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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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Dreams of Space -...
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
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What to See on Vienna’s Long Night of Museums
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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Global Inequality...
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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a year ago
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won?
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Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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What Can You Expect to See at the Spring Temple Buddha?
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Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age (Video)
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9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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Who Were the Samaritans?
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First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
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How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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over a year ago
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Should We Follow Silly Laws?
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And what happens when we don’t?
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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Open Culture
Read J. R. R. Tolkien’s “Letter From Father Christmas” To His Young Children (1925)
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
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We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works
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Alive! The Incredible Story of Hugh Glass
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Immigration and crime: Denmark
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Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news...
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
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7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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How Mexico Fought Franco
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Art Philanthropy in the US Depends on Prestige
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
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Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
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What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
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Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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When Did the Korean War Start?
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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7 Famous Surrealist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
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Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
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In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper reported that “The king shows himself only once a year to his people, going out of his court on horseback, accompanied by three or four hundred noblemen on horseback.”
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Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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