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Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover
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After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
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Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Adelie, added image maps, animation controls, and wrote a guide....
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4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian
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Putting Pirates on Trial
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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The Political Effects of the Vietnam War
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The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
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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...
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Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
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7 months ago
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
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The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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Their Enemies The Russians
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
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A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy
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6 Incredible Roman Sites in Spain
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Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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Ancient Marble Floor Restored Underwater in Italy
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it...
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Fisher Landau Sale at Sotheby’s Brought $406 M.
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The Night of the Long Knives: How the Nazis Purged the SA
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7 of the Most Popular Hats in History
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Dreams of Space -...
The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed...
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6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
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Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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Animals of the Ancient World
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
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Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
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The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
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Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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Denim: The Fabric That Built America
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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes:...
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
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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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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign...
over a year ago
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign and just as wild, except instead of hungry lizards there are mosquitoes, also known as the vampires of the Marquesas.
Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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Beneath the Waves...
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
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The First Roman Empress and More...
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Summary of changes for August 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added new pages: Sointula, Johnstone Strait anchorages, and Central coast anchorages. Updated existing pages: added Yuculta and Dent rapids with...
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
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Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
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The Art of Pompeii
Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
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Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
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Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
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What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of...
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The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
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Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
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What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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The Vasari Sacristy: Breathtaking Artwork in Naples
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Heracles and the Lernaean Hydra: The Hero’s Second Labor
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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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...
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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Getting our events straight...
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Getting our events straight...
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Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
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Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
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Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
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Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
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How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some...
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The World's First Computer
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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Why Do Religions Decline?
Why Do Religions Decline?
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Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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Jean Cocteau: A Complete Insight (Bio & Art)
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4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
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Who Won the Battle of Nashville?
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Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured...
7 months ago
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured pictures, interviews, drafts and other materials made by member of the Exit Photography Group – Nicholas Battye, Chris Steele-Perkins and Paul Trevor. Created between 1974 and...
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A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894)
Urbanism in the forest region.
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Urbanism in the forest region.
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The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens...
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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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7 Wars That Nearly Happened (But Didn’t)
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
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Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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TheCollector
Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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A Collection of...
Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking...
a year ago
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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What Are the Recurring Symbols in Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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Are There Still Lepers? The History of Leprosy in 5 Chapters
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African History...
Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
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an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
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What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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Global Inequality...
Living through another great transformation…
A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
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A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
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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...
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Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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Why controlling for variables is insufficient
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what...
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Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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The Dark Ages
A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
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A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
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The kingdom of Ndongo and the Portuguese: Queen Njinga and the dynasty of women sovereigns...
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What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It)
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Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
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Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:20
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Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:20
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Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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Dreams of Space -...
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Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
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Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
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Should We Be Skeptics?
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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
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What Is the History of the Blues?
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
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Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
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6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963)
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A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets.
Coombs, Charles. Illustrated by Foor, R. H. Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power. New York: William Morrow and Co. (96 p.)...
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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various times by Morris, John Prine, and Marianne Faithfull.
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Cronus: The Titan Leader in Greek Mythology
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Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
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Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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Who cares about Homer, anyway?
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What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
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