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10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
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Why Is Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
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Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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The 7 Best Historical Sites in Bangkok, Thailand
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Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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Putting Pirates on Trial
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What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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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 March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r, released a guide to diesel Engine Care.
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How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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How Did Socrates Die?
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
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J.S. Bach’s Life and Travels in Germany
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When Was the First Crusade?
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
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Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
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History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Auctioned for $6 Million
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10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
Summary Of Changes
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Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know
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Who was Thorkell the Tall?
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Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
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In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then the Holy Roman Empire (modern Germany) where he met Hiob Ludolf, an envoy and linguist whom later generations of ‘Ethiopists’ would regard as the founder of Ethiopian studies in...
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Who Won the Battle of Stones River?
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Why Are There Two Virginias?
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
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What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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Should poor countries remain poor?
Stock vs flow approach.
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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Racial Homicide Disparities Since 1910
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Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the evolution of black-white homicide disparities in the United States since the early 20th century.
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Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
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Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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African History...
The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
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Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
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From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
Flashbak
Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
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‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also refers to my relationship to my country.’ — Harry Gruyaert Harry Gruyaert’s photographs show his preference for shooting in the street, where he can capture the unexpected, most...
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A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I...
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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
Dr Alun Withey
Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave!
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today...
over a year ago
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today is usually a pretty mundane – if not a pleasant – experience. Indeed, the rise of traditional barbershops over the past few years, offering shaving as an experience, together with...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
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6 months ago
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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History Today Feed
Aliens and the Enlightenment
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What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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What Was Operation Downfall?
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Here’s How AI Completed Keith Haring’s Work
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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CrimethInc.
Georgia: The Firework Protests : A Report and Video Footage from the Streets of Tbilisi
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government...
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Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
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Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
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Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
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“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and difficult,” says Richard Feynman at the beginning of his 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine. “One of the things that makes it very difficult is that it takes a lot of imagination. It’s very...
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he...
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Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
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Getting Used To Being Weak.
It's worse than you probably imagine.
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Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
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More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History
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What Are the Recurring Symbols in Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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Class Begins Tomorrow
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7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
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“As long as I am alive, I will be a photographer. I will never retire” – Dorothy Bohm Dorothy Bohm (22 June 1924 – 15 March 2023) was born Dorothea Israelit in June 1924 in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), to a Jewish German-speaking family. In 1939 she was...
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War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
TheCollector
Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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Flashbak
Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
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a year ago
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
TheCollector
Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in...
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The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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Flashbak
The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone,...
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“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter ...
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New Acquisitions: 1933 and the Definition of Fascism
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a month ago
Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if Donald Trump is running for President as a fascist. Worry not, this isn’t me shifting to full-time political pundit, nor is this the formal end of the hiatus (which will happen on...
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
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7 months ago
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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Res Obscura
Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy?
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind....
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We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
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This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
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Gaius Marius
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... and the Fall of the Republic
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Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
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A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further sightings in various locations in the region have been lodged on a daily basis, and anxieties about the origin and purpose of these unidentified flying objects have grown apace. “We...
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Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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The Pilgrim as a Historian
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10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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Wuxing: What Are the Five Elements of Chinese Philosophy?
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What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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Let's Be Enemies
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Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
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For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
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How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
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How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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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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How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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8 Spots for Exploring Indigenous Art in the American Southwest
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10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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5 Military Geniuses From History
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Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales
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Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
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The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
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L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
Another of my essays in French.
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Another of my essays in French.
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10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
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Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in particular the oddity of the Romans not using spear-and-shield infantry (much), but it isn’t ready yet and other things have me quite busy, so fireside it is. Fortunately, we have...
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Grand Egyptian Museum Partially Opens to the Public
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Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of...
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Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
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5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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African History...
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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The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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A history of the Lozi kingdom. ca. 1750-1911.
state and society in south-central Africa
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state and society in south-central Africa
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Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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The Sand Creek Massacre: A Horrific Tale of Betrayal & Greed
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10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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13 Surprising Facts About William Shakespeare
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A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
One I bought fifty years ago.
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Italian vs. Northern Renaissance Art: What’s the Difference?
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What makes a good friend?
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'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
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9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
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These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
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Does Marcus Matter?
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
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Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
TheCollector
Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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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
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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In Search of Homer Trip Opening
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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
Wrong Side of...
Soothing the injured spirit of the Temple
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The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
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What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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African History...
**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history
plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor
The Life and Work of Pheidias
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The Life and Work of Pheidias
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When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Rabbit Waves and Logbooks. Updated woodstove installation, no windlass with 1 photo, mini dodger and Victoria to Sitka logbook with Week 3...
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...
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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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When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
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8 Works of Paul Klee You Should Know
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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Dreams of Space -...
The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed...
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Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed it :) . It was a premium with Mickey Mouse Weekly magazine. Evidently the magazine came with some pages that you could fold up into a tiny book. The others I have found evidence of...
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The Musée d’Orsay Held An Immersive Van Gogh Show
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Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
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The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
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The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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Who Was Hilma af Klint? 7 Facts About the Pioneer of Abstract Art
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7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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The Two Trojan Wars
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Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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The Life of Terence
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Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination
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Belgian Revolution: The Independence Movement That Surprised Europe
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Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:50
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
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Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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Alexander’s Destruction of Thebes in 335 BCE (Battle & Aftermath)
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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Italian Police Thwart “Tomb Raiders” at Etruscan Burial Site
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11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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How Did Hokusai & Hiroshige Become so Famous?
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Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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A History of the United States Senate
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
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At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
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On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
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Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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12 Facts About Marina Abramović and Her Work
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Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican
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