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How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
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What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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London Olympics and Tony Blair’s Decision on Parthenon Marbles
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444 Days: The Story of the Iran Hostage Crisis
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What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
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A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life?
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Plato On Knowledge
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6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
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Freak Shows: The Truth Behind Beauty and the Beast
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Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes...
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic...
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This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those...
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The Evolution of Socialism and Its Influence in the US
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HEMA: The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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Plato on Political Polarization
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What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
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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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8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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Fall of Berlin: How WWII Ended in Europe
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The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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The Great Depression in Europe: Here’s What Happened
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns
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Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
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What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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The Political Effects of the Vietnam War
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Healthy Skepticism for Better Debates
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The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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Life and works of Africa's most famous Woman scholar: Nana Asmau (1793-1864)
On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
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Before the police arrives: Bookstores on Saturdays
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I...
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I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
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Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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Denim: The Fabric That Built America
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images...
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Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images mostly from the 1940s, show how the fabric became synonymous with American grit and productivity. The look was born in 18th Century Europe. Bleu de Gênes was the rough fabric...
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Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
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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...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a...
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In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...
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Moon Trip (1958)
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Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
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5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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Who Were the Armored Pioneers Between the World Wars?
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Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte...
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Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
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Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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The Life of Aristotle
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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Euripides’ Lost Plays
Euripides’ Lost Plays
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Summary of changes for February 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, added back corrected chapters 1-7 to...
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Cj Hendry Lands in Miami With HOOPS Tree Installation
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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10 Forgotten US Presidents
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Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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Interview with Nicolas Party: Pastels, Rosalba Carriera, & More
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Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
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Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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7 of the Most Iconic Monuments in Russia
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Would You Kill the Fat Man?
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human...
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Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human beings, if they care about them at all?
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVa: Philip V
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look...
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This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look at why the thing to use to beat a Macedonian sarisa phalanx is, in fact, a Roman legion in the third and second century BC. Last time, we finished our look at the third-century...
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE)
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7 of the Most Popular Hats in History
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
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How to Save Democracy
The Importance of the Civic Bargain
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The Importance of the Civic Bargain
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Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off...
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On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
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What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In...
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Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In 1976, nine-year-old Amy Carter left her home in Plains, Georgia, and moved into the White House. People noticed the first child to live at the White House since the days of JFK. And...
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
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A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to take advantage of the excitement about this launch. So they had to include a booklet to explain why this slightly inaccurate model was so special. Imagine opening the model kit...
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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Architectural Wizardry: 4 Fascinating Works by Antoni Gaudi
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“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising
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A history of the Damagaram sultanate of Zinder: ca. 1730-1899.
Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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8 Works of Paul Klee You Should Know
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First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads....
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“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
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The Eiffel Tower: 12 Facts About the Iconic Parisian Landmark
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In...
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You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain – America, A Horse With No Name We don’t know where British … Continue reading "American...
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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What Is Pragmatism? (Philosophy, History, Notable Proponents)
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where is the turtle farm
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the...
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Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the market, or of the company to be found here, but just of having that same view every morning. We love this city, but when it's time to go, it's time to go!
We left our mooring at...
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue
This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look...
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This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look at how the Roman legions were able to overcome the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and second centuries BC. We have covered the decisive battles in the story, although...
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How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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The General History of Africa
a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
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a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
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