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Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
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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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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
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To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
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Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
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Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
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1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was sold, women raged in raucous nightclubs, gay rights found its voice, Madonna joined her first band, BLADE used trains as his canvas and In 1981, 22-year-old Christopher Morris was...
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A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
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Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease pudding and saveloys, what next is the question? Rich gentlemen have it boys – in-di-gestion! – Food Glorious Food from the muscial oliver by Lionel Bart, 1968 You didn’t need...
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
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The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
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TheCollector
The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those...
11 months ago
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
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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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Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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Malta & Its Role in World War II: A Crucial Fortress Island
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In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then the Holy Roman Empire (modern Germany) where he met Hiob Ludolf, an envoy and linguist whom later generations of ‘Ethiopists’ would regard as the founder of Ethiopian studies in...
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Who Was Ben Black Elk?
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The Story of Billy Sipple: The Price of Heroism
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5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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Anglo-French Wars: 13 Conflicts Between France & England
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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...
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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...
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Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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Hunter S. Thompson Remembers Jimmy Carter’s Captivating Bob Dylan Speech (1974)
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces
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This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
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German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
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When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
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6 Facts About Ilya Repin You Should Know
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What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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Patterns in Humanity
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a year ago
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Another Of My Essays In French
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Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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The intellectual history of Ethiopia and Eritrea: Ge'ez manuscripts and scholars (ca. 200-1900CE)
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The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably the best-known works of literature produced in pre-colonial Africa.
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Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
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What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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What Were Vincent van Gogh’s Composition Techniques?
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Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
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New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
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What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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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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Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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10 Facts About the Curious Calvin Coolidge: The Coolest President?
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Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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Overcoming Bias
Betrayed By Culture
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On the Spot: William Dalrymple
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TheCollector
What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
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How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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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...
TheCollector
Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone,...
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Lower Manhattan in 1973
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May...
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These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
TheCollector
Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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Classical Wisdom
Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
Starting Tomorrow
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The kinetic phase may come next.
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Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, updated the documentation for our various projects.
Left, added support for unicode input(Mastodon).
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What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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Thefts From Heritage Sites in the U.K. Are Rising
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Hendrik Verwoerd’s Life & Death: The Architect of Apartheid
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10 Must-See Archaeological Sites in the US
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A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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8 Things You Should Know About Wangechi Mutu
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Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
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Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
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5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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What Is Marie Antoinette Syndrome?
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other...
a year ago
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
AND October 1, 2012...
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: What Does It Mean?
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Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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The 4 Most Important Cultures in Ancient Anatolia
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10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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What Does the New Testament Say About Hell?
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Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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African History...
A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of...
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The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
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Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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13 Surprising Facts About William Shakespeare
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Vatican Museums Open Ancient Roman Necropolis
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Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies...
2 months ago
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies show up in the selection committees of Stockholm.
Open Culture
Famous Architects Dress as Their Famous New York City Buildings (1931)
On January 13, 1931, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects held a ball at the Hotel Astor in New York...
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On January 13, 1931, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects held a ball at the Hotel Astor in New York City. According to an advertisement for the event, anyone who paid $15 per ticket (big money during the Depression) could see a “hilarious modern art exhibition” and things...
TheCollector
The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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Overcoming Bias
Our Authoritarian Default
Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently...
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Was Henry VIII Really a Protestant?
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France’s Long March Against Racism
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Calling Time on BC and AD
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Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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The Life of Malcolm X: “You Had Better Make Some Noise”
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
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