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Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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How to Revive Wassailing
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What Was the Religion of the Ancient Phoenicians and Carthaginians?
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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What Is the Hill of the Buddha?
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
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The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no...
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The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no matches. How did they manage to smoke?” Robin: “They threw one cigarette overboard and the boat became a cigarette lighter.” – The Question asked in Batman, 1966 The question mark...
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Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE)
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Fiction vs Fantasy: What’s the Difference?
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Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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Trying to Understand...
Books To Help Us Understand The World?
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
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Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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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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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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Who is Ana Mendieta? An Icon of Environmental Art
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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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A Wasting Asset?
Europe turns away from America.
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Europe turns away from America.
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A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
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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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Christie’s Presents Two Latin American Art Sales, Starting Friday
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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Mon, 10/28/2024 -...
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Mon, 10/28/2024 - 10:04
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7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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A History of the US House of Representatives
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What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive...
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Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive that speaks of her talent as a street and press photographer, writer and collector, most notably of vintage dog photographs which now live at London’s Bishopsgate Institute. “Mine...
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
The Allure of Medieval Churches
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Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
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Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
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What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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Have We Become Anti-Human?
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
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Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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Art Basel 2024 Opens to the Public: Here Are Some of Its Highlights
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What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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Open Culture
Francis Ford Coppola Picks His Favorite Criterion Movies & Gives Advice to Filmmakers
Upon stepping into the hallowed Criterion Closet, stocked with hundreds of that cinephile video...
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Upon stepping into the hallowed Criterion Closet, stocked with hundreds of that cinephile video label’s finest releases, Francis Ford Coppola speaks of a director who “believed in a film he wanted to make, and used his entire fortune, because the financing system of the time...
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What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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Memphis Citizens Call for End to New Art Museum
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Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
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A Strange Defeat.
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
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A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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Overcoming Bias
Hail Jeffrey Wernick
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional...
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I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional markets to make org decisions.
African History...
The colonial myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in medieval Islamic geography: the view from Egypt and...
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4 Villains From the Arthurian Legends Who Really Existed
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4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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The Infancy Gospel of Thomas & the Childhood of Jesus Christ
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Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures...
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A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures the spirit of doing it for yourself as Johnny and his friends build (and dream of) a spaceship for a journey from their backyard. It is pure fantasy but as you will see there is a...
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What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched...
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On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched high above the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, France. The wedding of two members of the Franco-Czechoslovakian (Diables Blancs) White Devils Company was overseen by Father Robert...
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What's Left ... And What's Left?
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
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A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
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Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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Louis XIV: History’s Longest-Reigning Monarch
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The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism?
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Fisher Landau Sale at Sotheby’s Brought $406 M.
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Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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FDR: How Roosevelt Won Unprecedented Four Presidential Elections
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
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Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
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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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
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Volksgeist: Who Was Johann Gottfried Herder?
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigrant assimilation in Denmark
A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
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A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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Summary of changes for September
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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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the...
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This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
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What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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Ancient Marble Zeus Head Unearthed in Türkiye
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Restoration Reveals Ancient Colors of Egypt’s Edfu Temple
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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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5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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Res Obscura
Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
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Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
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Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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Previously Unknown Giorgione Painting Found in Germany
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Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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What is the Eye of Ra?
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