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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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10 Powerful Roman Emperor Names Still Used Today
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Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Getting Used To Being Weak.
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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...
Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
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Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
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10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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TheCollector
Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
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Death of a Samurai Legend
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
4 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added new pages: Sointula, Johnstone Strait anchorages, and Central coast anchorages. Updated existing pages: added Yuculta and Dent rapids with...
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
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Dreams of Space -...
A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
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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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Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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The Phoenician Spoken & Written Language: What You Need to Know
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Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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The Sand Creek Massacre: A Horrific Tale of Betrayal & Greed
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Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
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Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries?
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Belgian Revolution: The Independence Movement That Surprised Europe
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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TheCollector
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Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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How Can We Separate History from Myth?
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And does it need to be true to be important?
Overcoming Bias
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Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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Hundred Rabbits
an island to oneself
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Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
Many of the...
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Ancient Marble Zeus Head Unearthed in Türkiye
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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Classical Wisdom
Democracy
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The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
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10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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10 Architectural Landmarks You Must See in Valencia
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Far Out Images from Johann Zahn’s Oculus Artificialis (1685)
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
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5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
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Patterns in Humanity
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Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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Sex Before Sex Education
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The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
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Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Kids–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK...
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Flashbak
Watch TV-CBGB – A Punk Sitcom From 1981
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
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Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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6 Haunted Historical Sites That Will Scare Your Socks Off
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The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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Cynthia The Celebrity Mannequin (1932)
Cynthia was a mannequin who looked remarkably human, in a sort of unusual way before extreme...
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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Samnite Wars: How Rome Conquered the Samnites (History & Aftermath)
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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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...
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Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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What Are the Five French Republics?
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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10 Ancient Sites in New Mexico You Should Visit
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Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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Dreams of Space -...
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A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some...
a year ago
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets.
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6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes:...
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Manhattan Noir: John Fensten’s Photographs of New York City in the 1980s
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6 Must-See English Castles
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
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Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving on the Second Monday of October?
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Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us...
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American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
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What Was the Hanseatic League?
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Who is Ana Mendieta? An Icon of Environmental Art
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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Secrets of the Deep: What Is the History of the Mary Celeste?
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Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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Historic Copenhagen Stock Exchange Catches Fire
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso
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Wrong Side of...
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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History as Tragedy?
A Different View of Thucydides
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No Left Turn
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What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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Why Socrates Matters
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Deadly Wildfires Devastate Los Angeles Art Community
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444 Days: The Story of the Iran Hostage Crisis
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The Myth of the Minotaur
Journey Into the Labyrinth
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Journey Into the Labyrinth
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Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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African History...
A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900.
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies...
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Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies across the continent during the bronze age.
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The Water Is Rising.
But slowly ...
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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Belgium’s Collectible Design Fair Debuts in NYC
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Flashbak
Welcome To Holy Land USA: Inside America’s Jerusalem, 1980
“You can tell that Garry Winogrand was my hero. I learned so much from him about how to tell a story...
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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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African History...
a complete history of Mombasa ca. 600-1895.
Journal of African cities: chapter 13
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Journal of African cities: chapter 13
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The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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Overcoming Bias
Tension-Filled Black Holes
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Most matter pushes against nearby matter, via a positive “pressure.” That’s why Earth holds its shape, instead of collapsing down to a point mass.
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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Who Am I, Really? A Philosophical Quest for Self-Discovery
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Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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Flashbak
Bertha Czegka: Skiing Bunnies And Other Satire
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Biography Bertha Czegka (July 30, 1880 – November 4, 1954) was a member of the “Association of Visual Artists” in her native Austria. In the interwar period, the painter worked as an illustrator on children’s books. One highlight among her later works is a poster she created in...
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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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Global Inequality...
The world according to Garegnani
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar...
8 months ago
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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Was Alexander Great?
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French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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Global Inequality...
The three German fears
Historical origins of the malaise
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Historical origins of the malaise
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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5 Women in Philosophy of Mind You Should Know
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
Classical Wisdom
Rome's Worst General?
