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Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
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The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
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Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg?
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What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
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“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
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Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
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Calling Time on BC and AD
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17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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Jean And Rose – A Paris Photo Love Story From 1929
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Neanderthal Nonsense: Debunking Myths About Our Ancient Cousins
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
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8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave!
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Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today is usually a pretty mundane – if not a pleasant – experience. Indeed, the rise of traditional barbershops over the past few years, offering shaving as an experience, together with...
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The Infancy Gospel of Thomas & the Childhood of Jesus Christ
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How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
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Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
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To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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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 October.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Rabbit Waves and Logbooks. Updated woodstove installation, no windlass with 1 photo, mini dodger and Victoria to Sitka logbook with Week 3...
History Today Feed
What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
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There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
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‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
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Summary of changes for July 2024
Hey everyone!
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
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...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
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10 Zany Facts About Benjamin Franklin You Probably Didn’t Know
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Euripides’ Lost Plays
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Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s
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Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
a year ago
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“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time...
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“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time when people are so baffled, so in need of help.” – Käthe Kollwitz diary entry, December 1922 Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) made over 100 self-portraits of her …...
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9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of...
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Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Coinage and the Tyranny of Fantasy ‘Gold’
This week on the blog I want to take a brief detour into discussing historical coinage, particularly...
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This week on the blog I want to take a brief detour into discussing historical coinage, particularly in the context of modern fantasy and roleplaying settings. In particular, the notions I want to tackle are first how did ancient currency systems work in terms of value (what...
TheCollector
Homo Erectus: The Most Successful Human?
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Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE)
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Flashbak
Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the...
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From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
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Too Much of Not A Lot
Winning the day and losing the war.
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TheCollector
What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
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Mole Rocket (1965)
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece...
over a year ago
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
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Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician....
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
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Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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The Death of a Mnemonist
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When Africa discovered Europe
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A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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Who Were the Most Important Disciples of Jesus Christ?
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review
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5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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Giorgio Agamben’s Notes on Dante’s Divine Comedy
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10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
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8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid...
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Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid advancements in science and technology happening in the 1400s. With improvements in cartography, ship and other maritime technology, and an increased desire to understand and discover...
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Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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What Is Nestorianism?
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Collections: The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e
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a year ago
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry...
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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What Can You Expect to See at the Spring Temple Buddha?
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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Kingdoms at the forest's edge: a history of Mangbetu (ca. 1750-1895)
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has...
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The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has a long and complex history shaped by its internal cultural developments and its unique ecology between the savannah and the forest. Among the most remarkable states that emerged in...
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
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At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
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Who Was Vivienne Westwood?
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
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This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
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Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution?
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Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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The Second Punic War: How Hannibal Almost Conquered Rome
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God
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It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead....
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It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead. Here, we review the events of 2024 and our own contributions to the fight for a better world.
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What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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The Story of Thebes
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten...
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From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten city-state...
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
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I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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Top 10 Plays by William Shakespeare
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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.
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Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
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Why the Tavern Scene in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds Is a Master Class in Filmmaking
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Ideally, a viewer should be able to identify the work of a particular auteur from any one scene that the auteur has directed. In reality, it’s not always possible to do so, even in the work of filmmakers with highly idiosyncratic styles. But in the case of Quentin Tarantino, it...
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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The Electoral College Explained
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Who Was Walt Whitman?
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5 Influential African Leaders of the 20th Century
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NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages
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Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
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an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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The Evolution of Socialism and Its Influence in the US
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Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop?
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How Can We Handle Anxiety?
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George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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Which US President Served the Shortest Time in Office?
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
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Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older children.
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The Year's Midnight.
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Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
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Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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What Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England?
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Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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5 Military Geniuses From History
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Who Was the Fifth Beatle?
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Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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Comes the Hiatus, 2024!
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards...
4 months ago
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
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Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
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We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
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7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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What is the Eye of Ra?
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Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue
This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look...
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This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look at how the Roman legions were able to overcome the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and second centuries BC. We have covered the decisive battles in the story, although...
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
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Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
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Rules, Rules Rules
Because that's all they can do.
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Because that's all they can do.
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4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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What Is Banksy’s Real Identity? (5 Scenarios)
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Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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