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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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Moving With the Times?
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Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
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When Was the First U.S. Presidential Election?
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You And Whose Army?
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NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
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Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
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What is needed to stop violent cycles?
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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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Thefts From Heritage Sites in the U.K. Are Rising
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What is the “Mind”?
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What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda?
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The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
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Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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Patterns in Humanity
The Rise of the West
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines?
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Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi?
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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What Was the Religion of the Ancient Phoenicians and Carthaginians?
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5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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How Did the Black Death Change the English Language?
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No Women Allowed?
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Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
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Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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Beware Shared Basic Value Changes
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10 Must-Visit Historic Buildings in the US
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Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in England
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How Can We Prepare for the Worst?
Without living forever in fear and worry?
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Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army
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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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Ancient Marble Zeus Head Unearthed in Türkiye
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Dreams of Space -...
Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a...
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
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What Are Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Top Achievements?
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Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
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What Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England?
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The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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The Men Who Sacked Rome: Who Were the Vandals?
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Have We Become Anti-Human?
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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A Collection of...
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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Ed Ruscha’s Artists’ Books: An Innovative Approach
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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The Congolese Teen Exhibited in a US Zoo: Who was Ota Benga?
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How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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12 Facts About Marina Abramović and Her Work
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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Hey everyone!
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
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History Today Feed
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The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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6 Things You Should Know about Sculptor Augusta Savage
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‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
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The Skeletons of Shanidar Cave: What Can They Tell Us About the Past?
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How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About
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Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
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Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
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Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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Overcoming Bias
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
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Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
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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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again.
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Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
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The Metamorphoses du Jour by JJ Grandville – 1829
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MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
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Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
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How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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Watch Bob Ross’ The Joy of Painting from Start to Finish: Every Episode from 31 Seasons in...
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Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
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This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
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On 17th century "cocaine"
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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