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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
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Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
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Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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What Was the Teapot Dome Scandal?
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Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
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Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
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The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its...
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Man-Made Moons (1960)
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
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Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant to be an example of isotype graphic design. This was a visual language created to unite the world without using words at all: International System Of Typographic Picture Education,...
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World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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Planet Trip (1960)
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To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
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9 Interesting Facts about Medusa
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ib: Subjects of the Successors
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What is Postmodern Art? The Genre Defined in 8 Iconic Works
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
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The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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Art Basel 2024 Opens to the Public: Here Are Some of Its Highlights
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The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine
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Victorian Fashion: Were Corsets Really That Uncomfortable?
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7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
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The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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Vatican Museums Open Ancient Roman Necropolis
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Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” Performed by a Choir of 4,000 Singers
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Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a...
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Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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A History Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro
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Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
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Reforming England’s Divorce Law
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This is an inspiring portrayal...
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
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Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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10 Major Players of the Haitian Revolution
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This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V),...
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi?
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A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
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The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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Were Anglo-Saxon Pagans a Threat to Medieval Christian Society?
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What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
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Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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What Makes Jean-Luc Godard An Iconic Film Director?
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L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
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Another of my essays in French.
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10 Powerful Roman Emperor Names Still Used Today
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Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
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10 Myths About the Greek Goddess Athena
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
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In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
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3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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Edward I’s Destruction of England’s Jews
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Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
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Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
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What Is Theodicy?
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Bananas & Brutality: The Twisted History of United Fruit
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There are no "why"s in our world.
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What Role Did Women Play in the Scientific Revolution?
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5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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4 Most Famous Alien Abduction Claims
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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What Was Kantai Kessen?
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What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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11 Amazing Rooms & Artworks in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj
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Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration
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Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by German-American-French artist and founder of the Dada movement Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976). The book, which marks the beginning of his close friendship with French poet Paul...
Patterns in Humanity
The Effects of Immigration in Denmark
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an...
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First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an official government report.
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10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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