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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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Greco-Scythian Artifacts Seized by Spanish Police
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Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
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Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing (published last week) about whether beards are finally ‘over’, and I thought it would be interesting to reflect on some of this. Since re-emerging around 2014, gaining popularity...
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A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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8 of the Greatest Fighter Planes of World War II
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4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
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10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
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The Philosophy of Time: Study the Nature of Past, Present, and Future
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Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
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Grand Egyptian Museum Partially Opens to the Public
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10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington
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A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
Hidden History
Museum Ship Destroyer USS Kidd
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a...
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Do Coincidences Mean Anything? Exploring Carl Jung’s Notion of Synchronicity
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Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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10 South American Artists You Should Know
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Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
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5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
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Belgium’s Collectible Design Fair Debuts in NYC
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New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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George Cassiday: Who Was the Man in the Green Hat?
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Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies
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a year ago
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Niagara Falls?
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post...
a month ago
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
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3 months ago
In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
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Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Dreams of Space -...
Happy Journeys (1961)
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
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a year ago
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
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The Rembrandt Painting to Sell For $18.4 M. at Auction
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The Second Punic War: How Hannibal Almost Conquered Rome
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Heracles Captures the Cretan Bull: The Hero’s Seventh Labor
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5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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How did Mao Lead China, and What did He Leave Behind?
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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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.
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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10 Must-Visit Historic Mountain Towns in the US
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What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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Art Basel Paris Kicks Off in Grand Palais
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The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
3 months ago
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Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this...
7 months ago
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this week, but not quite ready to get started yet. I’m also thinking, perhaps before that, of doing a short post or set of posts on the organization of non-state ‘tribal’ societies in...
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It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
a week ago
It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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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...
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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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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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Restoration Reveals Ancient Colors of Egypt’s Edfu Temple
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Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and...
6 months ago
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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9 Unskippable Memorials in Washington DC
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How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
8 months ago
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
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Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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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...
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Frank Stewart’s Portraits of The American Journey – A Story of Jazz And Justice
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens...
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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What Can You Expect to See at the Spring Temple Buddha?
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The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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Japanese Martial Arts: How Were They Invented (and Exported)?
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5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
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There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
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What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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Patterns in Humanity
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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A Collection of...
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Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a...
11 months ago
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Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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Coach Rusty’s Art Goes Interactive With Top Tier Authentics
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution?
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African History...
Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus...
a year ago
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
TheCollector
Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
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Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis...
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What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
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What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques
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Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
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over a year ago
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Amerigo Vespucci & The Naming of the Americas
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Flashbak
Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
6 months ago
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
African History...
The Mali empire: A complete history (ca. 1250-1650)
At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending...
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At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending over an estimated 1.2 million square kilometers in West Africa. Encompassing at least five modern African states, the empire produced some of the continent's most renowned historical...
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Juan Rulfo: Whispers & Myths From Mexico’s Most Enigmatic Writer
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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Trying to Understand...
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4 months ago
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Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
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French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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Who Is Pina Bausch?
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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Classical Wisdom
[Ebook] The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius...
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American...
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“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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The Cyclops
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Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter of Advice to People Living in the Year 2088
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There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters to the future, then publish them in Time magazine as part of an ad campaign. In fact, that time wasn’t so very long ago: it was the year 1988, to be precise, when no less an...
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Why drug history?
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
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.
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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*Time Correction for Wednesday
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What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often...
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“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before, and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them’ – Helen Keller Helen Keller is best known for her campaign to help the disabled and support for...
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Who Was George Hodel?
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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Van Gogh & Gauguin: A Fiery Friendship Between Two Post-Impressionists
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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Overcoming Bias
What Culture Can You Trust?
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art...
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American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art catalog published by Collaborative Projects (Colab) and Printed Matter, Inc. for Christmas 1982. Colab sought cultural activism that was purely artist driven. In addition to creating...
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10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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That's The Truth?
In politics, well, it depends.
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In politics, well, it depends.
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
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On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what to do
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Should Drugs be Criminalized?
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
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Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
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China’s Communist Comic Books
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China’s Communist Comic Books
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Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV...
10 months ago
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
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The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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Wrong Side of...
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Liberalism dies in darkness
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7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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When Did the Korean War Start?
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Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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Getting Used To Being Weak.
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a year ago
It's worse than you probably imagine.
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The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration,...
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Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from 1875-1925, writes Albert Seligman. His luxurious Gift Books of the early 20th century were covered in vellum and issued in signed limited editions with tipped-in color...
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Exploring the Troubles in Belfast and Derry (Monuments & History)
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Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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Helter Skelter: Who Was Charles Manson?
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5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
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This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
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A history of the south-western Saharan towns of Tichitt, Walata, Wadan and Chinguetti (800-1912)
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
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Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
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Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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10 Historic Towns in Nevada Worth Visiting
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
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Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
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The Essential Greeks
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***Now Enrolling: Starting July 1st, 2024
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism?
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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The radical philosophy of the Hatata: a 17th century treatise by the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob
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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The Extraordinary Story of Dido Elizabeth Belle
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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Chiaroscuro: The Dramatic Play of Light and Shadow
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love
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Volksgeist: Who Was Johann Gottfried Herder?
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Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo...
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Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo Compression’, we see people riding the trains. As he writes: “The images create a sense of discomfort as his victims attempt to squirm out of view or simply close their eyes, wishing the...
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Does FREE WILL Exist?
And if not, what are the consequences?
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And if not, what are the consequences?
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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What Was the Third Council of Constantinople?
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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There is no exit for dictators
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an...
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In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
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A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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Would You Kill the Fat Man?
Ethical Philosophy for Fun
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Ethical Philosophy for Fun
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The History and Beauty of the Moscow Metro
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Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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What Are Conlangs?
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