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The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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Summary of changes for March
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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 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...
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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The Yalta Conference: Moving Forward From WWII
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What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
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Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
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10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Somerset
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Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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10 Must-See Pirate Fortresses and Coastal Strongholds Around the World
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Moving With the Times?
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
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The Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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The History of Left-Handedness: Why Is This a Bias?
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Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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Trying to Understand...
War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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What Was the Political Significance of the Comintern?
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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What’s the History of Gin?
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5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
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Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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4 Important Philosophers of German Idealism You Should Know
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Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
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Some people never grow up.
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Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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Historical links between the Ottoman empire and Sudanic Africa (1574-1880)
travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
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The Sepoy Mutiny of 1857: Causes, Events, & Legacy
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The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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Egypt’s Giza Restoration Bid Faces Backlash From Archaeologists
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The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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The textile trade of pre-colonial Africa
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In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana), carrying more than 6,000 pieces of cloth which was to be exchanged for gold.
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I Want To Be A Space Pilot (1961)
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
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I Want To Be A Space Pilot is part of a series of children's books called "I want to be..." They are essentially a beginning to read career book. I like the very basic illustrations and the straightforward text. I also...
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The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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The Many Roads to Rome
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The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
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Mudslinging & Negative Campaigning: A Look at US Election Dirty Tricks
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10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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Understanding JS Bach in 5 Compositions
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5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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Centaurs and Snake-Kings
A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
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A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
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A complete history of the Sudano-Sahelian architecture of west Africa: from antiquity to the 20th...
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The westernmost region of Africa which forms the watershed of the great rivers of the Senegal, the Volta and the Niger, is home to one of the world's oldest surviving building traditions, called the ‘Sudano-Sahelian’ architecture.
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
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Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
TheCollector
3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
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Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History)
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The Real Bjorn Ironside: Ragnar Lodbrok’s Most Famous Son
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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7 Wars That Nearly Happened (But Didn’t)
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Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally?
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a year ago
Here are a few modest ideas.
TheCollector
How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
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The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
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Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th Century writing templates typography and calligraphy turn visual language into something beautiful. Beginning in the early 20th Century, the Ludlow Typograph Company (1906 to late...
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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African History...
Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus...
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Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
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10 Must-See Historic Landmarks in Florida
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Gap Week: December 1, 2023
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
a year ago
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
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“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” – Meryl Meisler Before cameras became ubiquitous and the billions of instantly sharable and instantly forgettable pictures formed the backdrop to our more insular digital lives,...
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over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
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Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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African History...
a brief note on themes in African art.
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
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Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
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What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop?
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9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career
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Who Were the Disciples Thomas, Judas and Simon?
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5 Quotes by Sartre Explained: What These Words Mean for Us Today
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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Trying to Understand...
The Politics of Exhaustion.
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And the exhaustion of politics.
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England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes
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Louis XIV: History’s Longest-Reigning Monarch
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8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors
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This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those...
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5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy : Why the Democrats Are Responsible for...
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The Hot Potato Changes Hands Again
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Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history
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plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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What Is Voguing?
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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Gap Week: December 27, 2024 (Year in Review)
Hey folks! Year is coming to a close, so once again I’m going to offer a bit of an end-of-year...
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When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
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Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
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Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement
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How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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Patterns in Humanity
Where parents make a difference
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Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
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Explore Ancient Rome by Visiting These 6 Sites
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What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature?
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20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome
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Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
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Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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Euripides’ Lost Plays
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Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
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Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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Have We Become Anti-Human?
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Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
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What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism?
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The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
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This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old World’ from the classical period to the turn of the 20th century.
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Do you need to be Good to be a Good leader?
is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
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is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
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Malta & Its Role in World War II: A Crucial Fortress Island
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Going to Pieces Slowly...
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5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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What Were Gustav Klimt’s Composition Techniques?
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4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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What Is Gnosticism?
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What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
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Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from 1875-1925, writes Albert Seligman. His luxurious Gift Books of the early 20th century were covered in vellum and issued in signed limited editions with tipped-in color...
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How Iran Won the West
How Iran Won the West
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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African History...
Seafaring, trade and travel in the African Atlantic. ca. 1100-1900.
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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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!
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Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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Columbine 25 Years On
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Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
TheCollector
Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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Who Were the Wright Brothers?
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5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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How Did the Victorian Dead Body Trade Operate?
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Two Paintings Once Stolen by Nazis Are Donated to the Louvre Museum
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7 months ago
Flashbak
A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter...
7 months ago
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
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New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s...
6 months ago
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s mix of fashion, art, and music at clubs like Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager’s Studio 54 and Howard Stein and Peppo Vanini’s Xenon, where nightlife and performance met. Distribution...
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what...
