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Topic: History
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A breast is a breast is a breastThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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To contemplate Pompeii is to contemplate archeology in its most extreme form, framed by the wish not only for discovery, but for resurrection.
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Ukraine yesterday & tomorrow
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Ukraine didn’t become an epicenter of world history all of a sudden; it became an epicenter again.
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How to write; or, how to insultThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Shoulders were slapped, fingers pointed, hearts fired up. Perhaps a little scuffle broke out after class, a boisterous wrestling over insults exchanged. Nothing to be concerned about. Acquiring knowledge was,…
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Firsts in spaceThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A friend of mine likes to say that the moon landing was real, but dumb. On astronautical tokenism.
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Curtain callThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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An iron curtain makes a powerful canvas. Images from Sven Johne & Falk Haberkorn’s Aus Sicht des Archivs, documenting life in the former East Germany in the 1990s.
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A kayak in ZierikzeeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Was a Dutch town founded by Inuits in the 9th century? On American discoveries of Europe.