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The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
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The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
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https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
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This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome, running from the late fourth through the first century BCE, a period that, relevant for today’s discussion, covers the Middle and...
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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How Did Descartes View Animals?
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Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
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What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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Germanus of Auxerre and His Connection to Arthurian Legends
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the Hellenistic army and its Macedonian phalanx and the Romans with their legions. Last week, we looked at the weapons, organization and fighting style of the Macedonian phalanx, the infantry...
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