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As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
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The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power...
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The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power between various factions with various degrees of support from Russia, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. Over the past few days, however, taking advantage of the ways that Iran...
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Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Art Basel Miami Beach Faces Protests
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The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François...
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These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François Brunery (1849 – 1926), and used as the basis for his work as a painter of so-called “Cardinal Paintings”. His work depicting cardinals of the Catholic church in comical or embarrassing...
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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What Was the Chaco War?
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
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Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
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Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the...
a year ago
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
a year ago
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
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Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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Fra Angelico’s Theology & Aesthetics in 3 Extraordinary Paintings
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What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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No Way Out
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
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Some of the world's problems have no solution.
TheCollector
The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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Was Vincent van Gogh Religious?
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
11 months ago
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
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Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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Weekend Roundup
The Early Years of Jesus
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Was Walt Whitman a Transcendentalist?
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10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
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3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination
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How to Steal From Homer
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
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Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
TheCollector
The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
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On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various times by Morris, John Prine, and Marianne Faithfull.
TheCollector
How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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Get to Know Alma Mahler: Composer, Muse, and Scandalous Woman
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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Who was Thorkell the Tall?
Who was Thorkell the Tall?
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Who was Thorkell the Tall?
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/27/2024 - 10:20
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Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
African History...
A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894)
Urbanism in the forest region.
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Urbanism in the forest region.
TheCollector
Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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Latest Pompeii Discovery is a Rare Blue Room
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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Weekend Roundup
Aristotle's Politics
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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Why I love etymologies
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
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Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words matters
Classical Wisdom
Sappho
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The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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Empress Theodora
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The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
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Seamus Heaney
A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of...
11 months ago
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of Hellenistic warfare and the triumph of the Roman legion. Our core question is a really common one: why was the Roman legion able to decisively defeat the Hellenistic...
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New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:46
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:46
TheCollector
9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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Classical Wisdom
Aeneas: Founder of Rome
The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
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The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
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.
TheCollector
How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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Open Culture
99-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Sings & Dances in a Touching New Coldplay Video, Directed by Spike Jonze
There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music...
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There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music video, Mr. Van Dyke dances barefoot and sings knowingly a little off-key—before reflecting on a century of life on this planet. What is love? Is he afraid of dying? What does luck...
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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Flashbak
People of the Twentieth Century: the Ideal German, the Nazi and the Persecuted Jew
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the...
5 months ago
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times.” – August Sander, creator of Menschen des 20 Jahrhunderts (People of The 20th Century) What you see above is a picture of Arnold Katz and Benjamin (Benno) Katz being...
Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Dress Codes?
Are standards elevating or elitist?
a year ago
Are standards elevating or elitist?
TheCollector
The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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African History...
The radical philosophy of the Hatata: a 17th century treatise by the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
TheCollector
The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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Who You Are Vs. What You Control
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other...
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If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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You And Whose Army?
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
a year ago
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
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Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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5 Inspirational Women From the Second World War
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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On 17th century "cocaine"
A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
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A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
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Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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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...
10 months ago
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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Cronus: The Titan Leader in Greek Mythology
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Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial
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Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park...
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At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
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The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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Trying to Understand...
Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.
You don't need to know that.
9 months ago
You don't need to know that.
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
3 months ago
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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