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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
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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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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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Francis Bacon Portrait of George Dyer to Sell at Sotheby’s
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4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIa: How a Legion Fights
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second...
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This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander and the Roman legions. Last time, we looked at the Hellenistic army as a complete system, incorporating...
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Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
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Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
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The Obligatory End-of-Year Essay.
But do me a favour, and read it anyway.
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But do me a favour, and read it anyway.
TheCollector
Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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Dr Alun Withey
The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
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As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
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Italian vs. Northern Renaissance Art: What’s the Difference?
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Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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What Is Russian Futurism?
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Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
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Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny
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Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes...
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“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes Stephen Harmon, a retired lawyer who first lived on New York City’s West End Avenue and 73rd street. “I am a photographer and set out to preserve it on film because I knew the...
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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The Death of a Mnemonist
The Death of a Mnemonist
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Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
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The Death of a Mnemonist
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Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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Open Culture
99-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Sings & Dances in a Touching New Coldplay Video, Directed by Spike Jonze
There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music...
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There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music video, Mr. Van Dyke dances barefoot and sings knowingly a little off-key—before reflecting on a century of life on this planet. What is love? Is he afraid of dying? What does luck...
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Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who...
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These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who spent 32 years as a patient of the Hospital for Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders in Branice, Poland. Admitted to the hospital’s Psychopathological Art Expression workshop in...
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Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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Reforming England’s Divorce Law
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
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Tue, 03/12/2024 - 08:48
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Reforming England’s Divorce Law
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Tue, 03/12/2024 - 08:48
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
3 months ago
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
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Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime thrillers laced with smoky cynicism, femme fatales and amoral ambiguity first produced by Hollywood in the 1940s. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in...
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A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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African History...
Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
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Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
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Gaius Marius
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... and the Fall of the Republic
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Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD
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Journal of African cities chapter 6
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Who Was the Fifth Beatle?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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Overcoming Bias
Capitalism, Govt Causes Culture Woes?
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Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
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Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
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Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis verba fecit… This week we’re taking a brief look, by ACOUP Senate request, at Greek and Phoenician colonization in the ancient Mediterranean. In particular, the focus requested was...
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Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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The Mother of Rome
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5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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Trying to Understand...
No Left Turn
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Workers and Peasants we are not.
TheCollector
What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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Coach Rusty’s Art Goes Interactive With Top Tier Authentics
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8 Unmissable UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia
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Flashbak
It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970,...
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The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
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8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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Empress Theodora
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Why are MYTHS Important?
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5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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Dreams of Space -...
Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963)
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some...
11 months ago
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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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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TheCollector
Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works
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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...
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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...
History Today Feed
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
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Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
TheCollector
How Did the Megali Idea Shape Greece Until the Balkan Wars?
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Trying to Understand...
The Newer World Order.
But can they get their heads round it?
10 months ago
But can they get their heads round it?
Res Obscura
Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
Some lessons from history and archaeology
a year ago
Some lessons from history and archaeology
TheCollector
Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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TheCollector
Complete Kelmscott Press Book Collection Sells Out at Auction
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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A Brief History of Collecting Art
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TheCollector
Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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History Today Feed
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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Flashbak
‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres...
a year ago
When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres tour, Blondie got the call. Georgia-based southern rockers Stillwater couldn’t play. So would the New Yorkers deliver what 18,000 fans of the Canadian rockers packed into the...
Dreams of Space -...
Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago....
a year ago
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
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Patterns in Humanity
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Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
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Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an...
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In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
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What Is the History of the Guitar?
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
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4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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Trying to Understand...
The Year of Failing To Understand.
Not your usual end-of-year review.
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Not your usual end-of-year review.
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Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no...
11 months ago
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no point in trying to achieve anything else in life. As he put it: “If it’s not fun, there’s no point!” A new book of his conceptual photographs illustrates the point. Above, you can see...
Hidden History
The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had...
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The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had its origin some 400 years ago in early attempts by the Shoguns to ban gambling and European playing cards. History When the Portuguese arrived in Japan in 1543, they established...
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Who Was Vortigern?
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6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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The Art of Pompeii
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Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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Brussels Statue Supposedly Damaged by Irish Tourist
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A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore)
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, April 12, 2024
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for the annual Society for Military History conference coming at the end of next week. In an...
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Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
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Summary of changes for July 2023
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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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Slide Rule, released a little slide rule toy(Mastodon).
100r.co,...
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No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
The Threat of Back to Normal
Global power has always been distributed.
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Global power has always been distributed.
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Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
9 months ago
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of zodiac figures accompanied with text. It was made before 1844. “Maria Revere Balestier (daughter of Paul Revere and wife to the first American consulate to Singapore) was the...
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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What Is Thatcherism?
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What Is the Role of First Ladies in US Elections?
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Cimabue Fresco Restored to its Original Glory
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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In Search of Homer Trip Opening
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In Search of Homer Trip Opening
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How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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