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What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings
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The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
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A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
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The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
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What Is Berlin Science Week? Everything You Need to Know
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Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
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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/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
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Dreams of Space -...
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Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s...
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In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
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September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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Rijksmuseum Begins Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’
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When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
a year ago
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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Was Henry VIII Really a Protestant?
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The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism
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What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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China’s Communist Comic Books
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The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
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African History...
A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra...
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Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra pay For sitting on their arse all day! – London Underground by The Amateur Transplants Peter Marshall shows us pictures of stations on the London Underground, Docklands light...
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A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
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An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
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French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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Who Were the Disciples James, John and Andrew?
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Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
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On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the struggle for independence from Russian rule remains the chief force driving the popular mobilization that has been growing over the past several months. Yet today’s movement points to a...
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Fra Angelico’s Theology & Aesthetics in 3 Extraordinary Paintings
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The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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David Roberts & Frederick Catherwood: Artists of Ancient Egypt & Maya
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Who’s in the Tomb?
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Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIb:
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This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at Paradox Interactives ancient grand strategy game, Imperator: Rome, which covers (inter alia) the period of the collapse of the Roman Republic, which we generally call the Late...
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and...
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“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883–April 10, 1931) published the collection Twenty Drawings, the first and only time a selection of his paintings had appeared in print....
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me...
10 months ago
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
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Van Gogh & Gauguin: A Fiery Friendship Between Two Post-Impressionists
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Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake
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At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
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On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
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8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy
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Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
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Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he first spotted at a swap meet in Pasadena, California. We don’t know who took these photographs of David Bowie backstage, James Brown meeting and greeting the fans and many other...
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What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
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What Was the Oregon Trail? History and Legacy
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Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a...
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When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
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Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
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Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
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Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
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László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
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Franz von Stuck: German Symbolist Painter & “Prince of Art”
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Open Culture
The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
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We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
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Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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8 Works of Paul Klee You Should Know
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Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave!
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today...
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Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today is usually a pretty mundane – if not a pleasant – experience. Indeed, the rise of traditional barbershops over the past few years, offering shaving as an experience, together with...
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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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Beware the Lides of March
Beware the Lides of March
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Beware the Lides of March
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4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
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Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales
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Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post...
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Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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Res Obscura
Why did clothing become boring?
An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like...
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An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like when they didn't
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Give All to Love: A New Documentary on Ralph Waldo Emerson Debuts
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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Juan Rulfo: Whispers & Myths From Mexico’s Most Enigmatic Writer
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African History...
a brief note on Africa in 16th century global history.
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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England’s Museum Collections Missing More Than 1,700 Objects
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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Hidden History
The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had...
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The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had its origin some 400 years ago in early attempts by the Shoguns to ban gambling and European playing cards. History When the Portuguese arrived in Japan in 1543, they established...
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Danish Unknown Royal Family Discovered Thanks to Ring
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