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Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
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Denim: The Fabric That Built America
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The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
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Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel.
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How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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6 Micronations You Should Know
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plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
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Memphis Citizens Call for End to New Art Museum
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Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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Patterns in Humanity
Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
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What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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How Did Black Friday Get Its Name?
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Fall of Constantinople (1453): The Siege That Changed the World
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Virgil and the Aeneid
Rome's Greatest Epic
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West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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First Nations of the Canadian Subarctic: A Brief History
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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