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What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
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The 21st Amendment: The Only Amendment That Repealed Another
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What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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What Is Solipsism?
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Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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What Are the Abraham Tapestries?
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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Patterns in Humanity
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Why Should We Care About Children?
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How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
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Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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The Longest Construction Projects in History: Why Sagrada Família, the Milan Duomo, Greek Temples &...
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10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes:...
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6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
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Stock Car Racing in 1972
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5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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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 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,...
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day
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The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
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How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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Women Portraitists of the Renaissance: A League of Their Own
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Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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Too Much of Not A Lot
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Winning the day and losing the war.
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The Angolan Civil War: 26 Years of Fighting
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One, Two (1965)
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The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor
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Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. As moderns, we are so familiar with the way that states function that the far older systems of non-state organization and...
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5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving?
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What is Virtue?
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Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
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The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
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Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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State and society on Africa's largest island.
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
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The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
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Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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The Myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Great Flood in Greek Mythology
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Flashbak
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Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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A Look at London in 1975 with English Eccentrics and Mr Whippy
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The Prostitutes’ Gaze: The Integrity of Mid-Century Sex Workers (NSFW)
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Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
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The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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Stoicism and Stress
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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What Are the Romance Languages?
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
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The Life of Malcolm X: “You Had Better Make Some Noise”
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Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
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Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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Hundred Rabbits
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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.
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What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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When Was D-Day?
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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Summary of changes for August 2023
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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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Heriot Bay, Ballet Bay Octopus Islands, and...
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