5 months ago
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what to do
Flashbak
Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
7 months ago
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
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Britons Caught in the French Revolution
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
9 months ago
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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Classical Wisdom
Sophocles' Swansong
Oedipus at Colonus
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Aristotle on Luck
Do You Feel Lucky?
a year ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Tennessee You Should Visit
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Navel Gaze?
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
a year ago
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
TheCollector
Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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7 months ago
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
4 months ago
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
TheCollector
Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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9 months ago
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What Are Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Top Achievements?
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Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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a year ago
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The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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4 months ago
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Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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Monet’s London Paintings to Reunite After 120 Years
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
3 months ago
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
TheCollector
Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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Classical Wisdom
Gaius Marius
... and the Fall of the Republic
a year ago
... and the Fall of the Republic
TheCollector
Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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8 months ago
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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3 months ago
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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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a year ago
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Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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3 months ago
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What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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4 months ago
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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye
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10 months ago
TheCollector
10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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3 months ago
Flashbak
British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos
Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge...
2 months ago
Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge came upon this album of pictures. “I find images that resonate with me and then with that I try to bring their characters to life in my work,” she tells us. “I bought the slides on...
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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TheCollector
What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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6 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for...
6 months ago
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom.
government in central Africa.
a year ago
government in central Africa.
TheCollector
The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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a year ago
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U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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7 months ago
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Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces of news.
12 months ago
And some bits and pieces of news.
TheCollector
What Is Panpsychism?
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TheCollector
Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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10 months ago
Flashbak
American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles...
8 months ago
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
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Were They Really World Wars? WWI & WWII Outside of Europe
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Who Was Ben Black Elk?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Magna Graecia
Greek or Roman?
3 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
10 months ago
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
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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 Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/25/2024 - 11:01
a month ago
‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/25/2024 - 11:01
TheCollector
Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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a year ago
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New Alphonse Mucha Museum to Open in Prague
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from...
6 months ago
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from Japan. It’s a subject we’ve visited before with the Yokai Horrors from the 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll. Thought to originate in the mid 1800s, the artist behind the Kaikidan...
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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What Is the History of Valentine’s Day?
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11 months ago
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Washburn Gallery in NY Permanently Closes After Half a Century
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a year ago
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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Hundred Rabbits
an island to oneself
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things...
over a year ago
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...
TheCollector
Who Was Frantz Fanon?
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5 Women in Philosophy of Mind You Should Know
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Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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Archaeologists Find Colorful Still Life Frescoes at Pompeii
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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5 of the Most Important Magical Realist Writers
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KAWS: 11 Things You Should Know
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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History Today Feed
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
j.hoare
Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
a year ago
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
j.hoare
Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
History Today Feed
Death of the King of Siam
Death of the King of Siam
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
3 months ago
Death of the King of Siam
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
TheCollector
Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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African History...
The Swazi kingdom and its neighbours in the 19th century: from the rise of Zulu to the British
an island in the maelstrom
over a year ago
an island in the maelstrom
History Today Feed
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
7 months ago
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
TheCollector
From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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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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Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known...
7 months ago
Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known as visible light, or light that can be processed and seen by the human eye. It’s a little fraction of all the EM radiation around us. There are many other parts of the EM spectrum...
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How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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a year ago
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10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest
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2 months ago
Open Culture
How A Charlie Brown Christmas, and Its Beloved Soundtrack Album, Almost Never Happened
A Charlie Brown Christmas uses a cast of amateur child voice actors, deals with the theme of...
3 weeks ago
A Charlie Brown Christmas uses a cast of amateur child voice actors, deals with the theme of seasonal depression, and culminates in the recitation of a Bible verse, all to a jazz score. It was not, safe to say, the special that CBS had expected, to say nothing of its sponsor, the...
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Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
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Dreams of Space -...
Yuri's Night is April 12th!
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri...
a year ago
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri Gagarin 1st manned flight into space in Vostok 1, which completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. So this book is also from 1961 suggesting that children should dream of this...
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10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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African History...
A history of the south-western Saharan towns of Tichitt, Walata, Wadan and Chinguetti (800-1912)
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
a year ago
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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12 months ago
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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5 months ago
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What Are the 4 Main Jewish Sects?
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11 months ago
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps
“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that...
7 months ago
“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that community can be brought in to exercise the way.” – Emma Hart Willard Emma Willard (February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was a trailblazing American educator who founded the first...
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Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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a year ago
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Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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a year ago
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Italian vs. Northern Renaissance Art: What’s the Difference?
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4 weeks ago
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Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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10 months ago
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Audrey Flack, Pioneer of Photorealism, Dies at 93
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6 months ago
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Victorian Fashion: Were Corsets Really That Uncomfortable?
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NY Denny Gallery Shuts Down After Ten Years
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a year ago
Dr Alun Withey
The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners,...
over a year ago
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
Classical Wisdom
The Mystery of Morpheus
Who is the God of Dreams?
a year ago
Who is the God of Dreams?
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