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How Did the Islamic Golden Age Shape Knowledge and Discovery?
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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
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How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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How Did Descartes View Animals?
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s...
5 months ago
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How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
6 months ago
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some have been drawn on the printed photo with pen, others form part of the image itself. The use of bows and arrows by humans predates recorded history and is common to most...
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The Legacy of Emperor Pedro II: Brazil’s Golden Age
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Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had...
9 months ago
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Dr Alun Withey
Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing...
over a year ago
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...
A Collection of...
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
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African History...
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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It has been a while but here is a strange Christmas post for you. Something about Santa and Flying...
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Santa and the Space Men is a play for children about how Santa is...
TheCollector
Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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The Eccentricities of Arthur Conan Doyle: Fairies, Apes, and Spiritualism
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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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Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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How to Revive Wassailing
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Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible?
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How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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How Much?! Barbers & the Price of Shaving.
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and,...
over a year ago
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
Flashbak
Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
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Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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African History...
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The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the...
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Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
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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.
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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4 Controversial Films: What Horrifies Movie Critics?
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Two Paintings Once Stolen by Nazis Are Donated to the Louvre Museum
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Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
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Death of the King of Siam
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12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos...
11 months ago
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7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
a year ago
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
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5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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History Today Feed
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you...
9 months ago
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László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and...
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László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
TheCollector
Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
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Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
6 months ago
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
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4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while...
9 months ago
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African History...
a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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an African kingdom in southern Italy.
Patterns in Humanity
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12 months ago
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
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History Today Feed
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Glorify Caesar?
And Those Like Him?
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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 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 March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
Res Obscura
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Most of them are not from 2023
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks
Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction...
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In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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War in Dreamland
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Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
TheCollector
What Is Panpsychism?
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Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which...
a year ago
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TheCollector
Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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What Is First Corinthians About?
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Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
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TheCollector
Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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Classical Wisdom
Virgil and the Aeneid
Rome's Greatest Epic
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African History...
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"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
Dr Alun Withey
Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel.
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel...
11 months ago
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel preparations. One thing that I’m particularly interested in is the material culture of travel, and what sorts of things were available for travellers as they got ready for their...
TheCollector
Here’s How AI Completed Keith Haring’s Work
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Patterns in Humanity
The Effects of Immigration in Denmark
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an...
a year ago
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an official government report.
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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JamesHoare
Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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TheCollector
Battle of Poitiers, by Charles de Steuben, 1837, via Wikimedia Commons
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Overcoming Bias
Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
3 months ago
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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History Today Feed
‘Naples 1343’ by Amedeo Feniello review
‘Naples 1343’ by Amedeo Feniello review
JamesHoare
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‘Naples 1343’ by Amedeo Feniello review
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Tue, 01/14/2025 - 09:23
TheCollector
Andrei Molodkin Holds Art Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life
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Flashbak
The Prostitutes’ Gaze: The Integrity of Mid-Century Sex Workers (NSFW)
“I take photos to amuse myself” – Georges Thiry Georges Thiry (1906 – 19940 took many pictures...
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10 Ancient Greek Sculptures You Must Know
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Satellites As A Hobby (1962)
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and...
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Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and created a space map in 1958 (see Sept 8, 2011 blog post). They reused these illustration in several publication which may explain why they seem a little "dated" for 1962. This book...
Patterns in Humanity
Does poverty cause violent crime?
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7 months ago
An examination of the association between poverty and violent crime
TheCollector
3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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History Today Feed
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’...
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‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
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Tue, 09/17/2024 - 08:00
Classical Wisdom
The First Biographers
...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
Flashbak
Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no...
2 months ago
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no matches. How did they manage to smoke?” Robin: “They threw one cigarette overboard and the boat became a cigarette lighter.” – The Question asked in Batman, 1966 The question mark...
History Today Feed
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
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Dreams of Space -...
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How Did the Victorian Dead Body Trade Operate?
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10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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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 and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
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Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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6 Astounding Achievements by Maya Lin
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The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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What Is Theodicy?
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Albert Einstein: The Greatest Scientist of the 20th Century
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How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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50 Years of Cyprus Divided
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What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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Top Aces of World War II: 7 Talented Fighter Pilots
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Are There Still Lepers? The History of Leprosy in 5 Chapters
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The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance and Retribution
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8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
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When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres tour, Blondie got the call. Georgia-based southern rockers Stillwater couldn’t play. So would the New Yorkers deliver what 18,000 fans of the Canadian rockers packed into the...
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Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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‘Spiral Jetty’ Added to National Register of Historic Places
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Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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