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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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What Are the Key Influences That Shaped the French New Wave?
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Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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What Is Conceptual Photography?
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7 Works by Romaine Brooks You Should Know
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Women Portraitists of the Renaissance: A League of Their Own
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American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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Summary of changes for April
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
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What Are the 8 Best Art Attractions in Budapest? (local tips)
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What Makes a Celt & Did They Ever Inhabit Britannia?
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5 Influential African Leaders of the 20th Century
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The Mystery of Crazy Horse: His Life & Legacy
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We Are All Civilisational States
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It's just that some people don't realise it.
History Today Feed
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition: What is an Active Life?
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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Flashbak
Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
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Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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6 Astounding Achievements by Maya Lin
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Mexico?
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Dr Alun Withey
Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the...
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Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the spirit! A good holiday is generally viewed as a tonic, and holiday company advertisements extol the virtues of ‘getting away’, encountering new places, people and cultures and (if...
TheCollector
Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
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Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
Classical Wisdom
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Animals of the Ancient World
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Animals of the Ancient World
TheCollector
Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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TheCollector
Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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TheCollector
Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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Flashbak
Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
6 months ago
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
Hundred Rabbits
where is the turtle farm
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over a year ago
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the market, or of the company to be found here, but just of having that same view every morning. We love this city, but when it's time to go, it's time to go!
We left our mooring at...
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10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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Pace Gallery Will Represent the Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative
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Flashbak
Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
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To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
TheCollector
How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigrant assimilation in Denmark
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Trying to Understand...
The Wages Of Fear
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8 months ago
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
Patterns in Humanity
Where parents make a difference
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9 months ago
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
TheCollector
What Are the 4 Main Jewish Sects?
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Trying to Understand...
Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
over a year ago
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
Classical Wisdom
The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
And the Palace where it was found...
a year ago
And the Palace where it was found...
TheCollector
Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
TheCollector
Two Paintings Once Stolen by Nazis Are Donated to the Louvre Museum
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TheCollector
The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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Classical Wisdom
What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
TheCollector
Les Soixante-Huitards: The French Student Demonstrations of May 1968
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African History...
Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom.
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems...
a year ago
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
Flashbak
Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The...
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Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The band had recently released their fourth album Juju (1981) and were working on their fifth A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982). While other punk bands had imploded, Siouxsie and the...
TheCollector
How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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African History...
A history of the Loango kingdom (ca.1500-1883) : Power, Ivory and Art in west-central Africa.
Africa's past carved in ivory
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Africa's past carved in ivory
TheCollector
UNESCO Creates a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
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TheCollector
Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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TheCollector
Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Separate History from Myth?
And does it need to be true to be important?
a year ago
And does it need to be true to be important?
TheCollector
The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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TheCollector
How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces of news.
11 months ago
And some bits and pieces of news.
TheCollector
The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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History Today Feed
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
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Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
TheCollector
What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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TheCollector
6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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Wrong Side of...
Why we need an insufferable liberal elite
The Great Migration to Bluesky
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The Great Migration to Bluesky
Flashbak
Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration,...
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Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from 1875-1925, writes Albert Seligman. His luxurious Gift Books of the early 20th century were covered in vellum and issued in signed limited editions with tipped-in color...
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The Soldier with a Secret: Who Was Sarah Emma Edmonds?
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How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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Flashbak
Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to...
2 months ago
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
History Today Feed
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
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Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
6 months ago
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
TheCollector
Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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TheCollector
Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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Open Culture
Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further...
4 days ago
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further sightings in various locations in the region have been lodged on a daily basis, and anxieties about the origin and purpose of these unidentified flying objects have grown apace. “We...
Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
a year ago
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
Trying to Understand...
I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
11 months ago
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
African History...
The General History of Africa
a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
8 months ago
a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
TheCollector
Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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TheCollector
Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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TheCollector
The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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TheCollector
7 African Myths About Animals
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TheCollector
Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Gap Week: August 2, 2024
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
4 months ago
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
Flashbak
Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You...
4 months ago
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You see one earring. Walk slowly past the photograph so you are viewing it from gradually changing angles… The earring from one ear recedes from view while its twin [appears] in turn on...
TheCollector
Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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TheCollector
Cubism and Collage: How Picasso and Braque Revolutionized Art
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TheCollector
4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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TheCollector
8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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Trying to Understand...
A Strange Defeat.
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
a month ago
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
TheCollector
Who Was Vortigern?
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TheCollector
Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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8 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
Hidden History
The Ocarina
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
2 months ago
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
TheCollector
5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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African History...
A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of...
4 months ago
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
TheCollector
What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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TheCollector
Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Try to Control Nature?
