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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
JamesHoare
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
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Who Was Eusebius?
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Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints
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Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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Too Much of Not A Lot
Winning the day and losing the war.
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Winning the day and losing the war.
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6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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Global Inequality...
Should poor countries remain poor?
Stock vs flow approach.
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7 Most Impressive Villas and Palaces to Visit in Rome
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Kalimantan: Indonesia’s Hidden Gem for Animal Lovers
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They Say They Want Rearmament ....
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Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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Weekend Roundup
The Secrets of Crete
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
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Are Propaganda and Politics Inevitable Bedfellows?
And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
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And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
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Was Henry VIII Really a Protestant?
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Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece
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What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques
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Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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What Are the Books of the Old Testament? Order & Overview
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Ancien Régime France: 4 Harsh Realities of Life Before the Revolution
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Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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Weekend Roundup
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Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to...
2 months ago
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
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Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art...
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American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art catalog published by Collaborative Projects (Colab) and Printed Matter, Inc. for Christmas 1982. Colab sought cultural activism that was purely artist driven. In addition to creating...
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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How Can We Handle Anxiety?
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
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Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
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What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
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Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it...
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“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it begin now? – Charles Green Shaw This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) in the late 1920s or early 1930s (given the styling, it’s a...
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Samnite Wars: How Rome Conquered the Samnites (History & Aftermath)
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Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
5 months ago
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
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5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine
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Aristotle's Rhetoric
The Power of Persuasion
4 months ago
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Poland Nixes Planned Venice Biennale Pavilion
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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African History...
On Hegel's ignorance of African History
*my article for ROAPE journal
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*my article for ROAPE journal
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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The Diversity Paradox.
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10 months ago
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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3 Beautiful Places in the North of England Tourists Tend to Neglect
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Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
a year ago
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
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5 Inspirational Women From the Second World War
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Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of...
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Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
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Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
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The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
Wrong Side of...
Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
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Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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Lucio Fontana Piece Could Set Auction Record at Sotheby’s
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A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore)
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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Cold Snapshots – Vintage Holiday Fun in the Snow and Ice
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection...
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If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection of images. A dip into Robert E. Jackson’s sublime collection of snapshots never disappoints. And when you’ve seen the cards, you should enjoy his pictures of revellers rocking...
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What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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Overcoming Bias
Futarchy Futurism
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I have often taken on the role of econ futurist, analyzing the social consequences of particular future techs.
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What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand...
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We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
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Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
over a year ago
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
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Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name?
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A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
One I bought fifty years ago.
7 months ago
One I bought fifty years ago.
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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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The Death of Einhard the Historian
The Death of Einhard the Historian
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
9 months ago
The Death of Einhard the Historian
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
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What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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History of the Automobile: How Did We Get to Electric Vehicles?
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Italy to Open Its Largest-Ever Presentation of Willem de Kooning
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Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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10 History-Rich But Affordable US Cities You Can Move to
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in England
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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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a year ago
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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Religion in the Olympics
The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
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The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
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Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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Wieland: How Religious Extremism Shaped the 1st American Gothic Novel
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How Did Socrates Die?
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Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton...
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
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Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom.
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems...
a year ago
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
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Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
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What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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Discover Norman Rockwell’s America (& His Legacy)
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Why I love etymologies
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
7 months ago
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Women of Ancient Rome
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The First Roman Empress and More...
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
a year ago
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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The Life of Aristotle
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8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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The Enigmatic Archeology of Chichen Itza: A World Wonder
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First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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Patterns in Humanity
Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid...
a year ago
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid advancements in science and technology happening in the 1400s. With improvements in cartography, ship and other maritime technology, and an increased desire to understand and discover...
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12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a...
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“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
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Why Do Religions Decline?
Why Do Religions Decline?
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Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
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Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970,...
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The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
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Freak Shows: The Truth Behind Beauty and the Beast
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What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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Who are the Yazidis & What Are Their Beliefs?
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What Would a Day in the Public Baths of Ancient Rome Look Like?
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On the Obscenity of Ovid
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& Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
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Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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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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Norman Rockwell Works Dispute Finally Over?
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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Why Did Remedios Varo Paint So Many Self-Portraits?
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A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may...
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These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
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10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was...
9 months ago
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions. Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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Open Culture
A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
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The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
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Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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Putting Pirates on Trial
Putting Pirates on Trial
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
Putting Pirates on Trial
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
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Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s...
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The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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The Mystery of Penelope
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The Future of US Elections: Potential Changes and Emerging Issues
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What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
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“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The making of pictures is to writing what laughing gas is to the Asian influenza.'” – Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse Than Death Kurt Vonnegut liked to draw. Other writers, notably J.R.R....
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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Weekend Roundup
Celebrate Cicero!
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Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
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Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
Some lessons from history and archaeology
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10 of Rosalba Carriera’s Best Artworks
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Should We Navel Gaze?
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
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Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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The Prophecies of Merlin
The Prophecies of Merlin
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Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
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The Prophecies of Merlin
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Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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Why the Organ Split the Church
Why the Organ Split the Church
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
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Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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Explore Ancient Rome by Visiting These 6 Sites
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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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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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
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‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
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‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
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10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
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Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
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Basil Zaharoff: How to Play Both Sides, Sell Weapons and Get Rich
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Sex Before Sex Education
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How Mexico Fought Franco
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How Mexico Fought Franco
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Does FIRST Matter Most?
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Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
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London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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Catching Nessie on Film
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What Is the Didache?
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
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Toxic Walls: Why Was Victorian Green Wallpaper So Deadly?
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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Dreams of Space -...
Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
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I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
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5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
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For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
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Why Did Rome Fall?
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& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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6 Politicians & World Leaders Who Are Artists
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A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
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An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do.
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The Art of Pompeii
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Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy?
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The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
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