Patterns in Humanity
Immigrant assimilation in Denmark
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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Euripides’ Lost Plays
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
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Gifts for Wisdom Lovers
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Socrates' Wayward Student
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...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
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The textile trade of pre-colonial Africa
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Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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7 months ago
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Capoeira’s Incredible Roots: Brazil’s Unique Art Form
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Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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The 4 Most Important Cultures in Ancient Anatolia
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3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History
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What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
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What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs
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Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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Bob Dylan Reads “ ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” On His Holiday Radio Show (2006)
Allow me to name just a few of the people I want to hear hosting and curating radio shows—former Sex...
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Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
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Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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Happy Holidays!
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments)
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Cimabue Fresco Restored to its Original Glory
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African History...
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps
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The Grand Egyptian Museum Soon Opens for Visitors
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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In the Shallows Of The Deep State.
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TheCollector
How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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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...
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Rastafari Philosophical Tenets: Divinity Within & African Redemption
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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The Great Flood
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
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Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
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Artemisia of Caria
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
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Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
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‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
a year ago
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
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Patterns in Humanity
When few do great harm
Power laws in criminal behavior
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Wrong Side of...
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What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
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Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
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Classical Wisdom
How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
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The Death of A New Jersey Shopping Mall
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next...
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The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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10 National and State Parks in the US Where You Can See Ancient Redwoods
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Summary of changes for February
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over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
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Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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African History...
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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,...
Flashbak
Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain...
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
12 months ago
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
History Today Feed
Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
Dreams of Space -...
A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
4 months ago
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How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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The 5 Most Ridiculous Ways the CIA Tried & Failed to Kill Fidel Castro
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Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the...
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Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, added back corrected chapters 1-7 to...
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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What Is Anxiety to Soren Kierkegaard?
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The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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Summary of changes for January
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over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
Left, re-wrote documentation, redesigned the UX for...
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Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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Shocking Scandals: 10 of the Most Controversial US Elections
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Out Of Control.
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5 Notable Inmates of Tartarus & Their Crimes
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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What Is a Film Auteur?
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The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
a year ago
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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The Metamorphoses du Jour by JJ Grandville – 1829
Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville...
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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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Newest Banksy Mural Guarded After Vandalism
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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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The Eiffel Tower: 12 Facts About the Iconic Parisian Landmark
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Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
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With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
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Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon
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Do You Believe in Magic?
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
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Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
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Dutch & Flemish Vanitas Paintings: A Theme for the North’s Golden Age
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Democracy
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The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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What is the Eye of Ra?
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and...
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Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
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Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
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Sappho: The Lost Poetess
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Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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7 Wars That Nearly Happened (But Didn’t)
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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Newell Convers Wyeth Painting: From $4 to $191,000
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The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
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Freak Shows: The Truth Behind Beauty and the Beast
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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Modernism vs. Postmodernism: Two Genres Explained in 6 Facts and 13 Artworks
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What Is the History of the Guitar?
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Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank...
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Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
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4 Important Philosophers of German Idealism You Should Know
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Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Kids–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK...
I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a...
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I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a cold and grim Christmas in 1977, that’s exactly what happened. While many Britons were settling in for a warm yuletide, the Pistols decided to host a party/benefit for the...
Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
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over a year ago
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids?
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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I Want To Be A Space Pilot (1961)
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
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Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
I Want To Be A Space Pilot is part of a series of children's books called "I want to be..." They are essentially a beginning to read career book. I like the very basic illustrations and the straightforward text. I also...
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
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Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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5 Timeless Financial Tips from Greek and Roman Philosophers
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The Myth of the Minotaur
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Journey Into the Labyrinth
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Tate Modern Reopens Its 10th Floor Viewing Platform
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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The “Arch”: Who Was Desmond Tutu?
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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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Abstract Expressionist Alfred Leslie Through 7 Paintings
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Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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Emotions: Better Out or In?
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Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
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The Stars of Sun Records: 4 Famous Singers
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
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Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
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Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
The Search for the Historical Buddha
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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An indispensable organization
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An indispensable organization
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Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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Hundred Rabbits
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We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
over a year ago
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
'If we can't...
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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What Is Voguing?
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Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and...
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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...
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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Do You Listen Well?
Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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10 Historic Cities for Expats Around the World
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Exploring the Troubles in Belfast and Derry (Monuments & History)
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What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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The Mother of Rome
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My interview with "Atlantico"
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
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How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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England’s Museum Collections Missing More Than 1,700 Objects
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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Xerxes the Great
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The Sense Of An Ending.
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But right back where we started from.
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
a year ago
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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Final Call
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the...
a year ago
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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In Defence of Boring Books
In Defence of Boring Books
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In Defence of Boring Books
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Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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Ukraine In NATO Would Be A Disaster ...
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But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
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Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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The Meroitic script and the documents of ancient Kush (ca. 300BC-450CE)
The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic...
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The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic scripts of the ancient world.
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French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as...
a year ago
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its...
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
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This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi, a Thai folding book that opens from top to bottom. It was made in the 19th century in central Siam (now Thailand) by an unknown artist. Such folding books were typically made from...
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The Fall of a Republic
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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The Story of Thebes
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten...
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From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten city-state...
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‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
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‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
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Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
A Collection of...
Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
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Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
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10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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What Is the History of Constitution Day in the US?
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Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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