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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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What is the WORD? How can we understand Logos?
Do Words Matter?
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Berlin Science Week? Everything You Need to Know
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Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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History Today Feed
The Election That Caused the Boer War
The Election That Caused the Boer War
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Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:19
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The Election That Caused the Boer War
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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CrimethInc.
Festivals of Resistance : A Call for Gatherings the Weekend Before Trump Takes Office
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
a month ago
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some odds and ends.
5 months ago
TheCollector
5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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2 months ago
Flashbak
Stock Car Racing in 1972
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in...
a month ago
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1972, women only raced each other, hair was grown out crewcuts slicked and draped, and TV-led big business had yet to move in....
TheCollector
4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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10 months ago
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4 Villains From the Arthurian Legends Who Really Existed
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3 months ago
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Audrey Flack, Pioneer of Photorealism, Dies at 93
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6 months ago
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Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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11 months ago
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Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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9 months ago
African History...
A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD
Journal of African cities chapter 6
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 6
Tjaart’s Substack
The curious case of the missing period
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
10 months ago
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
TheCollector
Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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11 months ago
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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2 months ago
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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6 months ago
Flashbak
The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always...
8 months ago
“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always been around, for those born now, computers, the internet and mobile phones are just stuff – in fact, it would be impossible for recent generations to imagine a world without these...
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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a year ago
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What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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a year ago
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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9 months ago
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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11 months ago
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New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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8 months ago
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World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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6 months ago
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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6 months ago
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Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China
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a week ago
TheCollector
History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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9 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
a year ago
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
TheCollector
Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History)
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3 weeks ago
History Today Feed
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
6 months ago
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
TheCollector
How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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a year ago
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How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Dolly Wilde: The Tragic Story of Oscar Wilde’s Niece
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3 weeks ago
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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History?
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8 months ago
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Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How to Celebrate the Love of Learning
Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
a year ago
Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
TheCollector
Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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11 months ago
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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a year ago
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5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style
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a year ago
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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8 months ago
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What Are the Most Similar Languages?
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3 months ago
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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6 months ago
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
Classical Wisdom
Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
a year ago
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
Flashbak
AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
11 months ago
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
Wrong Side of...
The chilling dawn of multiracial fascism
WOKE DOOD: WAT NOU?
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Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal
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What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest
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2 months ago
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Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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a year ago
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Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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a year ago
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10 Small but Historic Countries You Didn’t Know About
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African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of...
3 months ago
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
TheCollector
Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Vasari Sacristy: Breathtaking Artwork in Naples
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4 months ago
Flashbak
Hunter S Thompson Sets Fire To His Christmas Tree (1990)
“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller...
2 weeks ago
“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller before the writer torched his Christmas Tree In January 1990, Sam Allis was on assignment for TIME magazine at writer Hunter S. Thompson’s (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) home...
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Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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8 months ago
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How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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9 months ago
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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3 months ago
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The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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a year ago
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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9 months ago
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What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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a month ago
Open Culture
What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2025: Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Faulkner’s The Sound and...
Each Public Domain Day seems to bring us a richer crop of copyright-liberated books, plays, films,...
2 days ago
Each Public Domain Day seems to bring us a richer crop of copyright-liberated books, plays, films, musical compositions, sound recordings, works of art, and other pieces of intellectual property. This year happens to be an especially notable one for connoisseurs of Belgian...
TheCollector
Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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5 months ago
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Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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11 months ago
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Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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3 months ago
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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a year ago
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The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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9 months ago
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Marina Abramović Leads 7-Minute Silence at Glastonbury Festival
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6 months ago
African History...
The pyramids of ancient Nubia and Meroe: death on the Nile and the mortuary architecture of Kush
a complete history of an African monument
a year ago
a complete history of an African monument
Dreams of Space -...
The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
10 months ago
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
Clyne,...
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Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly?
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6 Micronations You Should Know
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The Stars of Sun Records: 4 Famous Singers
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8 months ago
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What Was Kantai Kessen?
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6 months ago
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Restoration Reveals Ancient Colors of Egypt’s Edfu Temple
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3 months ago
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The World’s Most Prestigious Art Fairs (By Continent/Region)
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Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Life of Plato
9 months ago
TheCollector
Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Quick Notification
In Search of Homer
2 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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a month ago
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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a year ago
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More Banksy Animals Appear Across London
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4 months ago
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Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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a year ago
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Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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3 months ago
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What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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11 months ago
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Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
over a year ago
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
TheCollector
Volksgeist: Who Was Johann Gottfried Herder?
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Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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2 months ago
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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a year ago
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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7 months ago
Flashbak
Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
8 months ago
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
TheCollector
What Is the History of the Piggy Bank? (Curious Origins)
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Classical Wisdom
Jews in the Roman Bathhouse
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
a year ago
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
TheCollector
Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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a year ago
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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3 months ago
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Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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7 months ago
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German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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a year ago
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“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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11 months ago
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Ancien Régime France: 4 Harsh Realities of Life Before the Revolution
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10 months ago
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Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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7 months ago
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Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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4 months ago
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Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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a year ago
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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10 months ago
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Bananas & Brutality: The Twisted History of United Fruit
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5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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a year ago
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Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Does Karma Exist?
Does what goes around come around?
8 months ago
Does what goes around come around?
TheCollector
What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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a year ago
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