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
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And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
Open Culture
Discover the Playful Drawings That Charles Darwin’s Children Left on His Manuscripts
Charles Darwin’s work on heredity was partly driven by tragic losses in his own family. Darwin had...
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Charles Darwin’s work on heredity was partly driven by tragic losses in his own family. Darwin had married his first cousin, Emma, and “wondered if his close genetic relation to his wife had had an ill impact on his children’s health, three (of 10) of whom died before the age of...
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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What Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England?
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Classical Wisdom
What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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Restoration Reveals Ancient Colors of Egypt’s Edfu Temple
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
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Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
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Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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Plato On Knowledge
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The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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Franz von Stuck: German Symbolist Painter & “Prince of Art”
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What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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CrimethInc.
History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy : Why the Democrats Are Responsible for...
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Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of the battles of 2017-2020 all over again. But first, in order to understand the scale of what we’re up against, let’s look at how we got here.
The Hot Potato Changes Hands Again
We...
CrimethInc.
Capitalism Thrives on Death—Death to Capitalism : Two Posters
Ahead of Halloween, on the heels of several months of forest fires, hurricanes, and heat waves, we...
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Ahead of Halloween, on the heels of several months of forest fires, hurricanes, and heat waves, we present two posters—”Capitalism Is the Dance of Death” and “Capitalism Thrives on Death.” Learn how to make wheatpaste and cover the walls of your community in these!
Capitalism Is...
African History...
The pyramids of ancient Nubia and Meroe: death on the Nile and the mortuary architecture of Kush
a complete history of an African monument
a year ago
a complete history of an African monument
TheCollector
9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
a year ago
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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6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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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
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which people will get individual jet-powered wings to fly. It is set a little like a fantasy and a little like a dream. It has "perfect" 1950s illustrations about how the future might...
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs.
Fractran, released what might be the most in-depth...
Trying to Understand...
Books To Help Us Understand The World?
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
a year ago
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
TheCollector
Aristotle on Knowledge, Truth, and Error (6 Arguments)
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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Flashbak
Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
9 months ago
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
Classical Wisdom
Important Notification
New Cabins *NOW* Available
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New Cabins *NOW* Available
TheCollector
Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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African History...
Roads and wheeled transport in African history.
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
a year ago
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
Patterns in Humanity
The Rise of the West
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people...
a year ago
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people of science, and then I put it in context with other indicators of historical development. The data together show that West Europe had developmentally surpassed the rest of the world...
A Collection of...
Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
2 months ago
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
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.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
Overcoming Bias
Beware Value Dashboards
Vehicles like cars, planes, and boats generally need a) an engine to push them forward, b) steering...
3 months ago
Vehicles like cars, planes, and boats generally need a) an engine to push them forward, b) steering to direct their motions, and c) a driver to manage both.
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Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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Hendrik Verwoerd’s Life & Death: The Architect of Apartheid
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow?
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Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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Flashbak
Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was...
9 months ago
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was bushy haired and youthful, soft-bodied like the Jesus at the Arian Baptistery, hopeful and free. The face was based on the best looking heathen gods. In the Middle Ages, Jesus...
Overcoming Bias
Our Authoritarian Default
Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently...
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Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently puzzling to justify more careful study.
Dreams of Space -...
Man-Made Moons (1960)
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
a year ago
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant to be an example of isotype graphic design. This was a visual language created to unite the world without using words at all: International System Of Typographic Picture Education,...
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
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8 Things You Didn’t Know About Eva Perón
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Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Free Will Vs Determinism
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Yves Tanguy: 6 Facts About the Outstanding Surrealist
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Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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Trying to Understand...
Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
a year ago
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
African History...
a brief note on new discoveries in African archeology and the stone ruins of Cameroon.
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription...
5 months ago
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription that describes a trading expedition to an unspecified region called the land of Punt. Egyptologists had long debated about the location of this mysterious territory before recent...
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10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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What Is Nestorianism?
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How Did the Black Death Change the English Language?
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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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6 Crazy Facts about Cape Town
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Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many
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Investors Trying to Acquire Ex San Francisco Art Institute Building
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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