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NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
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10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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Julius Caesar: From General to Dictator (Bio, Battles, & Death)
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 1, 2023
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Hey everyone!
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
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How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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What Is the Ides of March?
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Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
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In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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8 Must-See Highlights From London’s Soane Museum
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
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Overcoming Bias
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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Classical Wisdom
The Myth of the Minotaur
Journey Into the Labyrinth
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Journey Into the Labyrinth
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Sodom and Gomorrah
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Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact
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Patterns in Humanity
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Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
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Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
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‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
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What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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Dreams of Space -...
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What Can You Expect to See at the Spring Temple Buddha?
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
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Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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Beware the Lides of March
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Beware the Lides of March
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Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
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Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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