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How Did Religion Influence Law in the Ottoman Empire?
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What Is the History of Valentine’s Day?
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book. The drug was illegal – still is, of course – and publishing a book on it is risky. But it an effort to produce the...
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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What Is an Antipope?
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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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King John’s Lost Treasure
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King John’s Lost Treasure
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Artemisia of Caria
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Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
Overcoming Bias
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Sappho: The Lost Poetess
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Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
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Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive...
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Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive that speaks of her talent as a street and press photographer, writer and collector, most notably of vintage dog photographs which now live at London’s Bishopsgate Institute. “Mine...
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What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
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Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
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Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull
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Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending over an estimated 1.2 million square kilometers in West Africa. Encompassing at least five modern African states, the empire produced some of the continent's most renowned historical...
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Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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Beyond Stoicism
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10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
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In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
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Tolkien and the Classics
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Teach Your Children ....
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
a year ago
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
TheCollector
Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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Global Inequality...
Freedom by North-West
The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
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The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
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What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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Weekend Roundup
Mothers of the Ancient World
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Mothers of the Ancient World
History Today Feed
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
TheCollector
4 Most Famous Alien Abduction Claims
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
TheCollector
Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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Why Did the 1904 Olympic Marathon End in Disaster?
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
7 months ago
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
TheCollector
Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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a year ago
TheCollector
Mudslinging & Negative Campaigning: A Look at US Election Dirty Tricks
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Flashbak
Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place ...
yesterday
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
Classical Wisdom
St. Nicholas
The Saint behind Santa
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Flashbak
Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
7 months ago
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
TheCollector
The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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5 months ago
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
9 months ago
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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How Magnus Maximus’ Forgotten Son Contributed to the Arthurian Legends
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Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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2 months ago
African History...
a brief note on themes in African art.
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
5 months ago
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
TheCollector
How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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What Is the Ides of March?
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9 months ago
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What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
War Is Complicated.
And not just the fighting bit.
a year ago
And not just the fighting bit.
Hundred Rabbits
a home for pino
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd...
over a year ago
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
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Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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7 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s...
4 months ago
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
TheCollector
Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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4 months ago
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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11 months ago
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7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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a year ago
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What Is Marie Antoinette Syndrome?
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a year ago
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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10 months ago
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Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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TheCollector
The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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10 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners,...
over a year ago
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
TheCollector
First Major Survey of Georgia O’Keeffe Cityscapes Opens June 2
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington
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10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000...
a month ago
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000 employees lost their jobs. And another part of old New York went the way of the Automat and the Times Square peep show. The New York State Legislature enacted its first off-track betting...
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Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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Dr Alun Withey
Beard Fashions and Class
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
over a year ago
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
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Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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What Are the Origins of Santa Claus?
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a year ago
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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2 months ago
Trying to Understand...
NATO's Phantom Armies.
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
7 months ago
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
Flashbak
Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
2 weeks ago
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
TheCollector
Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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Why Are There Two Virginias?
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a year ago
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What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
Should you meet your heroes?
7 months ago
Should you meet your heroes?
History Today Feed
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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UN Committee Votes Against “At Risk” Designation for Stonehenge
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Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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Yuruparí: Amazon’s Unique Myth of Creation & Ritual of Passage
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Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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The First Stoic
Zeno of Citium
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The Furies
Vengeance or Justice?
3 months ago
TheCollector
5 Timeless Financial Tips from Greek and Roman Philosophers
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9 months ago
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What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor
The Life and Work of Pheidias
a year ago
The Life and Work of Pheidias
TheCollector
The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
a year ago
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
TheCollector
What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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a year ago
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
a year ago
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
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Monsters of Mythology
Who Made the Top Ten?
a month ago
TheCollector
Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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a year ago
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The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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a year ago
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Sophocles' Swansong
Oedipus at Colonus
a year ago
History Today Feed
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
j.hoare
Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
11 months ago
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
j.hoare
Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
African History...
A history of Zanzibar before the Omanis (600-1873)
Journal of African cities chapter 7
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 7
TheCollector
What Did Adorno Think of Beckett’s Endgame?
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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12 months ago
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