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Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
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Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
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Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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Summary of changes for November 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, drew some new art(Mastodon), finalized a few translations(Mastodon), and released it the project on Itchio!
Thousand Rooms, translated the...
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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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Bringing It All Back Home
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If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
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rainy with a chance of mosquitoes
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign...
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Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign and just as wild, except instead of hungry lizards there are mosquitoes, also known as the vampires of the Marquesas.
Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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What is the History of Christmas? A Journey Through Time
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5 Military Geniuses From History
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Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism
Heraclitus against Parmenides
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Heraclitus against Parmenides
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Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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Ed Ruscha’s Artists’ Books: An Innovative Approach
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What Was Kantai Kessen?
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5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVa: Philip V
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This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look at why the thing to use to beat a Macedonian sarisa phalanx is, in fact, a Roman legion in the third and second century BC. Last time, we finished our look at the third-century...
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What Was Jim Crow?
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Who Were the Wright Brothers?
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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Who Was Vortigern?
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The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore)
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim...
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Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
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The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
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5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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African History...
Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper...
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In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper reported that “The king shows himself only once a year to his people, going out of his court on horseback, accompanied by three or four hundred noblemen on horseback.”
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The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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Leonora Carrington Painting Set to Quadruple Auction Record
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Trying to Understand...
Out Of Control.
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
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Fear the worst, hope for the best.
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42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
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The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the astrological magazine The Prophetic Messenger (1827 to 1861). More commonly known as Raphael’s Almanac in a nod to the Jewish archangel Raphael, the name was used a nom de plume by a...
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,”...
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Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
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Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
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Again. In a manner of speaking.
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Democracy
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The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
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I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
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Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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French Culture Minister Calls For Climate Activism Penalties
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What Are the Five French Republics?
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What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July
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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, added image maps, animation controls, and wrote a guide....
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The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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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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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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Where parents make a difference
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Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
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Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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What Is a Medieval Morality Play?
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The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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What Is the History of Valentine’s Day?
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New York City In The 1960s – A Photographer’s Love story
For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that...
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For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that I love – New York City,” she says. ” On a good day, I move with the rhythms of the city and feel connected to its soul, spirit and people. The camera is the tool that allows me …...
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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The Indigenous Architecture of the Cosmos in the Amazon
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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‘Ain Ghazal: One of the Oldest Places in Human Civilization
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Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
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10 Cultural Sites in New York City You Should See
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Who Was Hilma af Klint? 7 Facts About the Pioneer of Abstract Art
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6 Places to Visit in Cape Town for History & Art Lovers
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Japanese Martial Arts: How Were They Invented (and Exported)?
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How to Revive Wassailing
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In 2016, we left Canada, armed with our two iPhones and 2 MacBooks Pros. We didn't know the wattage of any of the devices we owned, and even less about the amount of solar needed to...
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
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Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
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The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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What’s the History of Gin?
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Free French Bombers Over France
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Free French Bombers Over France
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
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This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
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Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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What Is an Antipope?
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Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
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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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4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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Faces of Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
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Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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10 Historic Towns in Colorado Perfect for Retirement
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10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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Recidivism in Norway
Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
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Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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Mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait Sells for $32 Million
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The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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Who Is the Most Famous Centaur?
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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