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What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism?
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What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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New Year, Old Books
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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Elton John Collection Goes on Sale After 21 Years
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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Catching Nessie on Film
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TheCollector
Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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Denim: The Fabric That Built America
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images...
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6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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A Collection of...
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‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
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The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons
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Getting our events straight...
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate,...
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Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
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10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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King John’s Lost Treasure
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How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
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For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
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Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome?
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How Did the Seasons Get Their Names?
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
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Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and brew beer, the place has been sanctuary to immigrants for centuries and is now home to a large Bangladeshi community. In the 17th century, French Huguenots arrived and brought with...
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
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For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the pointy guitar, the hair, the band, the drive, the tights, the most piercing scream outside a Pee Wee Herman meets Cher Christmas convention. And you also had the hair. In the 1980s …...
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
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Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini: A Friendship Ruined by Ghosts
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KAWS: 11 Things You Should Know
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
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The 21st Amendment: The Only Amendment That Repealed Another
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
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What is the History of Christmas? A Journey Through Time
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The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
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For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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When Was the Era of Japan’s Bakufu?
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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a brief note on the intellectual contributions of African scholars in the diaspora
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
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the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
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In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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The Met Reveals Design for New Modern and Contemporary Wing
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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What Is the Hill of the Buddha?
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What Was Négritude?
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Do you need to be Good to be a Good leader?
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is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
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7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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What Was the Third Council of Constantinople?
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10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush
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The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
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This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi, a Thai folding book that opens from top to bottom. It was made in the 19th century in central Siam (now Thailand) by an unknown artist. Such folding books were typically made from...
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The Furies
Vengeance or Justice?
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Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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Overcoming Bias
Conquest and Liberation of Academia
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The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
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The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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Fall of Berlin: How WWII Ended in Europe
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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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Ancient Podcasts
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
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This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples raised armies to fight the Romans (and others) in the third through first centuries BC. Last time, we looked at the subsistence basis of these societies...
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What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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Wrong Side of...
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Liberalism dies in darkness
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Liberalism dies in darkness
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Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
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Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
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Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
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These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François Brunery (1849 – 1926), and used as the basis for his work as a painter of so-called “Cardinal Paintings”. His work depicting cardinals of the Catholic church in comical or embarrassing...
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Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the...
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From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and...
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George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and flash photography when photographing animals. Shiras, a lawyer who became a politician, borrowed a hunting technique he learned from the Ojibwa tribe called jacklighting, when fire...
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The Vasari Sacristy: Breathtaking Artwork in Naples
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The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
7 months ago
Ancient Robots and Other Inventions
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Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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Arguing with the Dead
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JamesHoare
Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
10 months ago
Arguing with the Dead
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
Overcoming Bias
Futarchy Futurism
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I have often taken on the role of econ futurist, analyzing the social consequences of particular future techs.
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Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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US President or American Caesar?
US President or American Caesar?
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
2 months ago
US President or American Caesar?
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
Dr Alun Withey
The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
a year ago
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
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Should We Follow Silly Laws?
And what happens when we don’t?
a year ago
And what happens when we don’t?
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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/06/2024 - 11:03
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/06/2024 - 11:03
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying...
5 months ago
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying on the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian province of Lampung, Krakatoa was hit by a series of four massive eruptions – the equivalent to 200...
African History...
Self-representation in African art: the wall paintings of medieval Nubia. (ca. 700-1400)
an African portrait of an African society
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an African portrait of an African society
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