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I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
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What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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Classical Wisdom
Does Karma Exist?
Does what goes around come around?
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Does what goes around come around?
Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
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This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
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5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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Calm in the Face of Crisis
Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
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Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August
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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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
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5 Notable Inmates of Tartarus & Their Crimes
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Left, re-wrote documentation, redesigned the UX for...
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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African History...
A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala.
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies,...
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It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies, according to an authoritative study by Eugenia Herbert.
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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NY Denny Gallery Shuts Down After Ten Years
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History Today Feed
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
Trying to Understand...
Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
Some people never grow up.
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Some people never grow up.
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Here’s What to Know About the Oldest High School in America
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
8 months ago
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
6 months ago
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
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Essential Greeks LIVE Webinar Times
Join this year's course for a strong foundation in the Classics
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Join this year's course for a strong foundation in the Classics
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Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly?
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What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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For the Love of the Classics
Valentine's Gifts
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Ancient Olympics
History of the Games
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
TheCollector
Chili Pepper’s Fiery History: The Berry That Conquered the World
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London’s National Portrait Gallery Opens First Francis Bacon Show
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4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
a year ago
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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Oskar Schindler: The Business Tycoon Who Became a Hero
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Lives of Exiles
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Who Was Ben Black Elk?
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Denmark
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
4 months ago
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
Classical Wisdom
The "New" Ancient City
Discovering Kavala...
7 months ago
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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Flashbak
Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and...
2 months ago
What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and white hints and pulls you in whereas colour can distract and reflect? LensCulture magazine celebrates black and white photography with is 2024 Black and White awards. “The enduring...
Trying to Understand...
War Is Complicated.
And not just the fighting bit.
a year ago
And not just the fighting bit.
CrimethInc.
Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the...
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On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the struggle for independence from Russian rule remains the chief force driving the popular mobilization that has been growing over the past several months. Yet today’s movement points to a...
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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Fisher Landau Sale at Sotheby’s Brought $406 M.
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Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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Parmigianino Altarpiece Back On View After 10-Year Conservation
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10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Battle of Poitiers, by Charles de Steuben, 1837, via Wikimedia Commons
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8 Sneaker Trends to be on the Look-out For in 2024
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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Dreams of Space -...
Looking Into Science (1965)
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965...
over a year ago
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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Francis Bacon Portrait of George Dyer to Sell at Sotheby’s
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Restoration Reveals Ancient Colors of Egypt’s Edfu Temple
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Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts
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Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire?
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Who Was Django Reinhardt?
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Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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Dr Alun Withey
Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing...
over a year ago
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing (published last week) about whether beards are finally ‘over’, and I thought it would be interesting to reflect on some of this. Since re-emerging around 2014, gaining popularity...
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Cimabue Fresco Restored to its Original Glory
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What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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History Today Feed
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
9 months ago
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
TheCollector
The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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The Anne of Cleves Louvre Portrait Got a Makeover
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Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a...
4 months ago
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a project to document New York City’s rich history of architecture and fashion. Cunningham dressed his friend and fellow photographer Editta Sherman (July 9, 1912 – November 1, 2013)...
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China?
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Who Was Vortigern?
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and...
6 months ago
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and brew beer, the place has been sanctuary to immigrants for centuries and is now home to a large Bangladeshi community. In the 17th century, French Huguenots arrived and brought with...
Open Culture
An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to...
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
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Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Art of the Interesting
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The Art of the Interesting
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Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it...
7 months ago
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it is 4pm in dear old England and it is carelessness of this kind that makes my eyes steel slits of blue. – Letter to James Bond author Ian Fleming Many … Continue reading "Dear...
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Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial
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Wrong Side of...
Europe's absent-minded revolution
Christopher Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', 15 years on
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Christopher Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', 15 years on
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
TheCollector
What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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African History...
The role of firearms in African military history, and the guns of the Benin kingdom.
"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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10 Must-Visit Historic Small Towns in the Adirondacks
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