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Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
TheCollector
Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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Overcoming Bias
Culture Status Report
I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my...
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I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my last post make this a good time to take stock.
Classical Wisdom
Should Drugs be Criminalized?
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
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Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
TheCollector
What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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Who Won the Battle of Atlanta?
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Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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Why Did Ukraine Make Stamps of Banksy’s Art?
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8 Spots for Exploring Indigenous Art in the American Southwest
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5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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History Today Feed
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIb:
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3 months ago
This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at Paradox Interactives ancient grand strategy game, Imperator: Rome, which covers (inter alia) the period of the collapse of the Roman Republic, which we generally call the Late...
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox...
4 months ago
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome, running from the late fourth through the first century BCE, a period that, relevant for today’s discussion, covers the Middle and...
TheCollector
American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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8 Sneaker Trends to be on the Look-out For in 2024
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Magritte Sets $121 Million Auction Record
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Patterns in Humanity
The case for prisons
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The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
TheCollector
9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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TheCollector
The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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Trying to Understand...
The Third World War Has Been Cancelled.
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A Collection of...
Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
a year ago
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...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks Returns!
11 months ago
The Essential Greeks Returns!
TheCollector
4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
How ASEAN Lost its Way
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Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
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Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
TheCollector
What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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Res Obscura
Post-postal
What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
TheCollector
Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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What Is the History of Halloween?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
Flashbak
Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s...
a year ago
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s as if we are all in on the same joke” – Andy Summer on London’s UFO Club Founded by Joe Boyd and John Hopkins, London’s psychedelic UFO Club was small and short-lived, running...
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8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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Hume on Personal Identity: Who Are We?
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TheCollector
Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
7 months ago
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
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
7 months ago
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
TheCollector
10 Must-See Archaeological Sites in the US
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Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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History Today Feed
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
Flashbak
Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and...
4 months ago
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and not finished until 1967. All 26 letters are created in individual gouaches on paper, in exotic human form (and later formed print editions). This exhibit was a hit when it was first...
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6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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A Video Interview with Luis Royo: TheCollector Chats with Fantasy Artist
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Classical Wisdom
What is the WORD? How can we understand Logos?
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TheCollector
How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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Flashbak
Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black...
2 months ago
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in...
8 months ago
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
TheCollector
The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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What Is Voguing?
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TheCollector
What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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Flashbak
Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
a year ago
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
TheCollector
Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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How Did Solomon’s Temple Influence Worship?
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History Today Feed
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
j.hoare
Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
11 months ago
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
j.hoare
Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
TheCollector
Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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Dreams of Space -...
Space Witch (1959)
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
a month ago
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
Space Witch is a pleasant story about a witch who wants to expand her frightening to creatures on other planets. She constructs a "space broom" and a...
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How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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Flashbak
Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
6 months ago
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
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6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Changing Seasons
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Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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History Today Feed
The Death of a Mnemonist
The Death of a Mnemonist
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
7 months ago
The Death of a Mnemonist
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
TheCollector
1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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African History...
The 'hidden founders' of African studies in Europe: African intellectuals in the Holy Roman Empire...
In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then...
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In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then the Holy Roman Empire (modern Germany) where he met Hiob Ludolf, an envoy and linguist whom later generations of ‘Ethiopists’ would regard as the founder of Ethiopian studies in...
TheCollector
Did Jesus Live in India?
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History Today Feed
Columbine 25 Years On
Columbine 25 Years On
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
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Columbine 25 Years On
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Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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French Culture Minister Calls For Climate Activism Penalties
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Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
a year ago
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
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How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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Wrong Side of...
Educated rage
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American polarisation: part 2
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The order of inequality
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Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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Ancient Atomists
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The Origins of Oppenheimer?
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Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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Trying to Understand...
Getting Used To Being Weak.
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It's worse than you probably imagine.
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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History Today Feed
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
j.hoare
Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
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‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
j.hoare
Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
History Today Feed
Arguing with the Dead
Arguing with the Dead
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
10 months ago
Arguing with the Dead
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
10 months ago
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
TheCollector
Elton John Collection Goes on Sale After 21 Years
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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Was Walt Whitman a Transcendentalist?
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Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving on the Second Monday of October?
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The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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The Philosophy of Time: Study the Nature of Past, Present, and Future
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Venice Plan for Damaged Banksy Mural Concerns Locals
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