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Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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History Today Review of the Year
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weird medieval guys
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Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
African History...
a brief note on the history of indigenous and foreign religions in African history, and the Kimpasi...
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The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various denominations, with a relatively small fraction adhering to other belief systems often referred to as 'indigenous' or 'traditional' religions.
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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Why not Keynes?
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China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
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And don't say a word about Europe.
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How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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4 Important Philosophers of German Idealism You Should Know
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Trees at Night: Art Young’s Haunting Silhouettes, 1927
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands...
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“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. As a man is, so he sees.” – William Blake Arthur Henry Young – better known as Art Young (January 14, 1866–December 29, 1943) – saw humanity in the … Continue...
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Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
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But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
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Which US President Served the Shortest Time in Office?
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter...
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We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
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The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
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That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
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St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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Centaurs and Snake-Kings
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Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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History of the Automobile: How Did We Get to Electric Vehicles?
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The Secret Life of Latin
Still A Living Language?
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
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Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
History Today Feed
The Lost Years of Jesus
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The Lost Years of Jesus
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TheCollector
What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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How the South Became Republican
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Calling Time on BC and AD
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Calling Time on BC and AD
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TheCollector
What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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A Brief History of Collecting Art
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Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
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Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
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In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
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Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
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Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an Alice Thr0ugh The Looking Glass are so much about the food. Little surprise then to discover The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook: A Culinary Diversion by John Fisher, first published...
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What Is the History of the Blues?
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
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During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most powerful dynasties, whose history significantly shaped the region's social landscape. The history of one of these dynasties, often referred to as the Solomonids, has been...
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
a year ago
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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What Was the Rhodesian Bush War?
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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Dreams of Space -...
Looking Into Science (1965)
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965...
over a year ago
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
History Today Feed
Catching Nessie on Film
Catching Nessie on Film
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Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
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TheCollector
How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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The Infancy Gospel of Thomas & the Childhood of Jesus Christ
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10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
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Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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Res Obscura
Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy?
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The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
TheCollector
Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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What Is the Origin of Cowpox (& How Did It Cure Smallpox)?
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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History as Tragedy?
A Different View of Thucydides
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Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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Hundred Rabbits
the promise of pancakes
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had...
over a year ago
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
Trying to Understand...
In Praise of the Preterite
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
a year ago
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
TheCollector
What Ere Iyaric and “I and I”? Rastafarian Resistance Through Language
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The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Try to Control Nature?
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
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Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
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Emotions: Better Out or In?
Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
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Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
TheCollector
Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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Greco-Scythian Artifacts Seized by Spanish Police
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Open Culture
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
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Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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Trying to Understand...
War Is Complicated.
And not just the fighting bit.
a year ago
And not just the fighting bit.
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The Mystery of Morpheus
Who is the God of Dreams?
a year ago
Who is the God of Dreams?
TheCollector
Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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Dreams of Space -...
The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a...
a year ago
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Julius Caesar
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History Today Feed
How to Revive Wassailing
How to Revive Wassailing
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How to Revive Wassailing
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Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
TheCollector
Silver Shields: Alexander the Great’s Legendary Elite Troops
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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...
TheCollector
The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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Hidden History
The 1914 Christmas Truce
[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous...
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[NOTE: I re-run this diary every year.] The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of the most famous events to come out of the First World War. Some have called it the last gasp of the chivalric age of professional militaries and gentlemen officers, to be followed by the full horrors...
TheCollector
The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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History Today Feed
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
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Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
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Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
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Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
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
Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
Flashbak
How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news...
a year ago
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
8 months ago
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
TheCollector
Does Free Will Exist?
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TheCollector
What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques
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History Today Feed
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
TheCollector
What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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Flashbak
Mazes and Labyrinths: An Illustrated History (1922)
“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” –...
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“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” – Philip K. Dick, VALIS William H. Matthews leads us through his 1922 book Mazes and Labyrinths from his home in Ruislip in the English county of Middlesex. Compiled shortly...
TheCollector
Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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What Was the Italian Risorgimento?
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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Trying to Understand...
One Way Or Another ....
We're going to get you.
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TheCollector
Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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Classical Wisdom
For the Love of the Classics
Valentine's Gifts
11 months ago
TheCollector
Here’s What to Know About the Oldest High School in America
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TheCollector
Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs.
Fractran, released what might be the most in-depth...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
8 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Twilight, updated our notes on chainplates, wheel to tiller conversion, cabin lights standing rigging replacement, Princess Louisa Inlet(added...
TheCollector
Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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History Today Feed
Columbine 25 Years On
Columbine 25 Years On
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
8 months ago
Columbine 25 Years On
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
African History...
Life and works of Africa's most famous Woman scholar: Nana Asmau (1793-1864)
On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
8 months ago
On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
TheCollector
8 Sneaker Trends to be on the Look-out For in 2024
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January
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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Left, re-wrote documentation, redesigned the UX for...
TheCollector
10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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African History...
a brief note on the intellectual contributions of African scholars in the diaspora
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
8 months ago
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
Dreams of Space -...
A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
a year ago
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
TheCollector
Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take
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Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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TheCollector
Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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Classical Wisdom
What is the WORD? How can we understand Logos?
Do Words Matter?
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Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb
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World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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TheCollector
What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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Dreams of Space -...
Hombres Del Espacio (1960)
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
a year ago
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
Classical Wisdom
Three Cabins Left
Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
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Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
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London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
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The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
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“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
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Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
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In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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Who Was Frantz Fanon?
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an island to oneself
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Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
Many of the...
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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The Art of Pompeii
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Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
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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 March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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Summary of changes for November 2023
Hey everyone!
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
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Wiktopher, drew some new art(Mastodon), finalized a few translations(Mastodon), and released it the project on Itchio!
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I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
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7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings
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These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
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Jamestown: The Myth & Mystery of America’s First Permanent Colony
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High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW)
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In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
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Alive! The Incredible Story of Hugh Glass
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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Two Paintings Once Stolen by Nazis Are Donated to the Louvre Museum
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The Historically Accurate Greek Armors of Dimitrios Katsikis (Interview)
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The Evolution of Socialism and Its Influence in the US
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The Death of Clive of India
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Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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10 of Rosalba Carriera’s Best Artworks
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5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
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History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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5 Deadliest Sword Designs
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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How A Charlie Brown Christmas, and Its Beloved Soundtrack Album, Almost Never Happened
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A Charlie Brown Christmas uses a cast of amateur child voice actors, deals with the theme of seasonal depression, and culminates in the recitation of a Bible verse, all to a jazz score. It was not, safe to say, the special that CBS had expected, to say nothing of its sponsor, the...
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10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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Why Socrates Matters
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What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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The Tudor War on Libel
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What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy
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Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at...
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In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at Kirtland Air Force Base just outside of Albuquerque NM. In January 1950, President Harry Truman announced that the United States would begin a crash program to develop and deploy a weapon...
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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
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10 Historic Towns in Nevada Worth Visiting
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Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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