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Interesting Times: America’s Ultimate Sore Loser Attempts a Coup and Sparks a Backlash
“May you live in interesting times” is a curse for good reason. These are interesting times for America. I’m sure most of us would prefer to be living in much less interesting times,…
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The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes: Excellent Historizzzz…
You know how sometimes you’re kinda sad when finishing a book, because despite having approximately 4,568,892,626,942 other books you need to read, none of them will be quite like this book? Yeah, I…
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Pirate Women: Badass Buccaneers Since the Dawn of Piracy
Why shouldn’t women be singing “A pirate’s life for me!” right alongside the men? Laura Sook Duncombe’s exquisite Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled The Seven Seas certainly proves that…