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10 Must-See Exhibitions in Europe This Year (2025)
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
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We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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The Angolan Civil War: 26 Years of Fighting
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Mount Toba: Did a Supervolcano Almost Wipe Out the Human Species?
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9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career
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Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
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Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
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The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel.
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7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow?
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10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
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A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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Herodotus Versus Thucydides?
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What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve...
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Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities
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5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon...
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Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
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What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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Dreams of Space -...
The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
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The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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What Makes Jean-Luc Godard An Iconic Film Director?
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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Thomas Gainsborough: 7 Facts You Need to Know
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The Mystery of Agnes Martin in 7 Facts
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8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
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Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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Bob Dylan Reads “ ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” On His Holiday Radio Show (2006)
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‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May.
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
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10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in England
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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African History...
a brief note on the long history of African diplomacy.
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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Insurgent Survival : Reflections on the Fight Against Sweeps Targeting the Homeless in Austin, Texas
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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Searching In Science (1965)
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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The Life of Malcolm X: “You Had Better Make Some Noise”
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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Anarcho-Capitalism Explained in 5 Steps
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10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
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Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave!
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What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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Art Philanthropy in the US Depends on Prestige
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What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala.
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Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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A Charlie Brown Christmas uses a cast of amateur child voice actors, deals with the theme of seasonal depression, and culminates in the recitation of a Bible verse, all to a jazz score. It was not, safe to say, the special that CBS had expected, to say nothing of its sponsor, the...
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
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Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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What Does It Mean to Be a Critical Thinker?
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What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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10 Architectural Landmarks You Must See in Valencia
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The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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Patterns in Humanity
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches
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Andromeda: The Beauty of the Mediterranean
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How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
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Arguing with the Dead
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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The Election That Caused the Boer War
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Cecilia Beaux: Esteemed American Portraitist
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Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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26 Found Photos of Australian Life In the 1970s
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Who Was Tertullian?
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The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
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Understanding JS Bach in 5 Compositions
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What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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Out Of Control.
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‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
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It came in a...
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Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
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Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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The Revolt of the Outer Party.
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5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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Climate Vandal Painted Words in Red Next to a Civil War Exhibit
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What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
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Hell in the Bible: Eternal Damnation vs. Annihilationism
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Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry?
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The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay?
Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
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Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
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Inventing Cyrillic
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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Germanus of Auxerre and His Connection to Arthurian Legends
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How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Base (1959)
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base"...
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Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base" brings me a sense of excitement and nostalgia. In fact one of my treasures is my talking Dr. Evil Doll that says "Welcome to my moon base".
Nephew, William and Chester, Michael....
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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Seneca On Clemency
A Letter To Emperor Nero
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6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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