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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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Dreams of Space -...
Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book...
a year ago
Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book highlighting famous women, in this case: Valentina Tereshkova. I last blogged about this in 2009 so it was time for an expansion. It is unusual to find a biographical comic book...
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5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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Trying to Understand...
The Power Of Absent Things.
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
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It explains a lot about Ukraine.
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The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text...
8 months ago
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text book made from tempera and gold leaf on parchment. Shelf marked Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 0457, the work is a Latin translation of Avicenna’s Canon medicinae, one of...
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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Yuruparí: Amazon’s Unique Myth of Creation & Ritual of Passage
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Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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Ancient Philosophy for Children
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Ancient Philosophy for Children
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A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
7 months ago
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, updated jib cars, and added new recommendations on the...
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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great...
9 months ago
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” —Duane Michals Through image sequences, framing, multiple exposures,...
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What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
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The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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Trying to Understand...
A Week Off And A New Language
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a year ago
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Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
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Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
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Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition: What is an Active Life?
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Who Were the 43 Group?
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9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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African History...
A social history of the Lamu city-state (1370-1885)
Journal of African cities chapter 5
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Journal of African cities chapter 5
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
a year ago
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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African History...
**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history
plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
a year ago
plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
Trying to Understand...
Macron is Safe for the Moment
But the future worries me.
a year ago
But the future worries me.
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The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff
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Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it...
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Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it possible not only to analyse such visual wonders as the Parthenon in terms of music theory, but also to identify their corresponding musical harmonies and melodies, writes Carmel...
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A History of Phantom Pain
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
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A History of Phantom Pain
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Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
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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....
10 months ago
“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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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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Dr Alun Withey
Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one...
a year ago
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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Dionysus
The God of Wine!
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Trying to Understand...
The Sense Of An Ending.
But right back where we started from.
4 months ago
But right back where we started from.
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Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime ...
10 months ago
“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime Richard Klein, Professor of French at Cornell University and editor of Diacritics, quit smoking while writing Cigarettes Are Sublime and has been nicotine-free ever since. So do...
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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What Is First Corinthians About?
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Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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Who Was Vortigern?
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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NATO's Phantom Armies.
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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The True Knights Templar
The True Knights Templar
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Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
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The True Knights Templar
j.hoare
Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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Overcoming Bias
Who You Are Vs. What You Control
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other...
2 months ago
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
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Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name?
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How Iran Won the West
How Iran Won the West
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Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
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How Iran Won the West
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Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also...
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‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also refers to my relationship to my country.’ — Harry Gruyaert Harry Gruyaert’s photographs show his preference for shooting in the street, where he can capture the unexpected, most...
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
a year ago
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
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5 of the Most Important Magical Realist Writers
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs.
Fractran, released what might be the most in-depth...
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The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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Patterns in Humanity
Global crime
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
3 weeks ago
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
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Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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5 Inspirational Women From the Second World War
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One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
6 months ago
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown Heights to see the skaters at Brooklyn’s Empire Roller Disco. Formerly the Empire Rollerdrome (built 1941), the rink was now all disco. It was where Cher hosted the release party for...
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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Global Inequality...
Abundance, capitalism and climate change
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where...
8 months ago
In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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Francis Bacon Portrait of George Dyer to Sell at Sotheby’s
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Dreams of Space -...
Looking Into Science (1965)
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965...
over a year ago
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
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Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
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Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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Classical Wisdom
Who cares about Homer, anyway?
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
2 weeks ago
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
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What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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Dr Alun Withey
The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
a year ago
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Prometheus and AI?
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What Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England?
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10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
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Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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British Museum to Digitalize Its Collection
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Who Were the Toughest Women in the Old West?
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The Most Dramatic Operation to Recover Looted Native American Art
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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