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Analyzing Soviet agit-trains, initiated in the year 1918, as an important instrument for the dissemination of political...
This year marked the centennial of the conclusion of the First World War, an anniversary that passed...
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Built in the seventh century BCE, the ancient city of Byzantium proved to be a valuable city...
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The spread of yellow fever was a result of complex ecological and demographic changes produced by the...
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Many cultures around the world celebrate death as part of life, though we often contain death within...
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A new data analysis by ProPublica and the Urban Institute shows more than half of older U.S....
The dead wait to be ferried across the River Styx. The Souls of Acheron (1898) by Adolf Hiremy...
Tablet with Instructions for the Deceased in the Underworld, 350–300 B.C., Greek. Gold, 7/8 × 1 7/16...
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The use of BCE/CE certainly has become more common in recent years but it is not a...
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Head of Janus, Vatican museum, Rome / Photo by Loudon dodd, Wikimedia Commons Sage advice from the ancients...
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Is or is not? Albert Einstein and Nils Bohr attend the Solway conference in 1920 in Brussels,...
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Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons An exquisite treasury of illustrations and objects, the Ayurvedic Man picture book presents a visual history...
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Although a widespread movement has developed to fight climate change, no counterpart has emerged to take on...