Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2023
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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, updated jib cars, and added new recommendations on the...
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Forgotten Sandro Botticelli Piece Seized by Italian Authorities
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Leonora Carrington Painting Set to Quadruple Auction Record
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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What Is Capoeira?
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
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...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
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Should Drugs be Criminalized?
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Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
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American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no point in trying to achieve anything else in life. As he put it: “If it’s not fun, there’s no point!” A new book of his conceptual photographs illustrates the point. Above, you can see...
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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Calm in the Face of Crisis
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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The Prophecies of Merlin
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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)...
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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...
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
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Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
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How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
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Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
Res Obscura
How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
An experiment with historical simulation
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An experiment with historical simulation
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Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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Useless in Gaza
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As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text...
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First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text book made from tempera and gold leaf on parchment. Shelf marked Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 0457, the work is a Latin translation of Avicenna’s Canon medicinae, one of...
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Rastafarianism: Religion or Philosophy?
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What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
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History Today Feed
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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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
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7 of the Most Iconic Monuments in Russia
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Cecilia Beaux: Esteemed American Portraitist
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April
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 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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When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
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From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
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Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire?
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No More Heroes.
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Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
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Ancient Philosophy for Children
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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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The case for a Global Sanctuary City
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Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the...
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A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
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The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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First Nations of the Canadian Subarctic: A Brief History
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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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The Art of Collage and Assemblage in Modern Art
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
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10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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Global Inequality...
Freedom to be “wrong”: the only real advantage of democracy
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Why the liberal project will fail
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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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A Colossal Ramses II Statue Pieces Uncovered
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Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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Dreams of Space -...
I Want To Be A Space Pilot (1961)
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
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Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
I Want To Be A Space Pilot is part of a series of children's books called "I want to be..." They are essentially a beginning to read career book. I like the very basic illustrations and the straightforward text. I also...
Overcoming Bias
Beware Policy Abstraction
The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly...
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The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly confirm that the issues focused on there were biased in two key ways.
Global Inequality...
Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
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Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
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Did Jesus Live in India?
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10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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Who Were the Kuomintang?
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Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which...
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So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which people will get individual jet-powered wings to fly. It is set a little like a fantasy and a little like a dream. It has "perfect" 1950s illustrations about how the future might...
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The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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Was David Gulpilil Australia’s Most Important Actor?
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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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Patterns in Humanity
Recidivism in Norway
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Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
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Memphis Citizens Call for End to New Art Museum
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Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome?
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Res Obscura
Res Obscura is now on Substack
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Three years late, but historians are always late
African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
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The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye
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8 Works of Paul Klee You Should Know
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The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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What is Postmodern Art? The Genre Defined in 8 Iconic Works
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10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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Who Were the Pilgrims?
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See The Rolling Stones 1966 Tour Program
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In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay and the New Jaywalkers and Ike & Tina Turner. Formed in 1962, The Stones had their first number one in ‘64 and in 1966 had released what was to be their breakthrough album an...
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ib: Subjects of the Successors
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This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the Hellenistic army and its Macedonian phalanx and the Romans with their legions. Last week, we looked at the weapons, organization and fighting style of the Macedonian phalanx, the infantry...
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Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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A Few Spots Left
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10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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7 Museums to Visit in Athens
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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The Story of Thebes
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Flashbak
One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
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On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown Heights to see the skaters at Brooklyn’s Empire Roller Disco. Formerly the Empire Rollerdrome (built 1941), the rink was now all disco. It was where Cher hosted the release party for...
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How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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10 History-Rich But Affordable US Cities You Can Move to
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What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It)
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style
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Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
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“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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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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Who Was Walt Whitman?
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3 Key Ideas in Environmental Ethics
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What is TIME? And Dates?
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The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
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The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
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Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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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...
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5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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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 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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Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
2 months ago
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
Trying to Understand...
If We Had More Than a Hammer ...
We might not be in this mess.
a year ago
We might not be in this mess.
TheCollector
7 Works by Romaine Brooks You Should Know
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TheCollector
Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
History as Tragedy?
A Different View of Thucydides
5 months ago
A Different View of Thucydides
TheCollector
Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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TheCollector
The Evolution of Socialism and Its Influence in the US
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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TheCollector
When Was the First Flight in History?
