyrinth
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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Global Inequality...
Should poor countries remain poor?
Stock vs flow approach.
9 months ago
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James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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History Today Feed
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
3 months ago
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
Trying to Understand...
NATO's Phantom Armies.
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
7 months ago
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
Flashbak
Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
9 months ago
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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Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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What Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England?
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Who Was Frantz Fanon?
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” –...
3 months ago
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” – Meryl Meisler Before cameras became ubiquitous and the billions of instantly sharable and instantly forgettable pictures formed the backdrop to our more insular digital lives,...
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Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Olympics Special
5 months ago
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10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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African History...
a brief note on the long history of African diplomacy.
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
5 months ago
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
TheCollector
William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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History Today Feed
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
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What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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Overcoming Bias
No Meta Status Orgs
In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to...
a month ago
In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to many specific medical conditions, and also to studying and reforming medicine in general, at a meta level.
TheCollector
World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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9 months ago
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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The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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What Is Banksy’s Real Identity? (5 Scenarios)
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Hunter Biden Did Know Who Acquired His Art
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4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
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Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
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Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
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Cronus: The Titan Leader in Greek Mythology
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Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
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Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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Summary of changes for June
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Nasu, released a nasu guide, and updated the look of the icon. We...
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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7 Famous Surrealist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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Summary of changes for December
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How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while...
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“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
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The Death of Clive of India
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What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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10 National and State Parks in the US Where You Can See Ancient Redwoods
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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
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László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
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What Did Adorno Think of Beckett’s Endgame?
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Artist Frank Auerbach Dies at 93
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the rock of polynesia
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Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow?
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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What Are Djinn? (Powers, Tales, & Etymology)
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
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Blast Off (1973)
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a year ago
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
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What Is the Role of First Ladies in US Elections?
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7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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Gap Week: December 27, 2024 (Year in Review)
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Hey folks! Year is coming to a close, so once again I’m going to offer a bit of an end-of-year reflection on the state of the project, along with a brief ‘what’s on the stove’ coverage of what may be coming up. Also, here’s a cat picture: In terms of the project itself, 2024 was,...
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Bob Ross’s First Completed Work Is Up for Sale for $9.85 M.
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Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau
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Why Are There Two Virginias?
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On Bill Warren's "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism"
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
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Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
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How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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African History...
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plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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Phillips 2023 Sales Dropped Down 15 Percent from 2022
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Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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