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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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Trying to Understand...
Useless in Gaza
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
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As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
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Dealing With Foreigners ...
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Is more complicated than you might think.
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Who Were the Landsknechts?
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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weird medieval guys
An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns
Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
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Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
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Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
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Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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What Are the 8 Most Popular Churches in Venice?
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A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
demystifying an ancient African society
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demystifying an ancient African society
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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What Are Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Top Achievements?
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5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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Mount Toba: Did a Supervolcano Almost Wipe Out the Human Species?
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
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Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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Summary of changes for September
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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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Who Was Vernon Lee?
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The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
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A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
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Service to what nation?
Why people should stop talking about conscription.
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Why people should stop talking about conscription.
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
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Io Saturnalia!
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
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Celebrate the “Best of Days”
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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Who was Rasputin and Why is He Famous?
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The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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The Great Emu War: When Australians Lost to Flightless Birds
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Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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Have A Weird Christmas With Our Album Of Vintage Photo Oddities
There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E....
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There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E. Jackson’s phenomenal collection of snapshots we see all kinds of unusual goings on. One Christmas card features a photo of the sender covered in rats; on another a man canoodles a...
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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
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What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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Ancient Greek Art
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
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At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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Van Dyck Rare Drawing Could Sell for $1.2 Million at Christie’s
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What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970,...
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The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
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a complete history of Mombasa ca. 600-1895.
Journal of African cities: chapter 13
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Journal of African cities: chapter 13
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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Weekend Roundup
Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
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Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
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Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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Top 10 Depictions of the Annunciation in Art
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Where Did Paul Cezanne Live?
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Lucio Fontana Piece Could Set Auction Record at Sotheby’s
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7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History
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Rastafari Philosophical Tenets: Divinity Within & African Redemption
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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Dreams of Space -...
The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I...
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My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
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What Was the War of Jenkins’ Ear?
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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...
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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,...
Patterns in Humanity
Crime in the USA
A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
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A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
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One Way Or Another ....
We're going to get you.
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War Is Complicated.
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And not just the fighting bit.
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How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city...
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A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city before there was a Selfridges or Harvey Nichols, and no Bullring as we know it today. Birmingham was a place of subway shops and underground passages that are now filled in and...
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doldrumming
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
over a year ago
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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Trying to Understand...
Externalising Our Hatreds.
It's Ukraine and Gaza. Again.
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It's Ukraine and Gaza. Again.
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12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
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‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
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Leonora Carrington Painting Set to Quadruple Auction Record
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On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human...
a year ago
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human beings, if they care about them at all?
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What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it...
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Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it presented creations by such couturiers as Louise Chéruit, Premet (best known for La Garconne, or The Flapper, a black dress with a white collar and cuffs introduced in 1923, Philip et...
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What Is the History of Halloween?
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit the Pyramids?
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Teach Your Children ....
Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
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Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
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What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
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The Philosophy of Time: Study the Nature of Past, Present, and Future
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Shocking Scandals: 10 of the Most Controversial US Elections
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