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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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10 Artworks by Yoko Ono You Should Know
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Hinduism in Bali: Things You Need to Know
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KAWS: 11 Things You Should Know
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Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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War Is Complicated.
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And not just the fighting bit.
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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Myths and Metamorphoses
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Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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If We Had More Than a Hammer ...
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What makes a good friend?
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'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
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Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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5 Inspirational Women From the Second World War
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Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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Cold Snapshots – Vintage Holiday Fun in the Snow and Ice
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection...
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If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection of images. A dip into Robert E. Jackson’s sublime collection of snapshots never disappoints. And when you’ve seen the cards, you should enjoy his pictures of revellers rocking...
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Who Was the Fifth Beatle?
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Thomas Gainsborough: 7 Facts You Need to Know
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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Trying to Understand...
So They Want Negotiations, Now.
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
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Have they any idea what they are talking about?
TheCollector
Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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Should We Be Skeptics?
Is it good to question everything?
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Is it good to question everything?
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Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
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Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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What is Modernity?
What is Modernity?
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What is Modernity?
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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What’s the History of Gin?
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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Ed Ruscha’s Artists’ Books: An Innovative Approach
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Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
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Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
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What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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10 Must-Visit Places Around the World for History Buffs
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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Weekend Roundup
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Banned Book Week Begins...
African History...
a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world.
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
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The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in...
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“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.” ― C.S. Lewis In his 1955 book Surprised by joy : the...
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Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
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In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
Hundred Rabbits
the rock of polynesia
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's...
over a year ago
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow?
We'd also heard that the school...
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has...
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“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Rosalind Fox Solomon got old. In …...
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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African History...
A complete history of Madagascar and the island kingdom of Merina.
State and society on Africa's largest island.
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State and society on Africa's largest island.
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Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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The Electoral College Explained
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African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
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Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
A Collection of...
Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
a year ago
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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Should Drugs be Criminalized?
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
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Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
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10 Historic Towns in Texas Perfect for Retirement
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What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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The Art of Pompeii
Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
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Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
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The Life of Malcolm X: “You Had Better Make Some Noise”
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Who Is Ai Weiwei?
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned...
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‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street. I notice a kind of relaxed sensuality in many of the pictures. Time moved more slowly;...
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3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
over a year ago
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
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4 Most Famous Alien Abduction Claims
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Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II,...
a year ago
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
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Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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Res Obscura
Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude
At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
a year ago
At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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Classical Wisdom
Essential Classics
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L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
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Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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The Indian Citizenship Act
The Indian Citizenship Act
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The Indian Citizenship Act
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Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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Trying to Understand...
Rules, Rules Rules
Because that's all they can do.
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Because that's all they can do.
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George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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UN Committee Votes Against “At Risk” Designation for Stonehenge
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome
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Interview with Dr. Roberta Bondar: Intertwining Art and Science
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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How Does the Electoral College Work?
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Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
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Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
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10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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What Is Voguing?
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Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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Open Culture
Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” Performed by a Choir of 4,000 Singers
Throughout the years, we’ve featured performances of Choir!Choir!Choir!–a large amateur choir from...
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Throughout the years, we’ve featured performances of Choir!Choir!Choir!–a large amateur choir from Toronto that meets weekly and sings their hearts out. You’ve seen them sing Prince’s “When Doves Cry,” Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” (to honor Chris Cornell), and Patti Smith’s...
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Monsters of Mythology
Who Made the Top Ten?
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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A History Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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