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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
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The demonstrators are responding to the...
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story
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The Election That Caused the Boer War
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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Farmer Discovers Massive Roman Mosaic in Türkiye
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‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
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The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
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The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted in one of the continent's longest-standing conflicts, which threatens to destroy the country's social fabric and its historical heritage. Just as the plight of modern Darfur...
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Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
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What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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What Was Organization Todt?
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Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
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World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
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In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
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At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
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London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
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“As long as I am alive, I will be a photographer. I will never retire” – Dorothy Bohm Dorothy Bohm (22 June 1924 – 15 March 2023) was born Dorothea Israelit in June 1924 in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), to a Jewish German-speaking family. In 1939 she was...
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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