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a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
Sweden's immigration taboo
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
4 months ago
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Lives of Exiles
9 months ago
TheCollector
Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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TheCollector
Artist Frank Auerbach Dies at 93
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a month ago
TheCollector
10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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TheCollector
The Great Emu War: When Australians Lost to Flightless Birds
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The Anne of Cleves Louvre Portrait Got a Makeover
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Navel Gaze?
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
a year ago
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
Trying to Understand...
A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
a year ago
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
TheCollector
What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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TheCollector
What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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TheCollector
Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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10 months ago
Flashbak
Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was...
8 months ago
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was bushy haired and youthful, soft-bodied like the Jesus at the Arian Baptistery, hopeful and free. The face was based on the best looking heathen gods. In the Middle Ages, Jesus...
TheCollector
Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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5 months ago
Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I...
over a year ago
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
TheCollector
Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
6 months ago
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
TheCollector
Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:08
a month ago
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:08
TheCollector
What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
Why Do Religions Decline?
Why Do Religions Decline?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
a month ago
Why Do Religions Decline?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
TheCollector
What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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6 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Will The West Eat Itself?
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
a year ago
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
TheCollector
Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
50 Years of Cyprus Divided
50 Years of Cyprus Divided
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 09:24
5 months ago
50 Years of Cyprus Divided
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 09:24
TheCollector
UN Committee Votes Against “At Risk” Designation for Stonehenge
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5 months ago
TheCollector
10 Ancient Sites in New Mexico You Should Visit
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a week ago
History Today Feed
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
4 months ago
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
TheCollector
Hunter Biden Did Know Who Acquired His Art
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11 months ago
TheCollector
History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
2 months ago
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
TheCollector
How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
4 months ago
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
TheCollector
Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
10 months ago
‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
History Today Feed
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
a month ago
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
TheCollector
5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Why Did Rome Fall?
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
a year ago
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
TheCollector
11 Amazing Rooms & Artworks in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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3 months ago
TheCollector
How Magnus Maximus’ Forgotten Son Contributed to the Arthurian Legends
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Kido Butai?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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11 months ago
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
TheCollector
7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Do You Believe in Magic?
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
8 months ago
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Art of the Etruscans
Romans before the Romans
8 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
2 weeks ago
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Handle Anxiety?
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
10 months ago
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
TheCollector
5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Kristallnacht? The Horrors of the Night of Broken Glass
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TheCollector
The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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a month ago
TheCollector
Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House?
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a month ago
History Today Feed
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
7 months ago
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
TheCollector
4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Ode to a Grecian Tour
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TheCollector
The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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3 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
over a year ago
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
TheCollector
Belgium’s Collectible Design Fair Debuts in NYC
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3 months ago
TheCollector
The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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a month ago
African History...
The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone...
3 months ago
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone monuments in Africa south of Nubia.
TheCollector
7 Prominent Photorealist Artists in the World Today
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
TheCollector
Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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11 months ago
TheCollector
A History of the US House of Representatives
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
‘Just Stop Oil’ Protestors Cover Stonehenge in Powder Paint
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6 months ago
Open Culture
An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to...
a week ago
For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
Classical Wisdom
Does Marcus Matter?
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
12 months ago
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
TheCollector
Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Auctioned for $6 Million
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a month ago
TheCollector
The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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6 months ago
TheCollector
19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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TheCollector
Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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9 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in Arizona You Must Visit
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Free Will Vs Determinism
2 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Cultural Scenario Probabilities
On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative...
2 weeks ago
On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative likelihood, desirability, and ease of influence.
A Collection of...
Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
a year ago
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
4 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
Hakum, added two drawings to the...
TheCollector
Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Cj Hendry Lands in Miami With HOOPS Tree Installation
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Susan Sontag?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:20
6 months ago
Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:20
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical...
5 months ago
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical assumptions of Imperator: Rome, a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, set during the rise and collapse of the Roman Republic from 304-27 BC and covering the broader...
TheCollector
What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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a year ago
TheCollector
4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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a month ago
A Collection of...
Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
2 months ago
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
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