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10 Must-See Pirate Fortresses and Coastal Strongholds Around the World
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Will it Bend or Will it Break?
The international system, that is.
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TheCollector
Prince Charles III Portrait Defaced by Animal Right Activists
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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
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‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
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Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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Who Was Walt Whitman?
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Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
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over a year ago
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TheCollector
What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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Dreams of Space -...
Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey....
a year ago
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey. Gumby was a television show for children that ran (at least for me) from 1953-1969. It was stop-motion animated adventures of two figure made of "clay." It was a highlight of my...
TheCollector
Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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History Today Feed
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
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Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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A Collection of...
Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking...
a year ago
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
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The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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8 Sneaker Trends to be on the Look-out For in 2024
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Dionysus
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What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
TheCollector
Guimarães: 9 Historic Sites in Portugal’s Cradle City
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Classical Wisdom
Does Marcus Matter?
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
12 months ago
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
TheCollector
How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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History Today Feed
‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
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TheCollector
Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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Flashbak
Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
11 months ago
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
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Art of the Etruscans
Romans before the Romans
8 months ago
TheCollector
The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain?
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6 Incredible Roman Sites in Spain
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Was Emperor Nero Universally Hated During His Reign?
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Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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The Death of Literary Fiction.... And its Resurrection?
A New -different- Event
a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal.
Left, added a...
TheCollector
The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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London’s Old Master Sales Squeak by Expectations
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Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an...
a year ago
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
TheCollector
What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints
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History Today Feed
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
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Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
Classical Wisdom
Empedocles
The Philosopher God?
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Flashbak
The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and...
a year ago
Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and director of production at London-based publisher Faber & Gwyer (later Faber and Faber), hit upon the idea of sending poetry pamphlets, each featuring the work of well-known writers and...
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A History Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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8 Things You Should Know About Wangechi Mutu
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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Classical Wisdom
How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
3 months ago
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
TheCollector
Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
TheCollector
What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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Flashbak
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...
7 months ago
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...
Classical Wisdom
Oops! I did it again...
Getting our events straight...
a year ago
Getting our events straight...
TheCollector
Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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TheCollector
What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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TheCollector
Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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Trying to Understand...
Teach Your Children ....
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a year ago
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
TheCollector
What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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9 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
TheCollector
The Great Depression in Europe: Here’s What Happened
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TheCollector
What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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TheCollector
What is Pantheism in Art?
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8 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
doldrumming
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
over a year ago
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
TheCollector
What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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Global Inequality...
Changes in income distributions in China, India and the United States, 2018-23
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
2 months ago
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
TheCollector
The Life of Malcolm X: “You Had Better Make Some Noise”
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TheCollector
Shays’ Rebellion Explained: A New Governing System for the New US
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What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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Banksy’s Latest Artwork Is a Goat on a Ledge in London
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TheCollector
What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Be Afraid of Technology?
Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
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Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
TheCollector
8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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Hidden History
The Ancient Egyptian Game of Mehen
Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But...
a month ago
Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But recent study has completely changed the way we think about this game. History In 1861, French archaeologists Auguste Mariette and Jacques de Morgan found a tomb at Saqqara that was...
TheCollector
4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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4 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the history of Africans exploring their own continent
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
a year ago
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
Flashbak
Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
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Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
TheCollector
10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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Classical Wisdom
Origins of Latin Literature
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
a year ago
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
TheCollector
10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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Hundred Rabbits
the promise of pancakes
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had...
over a year ago
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
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Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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What Was the Hanseatic League?
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Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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Who Were the Allied Powers?
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What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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Classical Wisdom
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Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
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The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World
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War Stoppers and God Makers
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Why drug history?
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
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TheCollector
The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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How Does Mona Hatoum Turn Ordinary Objects into Artworks?
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7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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Phoolan Devi, Bandit Queen of India
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Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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Shocking Scandals: 10 of the Most Controversial US Elections
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Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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Comes the Hiatus, 2024!
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards...
3 months ago
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
History Today Feed
How French Was Medieval England?
How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
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How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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Sotheby’s to Auction Its First Robot-Made Artwork
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Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
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Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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Wrong Side of...
Welcoming the stranger
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What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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CrimethInc.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
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The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in Syria are not over. Israel has bombed hundreds of locations around the country and seized a considerable amount of land in the southwest, while Turkish proxy forces are threatening...
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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What Was the Kido Butai?
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7 Most Impressive Villas and Palaces to Visit in Rome
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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Italian vs. Northern Renaissance Art: What’s the Difference?
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The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
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A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures...
a year ago
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures the spirit of doing it for yourself as Johnny and his friends build (and dream of) a spaceship for a journey from their backyard. It is pure fantasy but as you will see there is a...
Classical Wisdom
Essential Greeks LIVE Webinar Times
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One Way Or Another ....
We're going to get you.
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Ancient Atomists
The Origins of Oppenheimer?
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The Origins of Oppenheimer?
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Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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Weekend Roundup
Last Chance!
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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Free Will Vs Determinism
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AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
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From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
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6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know
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Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome
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Alive! The Incredible Story of Hugh Glass
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Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story
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African History...
An episode of Naval warfare on the East African coast: the Sakalava invasions of 1792-1817
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
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Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
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The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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Trying to Understand...
The Evils Of Professionalism
In politics, anyway.
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The Musée d’Orsay Held An Immersive Van Gogh Show
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
TheCollector
The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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What Is Anxiety to Soren Kierkegaard?
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Patterns in Humanity
Racial Homicide Disparities Since 1910
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
a year ago
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.
TheCollector
Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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5 Victorian Fashion Trends: From Flammable Skirts to Poisonous Fabrics
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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Global Inequality...
The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version...
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China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
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What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Somerset
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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10 Forgotten US Presidents
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6 Facts About Hilla von Rebay: The Mastermind Behind the Guggenheim
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When Was the Era of Japan’s Bakufu?
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
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We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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A History Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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Who Is the Father of Pentecostalism?
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Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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Classical Wisdom
Is Subjective Equal to Objective?
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Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the middle of winter, and finally, around four months later, the first real spring day had arrived. The sun bore her rays magnificently, forcing the city’s residents into an ant-like...
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps
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“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that community can be brought in to exercise the way.” – Emma Hart Willard Emma Willard (February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was a trailblazing American educator who founded the first...
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Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo...
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Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo Compression’, we see people riding the trains. As he writes: “The images create a sense of discomfort as his victims attempt to squirm out of view or simply close their eyes, wishing the...
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What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
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In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
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Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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Rastafarianism: Religion or Philosophy?
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Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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A Clash Of Symbols
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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Overcoming Bias
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
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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.
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Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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What Is the History of the Blues?
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The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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Phillips 2023 Sales Dropped Down 15 Percent from 2022
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Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
What should we do with Seneca?
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What should we do with Seneca?
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Who Were the Armored Pioneers Between the World Wars?
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Plato On Knowledge
What is True?
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
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West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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Juan Rulfo: Whispers & Myths From Mexico’s Most Enigmatic Writer
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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A Fistful of Clockwork Oranges
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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How Did the Seasons Get Their Names?
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Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ Is Stolen, Then Recovered
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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