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2025-03-24
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2022-07-11
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2022-07-11
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2022-07-05
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2022-07-05
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2022-06-30
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2022-06-28
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2022-06-22
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2022-06-21
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2022-06-21
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2022-06-21
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2022-06-19
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2022-06-18
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2022-06-13
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2022-06-11
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2022-06-08
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2022-06-03
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2022-05-30
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2022-05-18
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2022-05-12
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2022-04-28
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2022-04-10
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2022-03-31
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2022-03-18
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2022-03-17
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2022-03-14
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2022-03-14
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2022-03-10
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2022-03-08
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2022-02-20
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2022-02-09
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2022-02-01
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2022-01-25
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2022-01-23
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2022-01-21
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2022-01-21
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2022-01-16
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2022-01-12
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2022-01-12
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2022-01-07
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(bittersoutherner.com)
2022-01-06
Ninety-Nine Fascinating Finds Revealed in 2021
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2021-12-27
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2021-12-26
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2021-12-12
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(www.seriouseats.com)
2021-12-12
The Invention of Chinese | History Today
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2021-12-11
The Story of Catherine the Great
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2021-11-29
How an American in Paris won the rarest of French honors
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2021-11-23
The Tomb Raiders of the Upper East Side
(www.theatlantic.com)
2021-11-22
How Fish and Chips Migrated to Great Britain
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2021-11-04
"A Great Day In Harlem": Remembering the iconic 1958 phot...
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2021-11-03
How 12th-century Genoese merchants invented the idea of r...
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2021-10-15
The Daring Diplomat Who Proved One Person Can Thwart an E...
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2021-09-19
When Nazis tried to trace Aryan race myth in Tibet
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2021-09-14
How Singer Won the Sewing Machine War
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2021-08-26
The Kingpin of Shanghai
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2021-08-19
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2021-07-11
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2021-07-10
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2021-07-03
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2021-06-21
Africa’s ancient scripts counter European ideas of litera...
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2021-06-04
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2021-06-04
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2021-06-04
Ho Chi Bear and the Ravens
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2021-05-12
The Most Honored Photograph | PetaPixel
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2021-05-12
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(www.sfgate.com)
2021-05-07
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2021-04-24
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(www.washingtonpost.com)
2021-04-12
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2021-03-27
Did the Black Death Rampage Across the World a Century Ea...
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2021-03-27
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2021-03-03
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2021-02-28
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2021-02-13
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2021-02-09
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2021-02-09
A Massacre in a Forest Becomes a Test of Poland’s Pushbac...
(www.nytimes.com)
2021-01-14
The 432-year-old manual on social distancing
(www.bbc.com)
2020-12-29
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2019-12-23
Three Big Things: The Most Important Forces Shaping the W...
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2019-09-21
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2019-09-02
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(www.bbvaopenmind.com)
2019-08-29
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2019-08-15
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(getpocket.com)
2019-08-12
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(www.nytimes.com)
2019-07-31
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(www.bbc.com)
2019-07-30
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2019-07-20
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(www.theatlantic.com)
2019-07-18
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2019-06-30
https://stories.californiasunday.com/2015-06-07/somerton-...
(stories.californiasunday.com)
2019-05-12
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(www.smithsonianmag.com)
2019-03-16
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2019-02-10
The Nazi Interrogator Who Revealed the Value of Kindness
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2019-01-26
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2018-12-21
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2018-12-16
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2018-12-03
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2018-11-17
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2018-11-16
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2018-11-07
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2018-10-08
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2018-08-28
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2018-08-24
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2018-08-23
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2018-08-15
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2018-07-01
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2018-07-01
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2018-06-13
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2018-06-03
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2018-06-03
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2018-04-30
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2018-03-08
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2018-02-12
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2018-01-21
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2017-11-24
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2017-10-21
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2017-09-24
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2014-10-24
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2012-10-24
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