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7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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Dr Alun Withey
The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners,...
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One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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The Death of a Mnemonist
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The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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The Enigmatic Archeology of Chichen Itza: A World Wonder
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns?
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A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
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Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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Hidden History
The Last Day of World War One
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
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At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
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How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
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Should you meet your heroes?
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US Returns 600 Stolen Artifacts to Italy
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Who Is Ai Weiwei?
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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Flashbak
Mazes and Labyrinths: An Illustrated History (1922)
“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” –...
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“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” – Philip K. Dick, VALIS William H. Matthews leads us through his 1922 book Mazes and Labyrinths from his home in Ruislip in the English county of Middlesex. Compiled shortly...
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Aristotle on Luck
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What Was the Oregon Trail? History and Legacy
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Bronze Age Town Found in Saudi Arabian Desert
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Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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African History...
A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
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In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
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Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
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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Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President
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Trying to Understand...
The Politics of Exhaustion.
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And the exhaustion of politics.
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How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
10 months ago
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
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History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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Open Culture
Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens...
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The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
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Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
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Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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Trying to Understand...
Things Are Falling Apart ...
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
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And the centre's not looking too good, either.
TheCollector
What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece
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Overcoming Bias
Beware Policy Abstraction
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The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly confirm that the issues focused on there were biased in two key ways.
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The Year's Midnight.
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
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Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
Trying to Understand...
Reality Would Like A Word.
Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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Grey Art Gallery at NYU Gets New Space and Name
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10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull
“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many...
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“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many inner city areas being bulldozed and instant slums being created on its outskirts. It seemed to have learnt nothing from the mistakes I had fought against during the previous decade...
Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
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I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
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London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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10 South American Artists You Should Know
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Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
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The Surprising Origins of Wonder Woman: A Revolutionary Comic History
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Somerset
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5 of Hildegard of Bingen’s Most Notable Works
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How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
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”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel’s new blood. Jean Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.” — Andy Warhol’s longtime studio...
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What Is the Didache?
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Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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Classical Wisdom
Should Drugs be Criminalized?
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
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Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
Global Inequality...
The end and the beginning of history
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Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism?
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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What Is Voguing?
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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What Were the Religious Beliefs of Hans Holbein the Younger?
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What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
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How can we train Resilience?
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How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines....
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Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines. A collection of his interviews, with the likes of Udo Kier, Divine, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Tura Satana, was published in the volume Dark Stars Rising: Conversations from the...
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Uncovering 5 Portraits From the Renaissance
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What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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What Was Kantai Kessen?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, added back corrected chapters 1-7 to...
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7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
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10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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5 Strange Election Systems Around the World
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
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When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
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Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
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“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
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What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
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Classical Wisdom
Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
Which Playwright did it better?
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Which Playwright did it better?
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The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In...
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Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In 1976, nine-year-old Amy Carter left her home in Plains, Georgia, and moved into the White House. People noticed the first child to live at the White House since the days of JFK. And...
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What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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