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Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
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Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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How Did Solomon’s Temple Influence Worship?
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How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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China’s Communist Comic Books
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What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids?
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Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
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Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
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Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
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How Every Empire Falls
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10 Curious Facts About Johnny Cash
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Socrates' Wayward Student
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What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
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Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
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Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages
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Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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What Made Tintoretto the Greatest Master of the Renaissance?
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo Compression’, we see people riding the trains. As he writes: “The images create a sense of discomfort as his victims attempt to squirm out of view or simply close their eyes, wishing the...
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What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques
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Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
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Art Basel Miami Beach Faces Protests
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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7 Most Impressive Villas and Palaces to Visit in Rome
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How Did Descartes View Animals?
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What Are the Top 7 Must-See Attractions in Mallorca?
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10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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The Two Trojan Wars
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Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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What Was the Mason-Dixon Line?
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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History of Chariots: 10 Types from Ancient Cultures Explained
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7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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