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
4 months ago
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
Open Culture
Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from...
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Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Insects’ Christmas, above. In addition to offering brief respite from the chaos of consumerism and modern expectations, this...
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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Flashbak
Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
3 months ago
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Olympics Special
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Venice Plan for Damaged Banksy Mural Concerns Locals
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TheCollector
Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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Wrong Side of...
Your favourite half-British president
We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
a month ago
We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
TheCollector
What Is Theodicy?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
The Power Of Absent Things.
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
9 months ago
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
TheCollector
How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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Flashbak
Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
3 weeks ago
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
TheCollector
Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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TheCollector
The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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TheCollector
What Is Appropriation in Art?
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What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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Jonathan Sacks: Are Science and Religion Enemies?
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TheCollector
The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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TheCollector
The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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TheCollector
5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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TheCollector
Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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TheCollector
What Was Kantai Kessen?
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Classical Wisdom
What Government Governs Best?
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
a year ago
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
TheCollector
Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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TheCollector
Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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TheCollector
How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
9 months ago
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
TheCollector
How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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a month ago
History Today Feed
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
2 months ago
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
Trying to Understand...
They Say They Want Rearmament ....
We-ell, you know ....
a year ago
African History...
A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD
Journal of African cities chapter 6
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 6
TheCollector
Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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TheCollector
Interview with Giulio Dalvit: TheCollector Chats with Frick Curator
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
TheCollector
How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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TheCollector
Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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TheCollector
Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
It's All About Them.
But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
a year ago
But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
History Today Feed
France’s Long March Against Racism
France’s Long March Against Racism
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Sun, 12/03/2023 - 01:01
a year ago
France’s Long March Against Racism
j.hoare
Sun, 12/03/2023 - 01:01
TheCollector
New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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TheCollector
The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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TheCollector
What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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TheCollector
How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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TheCollector
What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 weeks ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
TheCollector
When Was the First Crusade?
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TheCollector
10 History-Rich But Affordable US Cities You Can Move to
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Trying to Understand...
Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
over a year ago
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
TheCollector
Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide
Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
7 months ago
Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
Global Inequality...
Before the police arrives: Bookstores on Saturdays
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I...
10 months ago
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
Classical Wisdom
The Great Flood
...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
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...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
TheCollector
La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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Wrong Side of...
The Tears of Strangers are only water
On the limits of empathy
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TheCollector
‘Just Stop Oil’ Protestors Cover Stonehenge in Powder Paint
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African History...
A history of the Damagaram sultanate of Zinder: ca. 1730-1899.
Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
African History...
The colonial myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in medieval Islamic geography: the view from Egypt and...
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
Flashbak
Cars of Britain in the 1970s
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of...
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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...
TheCollector
10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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TheCollector
What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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TheCollector
Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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Flashbak
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This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails. A leading figure in early American abstraction, Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) was an American painter, poet,...
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Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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Who are the Pioneers of the Beat Generation?
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10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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Beyond Mars (1960)
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Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron Age Mediterranean (focusing on the period from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC): the humble, effective and ubiquitous thrusting spear. In particular, I want to discuss the striking...
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Albert Speer: Architect, Minister, and Hitler’s Closest Friend
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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j.hoare
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
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Res Obscura
Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
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Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
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What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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Patterns in Humanity
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a year ago
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people of science, and then I put it in context with other indicators of historical development. The data together show that West Europe had developmentally surpassed the rest of the world...
Flashbak
Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
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A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of zodiac figures accompanied with text. It was made before 1844. “Maria Revere Balestier (daughter of Paul Revere and wife to the first American consulate to Singapore) was the...
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How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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Dreams of Space -...
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Classical Wisdom
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Oedipus at Colonus
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Dreams of Space -...
Mole Rocket (1965)
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over a year ago
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
Hundred Rabbits
rainy with a chance of mosquitoes
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over a year ago
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign and just as wild, except instead of hungry lizards there are mosquitoes, also known as the vampires of the Marquesas.
Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
Dreams of Space -...
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a month ago
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
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5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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A Collection of...
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“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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11 months ago
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John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death...
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The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion?
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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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The Modern World Is Boring.
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A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’?
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Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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A Collection of...
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
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Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
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What Was the Warsaw Pact?
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What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
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Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
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What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature?
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7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
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Hunter Biden Did Know Who Acquired His Art
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Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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goji no chaimu
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
over a year ago
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
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10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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Capoeira’s Incredible Roots: Brazil’s Unique Art Form
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Virgil and the Aeneid
Rome's Greatest Epic
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Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
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How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
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