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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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Belgian Revolution: The Independence Movement That Surprised Europe
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Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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What Is First Corinthians About?
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Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
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For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
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German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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What Are the Key Influences That Shaped the French New Wave?
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Cecilia Beaux: Esteemed American Portraitist
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Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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Searching In Science (1965)
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Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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Looted Van Gogh Artwork Retrieved in Ikea Sack
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Why I love etymologies
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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Get to Know Palazzo Doria Pamphilj & Its Fascinating History
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
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Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
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The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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Trying to Understand...
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There are no "why"s in our world.
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Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia
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The Musée d’Orsay Held An Immersive Van Gogh Show
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Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
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Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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Reality Would Like A Word.
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5 Timeless Financial Tips from Greek and Roman Philosophers
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIb: Pyrrhus
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Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
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What Was Kristallnacht? The Horrors of the Night of Broken Glass
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10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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Rastafarianism: Religion or Philosophy?
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
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Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
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Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s...
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“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s as if we are all in on the same joke” – Andy Summer on London’s UFO Club Founded by Joe Boyd and John Hopkins, London’s psychedelic UFO Club was small and short-lived, running...
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What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
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6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
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5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim...
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Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
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Africa's past carved in ivory
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a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
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British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
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9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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Hinduism in Bali: Things You Need to Know
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Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s...
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Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
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The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s...
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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7 Prominent Photorealist Artists in the World Today
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What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
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William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
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How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
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How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
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World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey....
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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St. Nicholas
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the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
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Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In...
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You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain – America, A Horse With No Name We don’t know where British … Continue reading "American...
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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Give All to Love: A New Documentary on Ralph Waldo Emerson Debuts
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L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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Summary of changes for November 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year 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
Wiktopher, drew some new art(Mastodon), finalized a few translations(Mastodon), and released it the project on Itchio!
Thousand Rooms, translated the...
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Let's Be Enemies
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
a year ago
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
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What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
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Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
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Plato On Knowledge
What is True?
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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The Year of Failing To Understand.
Not your usual end-of-year review.
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Not your usual end-of-year review.
Patterns in Humanity
Does poverty cause violent crime?
An examination of the association between poverty and violent crime
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An examination of the association between poverty and violent crime
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Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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Street Artist JR Installs Optical Illusion at Milan Train Station
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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
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Gladiator Combat
Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
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Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
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Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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Res Obscura
When technology follows art
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the...
a year ago
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
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Heracles and the Lernaean Hydra: The Hero’s Second Labor
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps
“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that...
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“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that community can be brought in to exercise the way.” – Emma Hart Willard Emma Willard (February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was a trailblazing American educator who founded the first...
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The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
9 months ago
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the...
a year ago
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
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Rodney King & The LA Riots: A Terrible Episode of Violence
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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Who Were the Pilgrims?
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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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Seneca's Tragic Plays
Stoic or Not?
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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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...
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Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire?
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Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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Weekend Roundup
Mothers of the Ancient World
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Mothers of the Ancient World
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The Election That Caused the Boer War
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Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:19
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The Election That Caused the Boer War
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Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:19
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...
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s...
4 months ago
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the...
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The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a month ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Rabbit Waves and Logbooks. Updated woodstove installation, no windlass with 1 photo, mini dodger and Victoria to Sitka logbook with Week 3...
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist...
5 months ago
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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Who Were the Landsknechts?
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The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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Overcoming Bias
Love And War And Status
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“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau
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Weekend Roundup
The Best of the Best
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Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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Summary of changes for June
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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved the Uxntal reference sheet and improved the Uxntal...
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
11 months ago
Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
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What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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Hidden History
The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire...
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An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire country. By the 1870s, the once-rural agrarian United States was beginning to emerge as an industrial power. The Civil War had spurred the rapid development of industry such as iron...
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Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
3 months ago
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
African History...
a complete history of Mombasa ca. 600-1895.
Journal of African cities: chapter 13
3 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 13
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British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
5 months ago
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
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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 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,...
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6 Facts About Hilla von Rebay: The Mastermind Behind the Guggenheim
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Rise of Abraham Lincoln: The Road to the 1860 Election
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London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra...
4 months ago
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra pay For sitting on their arse all day! – London Underground by The Amateur Transplants Peter Marshall shows us pictures of stations on the London Underground, Docklands light...
Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are...
over a year ago
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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Faces of Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A...
4 months ago
In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A member of the Reflex photography group, led by documentarian Diane Bush, a young American established documentary photographer, Portus wanted to show the everyday things people...
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Will The West Eat Itself?
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
a year ago
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
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The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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Hell in the Bible: Eternal Damnation vs. Annihilationism
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Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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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:...
3 weeks ago
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. – William Shakespeare, The Tempest, illustrated by Arthur Rackham 1926 Arthur...
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the...
a year ago
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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Who Was Gabriele D’Annunzio?
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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What Is the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)? Origins & History
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
a year ago
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.
Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
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A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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History Today Feed
The Death of a Mnemonist
The Death of a Mnemonist
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
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The Death of a Mnemonist
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Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
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History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi?
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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’...
3 months ago
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry...
9 months ago
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
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Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
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Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
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Who Was Julius Caesar?
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The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day
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The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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Changing Seasons
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Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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The Nature of Love
a year ago
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The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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How the South Became Republican
How the South Became Republican
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Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
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How the South Became Republican
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
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Artists Rejected from Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
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Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life?
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
a year ago
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
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10 Incredible Artworks by Félicien Rops
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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The Cyclops
A Misunderstood Monster?
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10 Historic Small Towns in Arizona You Must Visit
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