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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court
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France’s Long March Against Racism
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France’s Long March Against Racism
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Newell Convers Wyeth Painting: From $4 to $191,000
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2
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Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight programs on TV: Rocket-Bye Baby.
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
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Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
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This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples raised armies to fight the Romans (and others) in the third through first centuries BC. Last time, we looked at the subsistence basis of these societies...
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Ancient Philosophy for Children
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Ancient Philosophy for Children
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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Greece's Forgotten Legacy
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
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Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
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Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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Sparta and… Scotland?
Laconic wit through the centuries
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Laconic wit through the centuries
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Hume on Personal Identity: Who Are We?
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
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The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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Who Was George Hodel?
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Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
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The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
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Toxic Walls: Why Was Victorian Green Wallpaper So Deadly?
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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Free Will Vs Determinism
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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Why Did Rome Fall?
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& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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The Grand Egyptian Museum Soon Opens for Visitors
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black...
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Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
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Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
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Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
African History...
a brief note on the history of Africans exploring their own continent
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
a year ago
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
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Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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Flashbak
Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and...
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Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and brew beer, the place has been sanctuary to immigrants for centuries and is now home to a large Bangladeshi community. In the 17th century, French Huguenots arrived and brought with...
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13 English Words with Greek Origins
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb
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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day
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Who Was Carl Gustav Jung?
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Open Culture
Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
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Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
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The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
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What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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Who is Mierle Laderman Ukeles?
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Flashbak
Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
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With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
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4 Novels by John Steinbeck You Should Read
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Who Won the Battle of Perryville?
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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Trying to Understand...
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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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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
a year ago
A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
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The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
Aliens and the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
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Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
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Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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Danish Unknown Royal Family Discovered Thanks to Ring
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Who Were the Most Important Disciples of Jesus Christ?
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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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The Fall of a Republic
Cato and Caesar
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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“I Have a Dream”: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
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Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
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Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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Trying to Understand...
Russia/Ukraine is not a sports competition.
Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
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Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank...
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Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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Hidden Figure Identified in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco
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Dr Alun Withey
Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century....
over a year ago
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century. During this period, a whole range of retailers advertised their goods and services to appeal to ladies and gentlemen of taste. Without discussing anything so base as price or...
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History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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Trees at Night: Art Young’s Haunting Silhouettes, 1927
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands...
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“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. As a man is, so he sees.” – William Blake Arthur Henry Young – better known as Art Young (January 14, 1866–December 29, 1943) – saw humanity in the … Continue...
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What Is Marcel Duchamp’s Most Famous Painting?
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African History...
The role of firearms in African military history, and the guns of the Benin kingdom.
"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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Two Paintings Once Stolen by Nazis Are Donated to the Louvre Museum
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Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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Cimabue Fresco Restored to its Original Glory
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7 Works by Romaine Brooks You Should Know
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8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy
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