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Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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Anglo-Saxon England’s Last 50 Years: A True Game of Thrones
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First Major Survey of Georgia O’Keeffe Cityscapes Opens June 2
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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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Louis XIV: History’s Longest-Reigning Monarch
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The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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Weekend Roundup
Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History
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Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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Trying to Understand...
The Year of Failing To Understand.
Not your usual end-of-year review.
4 days ago
Not your usual end-of-year review.
African History...
How Africans wrote their own history: Debates and dialogues between four west African historians in...
Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act...
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“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act as a form of communication that transcends language to connect cultures together” – Jeffrey Deitch Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010) changed our expectations around art. Named after...
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J.S. Bach’s Life and Travels in Germany
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Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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projects and pain
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
over a year ago
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
'If we can't...
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5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death
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Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist
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Sotheby’s to Auction Its First Robot-Made Artwork
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the...
a year ago
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
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Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
a year ago
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
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6 Politicians & World Leaders Who Are Artists
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Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings?
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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What Is Capoeira?
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Summary of changes for May
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
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Who Were the Allied Powers?
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How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness?
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6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance
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The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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Trying to Understand...
Into the Waste Land
Nothing connects.
a year ago
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5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also issued booklets of content. These were more astronomy than manned space flight but also had some very nice illustrations.
The Moon
The Milky Way and The...
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[Coming Soon] The Essential Greeks
Begins in Two Weeks
a year ago
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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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Trying to Understand...
No Left Turn
Workers and Peasants we are not.
4 months ago
Workers and Peasants we are not.
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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great...
9 months ago
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” —Duane Michals Through image sequences, framing, multiple exposures,...
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Weekend Roundup
Memorial Day Weekend Sale
7 months ago
Memorial Day Weekend Sale
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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Ancient Marble Floor Restored Underwater in Italy
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6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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African History...
The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
a year ago
A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
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10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time
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weird medieval guys
Huge announcement: there’s a Weird Medieval Guys BOOK coming out soon!
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a year ago
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Trying to Understand...
A Wasting Asset?
Europe turns away from America.
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Europe turns away from America.
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Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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a year ago
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Summary of changes for December
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over a year ago
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.
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The Enigmatic Archeology of Chichen Itza: A World Wonder
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African History...
Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies...
a month ago
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies show up in the selection committees of Stockholm.
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What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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What’s the History of Gin?
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed.
They didn't know. But they know now.
7 months ago
They didn't know. But they know now.
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What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids?
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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Forgotten Sandro Botticelli Piece Seized by Italian Authorities
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Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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History of Chariots: 10 Types from Ancient Cultures Explained
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Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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Two Paintings Once Stolen by Nazis Are Donated to the Louvre Museum
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Who Was Geoffrey of Monmouth? The Man Who Made Arthur and Merlin
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Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage....
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“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage. Chance brought me together with a crowd of unknowns. It was up to me to parse them out and magnify the moment.” – Joni Sternbach on her pictures of NYC Subway Passengers in the 1970s ...
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What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
2 months ago
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
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Who Was Susan Sontag?
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Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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Summary of changes for June
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, released a nasu guide, and updated the look of the icon. We...
A Collection of...
Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
a year ago
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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African History...
The textile trade of pre-colonial Africa
In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana),...
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In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana), carrying more than 6,000 pieces of cloth which was to be exchanged for gold.
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How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
7 months ago
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
11 months ago
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the...
a year ago
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
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American polarisation
The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
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The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
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Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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Important Notification
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History Today Feed
Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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Thu, 12/14/2023 - 09:33
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Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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Thu, 12/14/2023 - 09:33
African History...
A general history of African explorers of the Old world, and a 19th century Bornu traveller of...
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old...
2 months ago
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old World’ from the classical period to the turn of the 20th century.
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