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Donatello, St. Mark, 1411-13, marble, 93″ (236 cm) (Orsanmichele, Florence). Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris...
Double page opening: Provinces Bringing Tribute (f.23v.) and Ruler Portrait of Otto III (f.24) Gospels of Otto III,...
After looting its treasures, Alexander burned the great palace and surrounding city to the ground, as Xerxes...
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Before you attribute a trait to a famous ancestor like George Washington or Marie Antoinette, you might...
It was the biggest constitutional crisis since Henry VIII divorced Catherine of Aragon. By Anna Pasternak It...
From its earliest years, the Senate has jealously guarded its power to review and approve or reject...
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Although a saint, a bishop, and an important figure in a turbulent age, Sidonius is remembered particularly...
This period of ancient Indian history is known as the Vedic age, as it was depicted in...
The earliest cave paintings here are about 30,000 years old. Introduction The Bhimbetka rock shelters are an archaeological site...
Working people deserve a better standard of living for completing what society demands. By Daniel Wasik Daniel...
Examining the associations known as ‘collegia’ mentioned in the letters (10.33-34) from the Roman pro-consul Pliny to...
Traditionally, Roman society was extremely rigid. Introduction The social structure of ancient Rome was based on heredity,...
Completed in 691 CE, the Dome of the Rock is the oldest extant Islamic building in the...
Discovered in 1925, the skull was the first fossilized archaic human found in Western Asia. Introduction Mugharet...
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NATO is girding up for what some believe is a new Cold War with Russia, but President...
The League represents the most successful attempt by the Greek city states to develop a collective government...
Athens’s heavy-handed control of the Delian League ultimately prompted the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War. Introduction The Delian...
Trump has learned very well from prior anti-Communism crusaders, and it requires vigilance and activism to cope...
The Syrian army, honing in on her satellite phone, targeted an artillery strike on the building where...
Each one immediately followed wars – World War I and II. Introduction A “Red Scare” is promotion...
In 1884 Edwin Abbott Abbott published Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, perhaps the first ever book that...
Mathematicians have known how to solve something called an S-unit equation for several years. However, the process...
Lycians are associated with a group known as the Sea Peoples in Hittite and Egyptian texts. Introduction...
Strabo tells us that the city of Side was founded around the 7th century BCE by Greek...