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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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Malta & Its Role in World War II: A Crucial Fortress Island
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How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
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”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel’s new blood. Jean Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.” — Andy Warhol’s longtime studio...
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Who Won the Second Battle of Bull Run?
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Parmigianino Altarpiece Back On View After 10-Year Conservation
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
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The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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How to Steal From Homer
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
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What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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Lucian Freud Nude to Make $20 Million Auction Debut
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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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Hidden History
The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire...
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue
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7 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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The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The...
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Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The band had recently released their fourth album Juju (1981) and were working on their fifth A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982). While other punk bands had imploded, Siouxsie and the...
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Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
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Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US
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Wrong Side of...
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
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The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)
Journal of African cities chapter 8
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Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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Prometheus: The Titan Who Defied Zeus and Created Humanity
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What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Mexico?
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Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
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Lion Weekly was a magazine for children with comics and stories. (from Wikipedia...
Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
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Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition: What is an Active Life?
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Monsters and Myths
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Aristotle's Rhetoric
The Power of Persuasion
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What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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Religion in the Olympics
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The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Pope Visits Venice Biennale For First Time
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CrimethInc.
The Eye of Every Storm : Anarchist Response to Hurricane Helene
At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30...
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Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
A re-run--
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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8 Unmissable UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia
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Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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A Wasting Asset?
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What Was Organization Todt?
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Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
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What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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Origins of Latin Literature
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Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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Anarcho-Capitalism Explained in 5 Steps
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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First, do lots of harm.
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The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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Oskar Schindler: The Business Tycoon Who Became a Hero
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Toxic Walls: Why Was Victorian Green Wallpaper So Deadly?
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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10 Women Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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10 South American Artists You Should Know
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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Emotions: Better Out or In?
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Do We Need Passports? Or Borders?
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What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
Advice from the Ancients
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks
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Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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Flashbak
Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
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What Was the Warsaw Pact?
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Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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7 Famous Surrealist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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The coolest medieval woman you've never heard of
Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
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Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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Aristotle on Luck
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The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
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Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
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What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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Secrets of the Sirens
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Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness?
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Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
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weird medieval guys
Huge announcement: there’s a Weird Medieval Guys BOOK coming out soon!
oh my god!!! oh my god!!!! oh my god!!!!!
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oh my god!!! oh my god!!!! oh my god!!!!!
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire?
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UK Gallery to Recreate “Groundbreaking” 1907 Exhibition
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
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Who Am I, Really? A Philosophical Quest for Self-Discovery
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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Poland Nixes Planned Venice Biennale Pavilion
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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Should We Own Stuff?
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Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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Who Were the First Christian Martyrs of Britain?
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AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
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Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
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Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
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Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
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What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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Who Is the Father of Pentecostalism?
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10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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