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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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7 Fascinating Facts About the Vestal Virgins
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Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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Overcoming Bias
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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Res Obscura
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‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
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This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
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This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
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Discover the Lost Culture of San Agustín in Colombia
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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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Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease pudding and saveloys, what next is the question? Rich gentlemen have it boys – in-di-gestion! – Food Glorious Food from the muscial oliver by Lionel Bart, 1968 You didn’t need...
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
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In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
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What Were the Religious Beliefs of Hans Holbein the Younger?
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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How Can We Prevent Character Assassination?
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What Is Anti-Natalism?
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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KAWS: 11 Things You Should Know
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How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
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Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
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James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
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Flashbak
Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s...
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In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
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Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
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History of Chariots: 10 Types from Ancient Cultures Explained
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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10 Historic Towns in Texas Perfect for Retirement
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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Top 10 Depictions of the Annunciation in Art
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Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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Hidden History
The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident
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In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at Kirtland Air Force Base just outside of Albuquerque NM. In January 1950, President Harry Truman announced that the United States would begin a crash program to develop and deploy a weapon...
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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What Are the 7 Most Spoken Languages in the World?
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African History...
The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
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At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
Flashbak
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...
Global Inequality...
Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
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I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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Iakim Volkov’s Wedding: An Illustration of a Complicated History
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Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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Classical Wisdom
Magna Graecia
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
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African History...
a brief note on African travel literature in history
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
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a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
TheCollector
The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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5 Notable Inmates of Tartarus & Their Crimes
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Anglo-Saxon England’s Last 50 Years: A True Game of Thrones
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Open Culture
Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
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The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
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Coach Rusty’s Art Goes Interactive With Top Tier Authentics
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African History...
A history of the Damagaram sultanate of Zinder: ca. 1730-1899.
Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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Collectible Toys Worth $1000s: Rare Finds With High Prices
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Top 10 Plays by William Shakespeare
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Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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5 Famous Black Mexicans
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
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Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 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 August.
Summary Of Changes
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What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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Who Was the Fifth Beatle?
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Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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Pace Gallery Will Represent the Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative
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Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
a year ago
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
Open Culture
The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have...
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Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
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Flashbak
The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
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In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
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The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in...
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Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
Dreams of Space -...
Yuri's Night is April 12th!
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri...
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Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri Gagarin 1st manned flight into space in Vostok 1, which completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. So this book is also from 1961 suggesting that children should dream of this...
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What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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Res Obscura
Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis
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Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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Dreams of Space -...
Dream to Meet(1958)
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded...
a year ago
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
Lyapunov, B. Illustrated by Seleznev, E. Навстречу Мечте (Dream to Meet.)
Moscow: All-Union Educational Pedagogical...
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5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon
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Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
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Classical Wisdom
Socrates and the Soul
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Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me...
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“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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Trying to Understand...
Reality Would Like A Word.
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Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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