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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
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London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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over a year ago
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
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Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
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Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
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From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
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Gap Week: August 2, 2024
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Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
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Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
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4 Feminist Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
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Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
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Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
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A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of zodiac figures accompanied with text. It was made before 1844. “Maria Revere Balestier (daughter of Paul Revere and wife to the first American consulate to Singapore) was the...
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
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These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
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5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History
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Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
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How Does Mona Hatoum Turn Ordinary Objects into Artworks?
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
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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.
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Wiktopher, drew some new art(Mastodon), finalized a few translations(Mastodon), and released it the project on Itchio!
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France’s Long March Against Racism
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How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History
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Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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The pyramids of ancient Nubia and Meroe: death on the Nile and the mortuary architecture of Kush
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a complete history of an African monument
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The world according to Garegnani
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What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference?
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The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems...
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How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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What Was the Relationship Between Cezanne and Zola?
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The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
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How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
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How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
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Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
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UK Gallery to Recreate “Groundbreaking” 1907 Exhibition
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Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
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Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
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