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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
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TheCollector
The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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TheCollector
Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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TheCollector
Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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Classical Wisdom
What is Plagiarism?
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
a year ago
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
TheCollector
Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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TheCollector
Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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TheCollector
What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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TheCollector
Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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Trying to Understand...
They Say They Want Rearmament ....
We-ell, you know ....
a year ago
TheCollector
Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
No Left Turn
Workers and Peasants we are not.
5 months ago
Workers and Peasants we are not.
Flashbak
Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the...
2 months ago
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Important Disciples of Jesus Christ?
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/23/2024 - 10:26
a month ago
‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/23/2024 - 10:26
History Today Feed
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
9 months ago
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Norman Rockwell Works Dispute Finally Over?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
My Substack in Other Languages.
Starting with Spanish.
a year ago
TheCollector
Tiffany Stained Glass Window Poised to Set New Auction Record
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TheCollector
How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How to Steal From Homer
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
a year ago
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
TheCollector
Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Essential Greeks
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7 months ago
***Now Enrolling: Starting July 1st, 2024
TheCollector
The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Stoicism and Buddhism
a week ago
TheCollector
10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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a year ago
TheCollector
Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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a year ago
TheCollector
Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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African History...
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...
5 months ago
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.
TheCollector
What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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Flashbak
Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and...
5 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...
Classical Wisdom
Where did the time go?
Important Notice
a month ago
History Today Feed
How the South Became Republican
How the South Became Republican
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
4 months ago
How the South Became Republican
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
TheCollector
Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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a year ago
Flashbak
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....
Overcoming Bias
Gender Norms Are Complex, Opaque
Wondering how to make clear our cultural drift problem, it occurred to me that historical fiction,...
2 days ago
Wondering how to make clear our cultural drift problem, it occurred to me that historical fiction, especially using time travel, could make vivid how key norms and values have actually changed greatly over time, and not always in obviously good ways.
Classical Wisdom
Final Call
Class Begins Tomorrow
a year ago
TheCollector
What is Pantheism in Art?
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9 months ago
Overcoming Bias
What Culture Can You Trust?
Star Wars came out when I was 17, and made a big impression on me; I loved it.
3 weeks ago
Star Wars came out when I was 17, and made a big impression on me; I loved it.
Trying to Understand...
You And Whose Army?
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
a year ago
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
Dreams of Space -...
Yuri's Night is April 12th!
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri...
a year ago
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri Gagarin 1st manned flight into space in Vostok 1, which completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. So this book is also from 1961 suggesting that children should dream of this...
Patterns in Humanity
Where parents make a difference
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
10 months ago
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
TheCollector
Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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TheCollector
6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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TheCollector
When Was the First Crusade?
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TheCollector
The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
The Search for the Historical Buddha
The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
a year ago
The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
TheCollector
The History of Underwear: Loincloths, Petticoats, Boxers, & Briefs
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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Open Culture
Compare the “It Ain’t Me Babe” Scene from A Complete Unknown to the Real Bob Dylan & Joan Baez...
A Complete Unknown, the new movie about Bob Dylan’s rise in the folk-music scene of the early...
2 weeks ago
A Complete Unknown, the new movie about Bob Dylan’s rise in the folk-music scene of the early nineteen-sixties and subsequent electrified break with it, has been praised for not taking excessive liberties, at least by the standards of popular music biopics. Its conversion of a...
TheCollector
How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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4 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Beware Shared Basic Value Changes
Most of our activities can be seen as nested plans, to achieve nested goals.
4 days ago
Most of our activities can be seen as nested plans, to achieve nested goals.
Trying to Understand...
Into the Waste Land
Nothing connects.
a year ago
TheCollector
The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a...
3 months ago
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a photography series of everyday people at work and at home in urban America, having been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 as New American Life. In his introduction to...
TheCollector
What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism?
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TheCollector
Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome?
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TheCollector
French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
4 months ago
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
a year ago
Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of the Old world
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
a year ago
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
TheCollector
Who Was Oswald Mosley?
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2 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ib: Subjects of the Successors
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the...
12 months ago
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the Hellenistic army and its Macedonian phalanx and the Romans with their legions. Last week, we looked at the weapons, organization and fighting style of the Macedonian phalanx, the infantry...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Julius Caesar
10 months ago
Flashbak
At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical...
7 months ago
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
TheCollector
6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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TheCollector
Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
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TheCollector
Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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TheCollector
British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Négritude?
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4 months ago
African History...
A history of the west African diaspora in Arabia and Jerusalem before 1900
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
a year ago
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
TheCollector
When the US Senate Put Comic Books on Trial
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TheCollector
10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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Flashbak
‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange...
8 months ago
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange bucket. He’s wearing dirty jeans and a grey hoodie. The guy’s in his seventies. Weather-worn. Grizzled beard. Walking stick. Back trouble caused by “old spinal injuries and bad...
TheCollector
Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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TheCollector
Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July
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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented the export of .theme files, and theme...
History Today Feed
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
3 months ago
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
TheCollector
A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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TheCollector
American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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8 months ago
Flashbak
A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000...
2 months ago
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000 employees lost their jobs. And another part of old New York went the way of the Automat and the Times Square peep show. The New York State Legislature enacted its first off-track betting...
Open Culture
Hunter S. Thompson Remembers Jimmy Carter’s Captivating Bob Dylan Speech (1974)
51 years ago, Hunter S. Thompson wrote Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72, which “is still...
3 weeks ago
51 years ago, Hunter S. Thompson wrote Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72, which “is still considered a kind of bible of political reporting,” noted Matt Taibbi in a 40th anniversary edition of the book. Fear and Loathing ’72 entered the canon of American political...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this...
7 months ago
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this week, but not quite ready to get started yet. I’m also thinking, perhaps before that, of doing a short post or set of posts on the organization of non-state ‘tribal’ societies in...
TheCollector
Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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TheCollector
What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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TheCollector
Who Was Carolee Schneemann? 8 Facts About the Legendary Performance Artist
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TheCollector
Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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a year ago
African History...
Textile trade and Industry in the kingdom of Kongo: 1483-1914
the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
a year ago
the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
TheCollector
Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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TheCollector
How Does Mona Hatoum Turn Ordinary Objects into Artworks?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
Is “neo-imperialism” the only path to development?
On Bill Warren's "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism"
a year ago
On Bill Warren's "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism"
TheCollector
Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Respect the Spartan Woman!
How was it for the ancient ladies?
a year ago
How was it for the ancient ladies?
TheCollector
How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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9 months ago
TheCollector
UNESCO Creates a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
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a year ago
TheCollector
When Was D-Day?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Carl Jung’s Theory of Archetypes: Major Archetypes, History, Criticism
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3 weeks ago
Open Culture
Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens...
a month ago
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
For the Love of the Classics
Valentine's Gifts
11 months ago
TheCollector
5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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a year ago
TheCollector
Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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a year ago
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit the Pyramids?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
In Defence of Boring Books
In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
9 months ago
In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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a year ago
TheCollector
6 Facts About Ilya Repin You Should Know
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TheCollector
How Did German Expressionism Shape Film Noir?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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TheCollector
What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take
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a year ago
TheCollector
Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Art of Pompeii
Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
6 months ago
Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
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