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Great Living Chola TemplesGreat Living Chola Temples (UNESCO/NHK)
The great Temple of Tanjore (Thanjavur) was built between 1003 and 1010 AD in the reign of the great King Rajaraja, founder of the Chola Empire which stretched over all of South India and the neighbouring islands. Source: UNESCO TV /...

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Madhubani Paintings: People’s Living Cultural Heritage
Mithila, a region in the state of Bihar, northern India (and also stretching into Nepal), has an important tradition of knowledge in the form of paintings. Madhubani paintings (also known as Mithila paintings) have been practised by the women...

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Interview: Living in Silverado: Secret Jews in the Silver Mining Towns of Colonial Mexico
Professor Emeritus David Gitlitz is one of the world’s leading experts on Jewish-Catholic interactions in Iberia and the Americas. While initially drawn to the literature of the Spanish Golden Age as a student at Oberlin and Harvard, the...

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The Report of Wenamun & the Perils of Living in the Past
The Report of Wenamun (also known as The Tale of Wenamun or The Report of Wenamon) is an Egyptian literary work dated to c. 1090-1075 BCE toward the end of the New Kingdom (c.1570 - c. 1069 BCE). The piece was originally interpreted as an...

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RUNNING A THOUSAND MILES FOR FREEDOM by Ellen Craft; William Craft ~ Full Audiobook ~ Slavery
Get your own copy of "RUNNING A THOUSAND MILES FOR FREEDOM" - https://amzn.to/3w7zf0d Order books easily home to your mailbox - https://amzn.to/3ocFyNh Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by Ellen Craft; William Craft ~ Full Audiobook...

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THE HISTORY OF MARY PRINCE by Mary Prince - FULL AudioBook | Greatest AudioBooks
THE HISTORY OF MARY PRINCE by Mary Prince - FULL AudioBook | Greatest AudioBooks - Mary Prince (c. 1788 – after 1833) was a British abolitionist and autobiographer, born in Bermuda, to an enslaved family of African descent. Subsequent to...

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Life and Easy Living
Floor mosaic with allegorical representation of Life and Easy Living. Crafted from limestone and glass tesserae, this mosaic was excavated in Syria and dates to approximately 350-400 CE. In the mosaic, an affluent couple is shown engaged...

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Drawing or Living Room at the Jim Thompson House Museum
This is the drawing or living room at the Jim Thompson House Museum in Bangkok, Thailand. The house was built c. 1959 CE from teak that was hundreds of years old and salvaged by Jim Thompson from the ruins of Ayutthaya (c. 1351 - 1757 CE...

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Dutch East India Company's Warehouse and Living Quarters
Dutch East India Company's warehouse and living quarters in Surat, India, as seen in April 1629 by Pieter van den Broecke (1585-1640), a Dutch cloth merchant in the service of the VOC.

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MYTHS OF THE CHEROKEE By James Mooney. Audiobook - full length, free
Full-length/unabridged audiobook for free, with text. HQ recording. James Mooney was an American ethnographer and folklorist who lived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best known for his extensive work on Native American...