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Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
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Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
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Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
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Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
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The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
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Who Are the Most Famous Sorceresses of Greek Mythology?
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Overcoming Bias
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Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
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Hundred Rabbits
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Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the...
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Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the limits of our space, and at first, it was difficult to create new things, as we had to make time to learn how to solve underlying problems. Our boat was not just an office, it was...
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The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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Laurie Anderson’s Mind-Blowing Performance of C. P. Cavafy’s Poems “Waiting for the Barbarians” &...
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In the video above, Laurie Anderson describes C. P. Cavafy’s poem “Waiting for the Barbarians” as being “set in ancient Rome.” That’s a reasonable interpretation, given that it contains an emperor, senators, and orators, though Cavafy himself said that none of them are...
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Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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