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The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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Hundred Rabbits
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over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
Left, re-wrote documentation, redesigned the UX for...
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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Dreams of Space -...
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This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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a year ago
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Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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Forgotten Gods
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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TheCollector
How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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Arming Ourselves Against The Future.
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a year ago
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
TheCollector
Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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Flashbak
Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
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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 7 Best Historical Sites in Bangkok, Thailand
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Hundred Rabbits
hello fujisan
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over a year ago
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
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Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
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a year ago
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
TheCollector
What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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Flashbak
London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra...
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6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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Another Of My Essays in French
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3 months ago
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Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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10 Must-Visit Historic Small Towns in the Adirondacks
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Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
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11 months ago
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Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
Flashbak
Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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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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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
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What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron...
a year ago
This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron Age Mediterranean (focusing on the period from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC): the humble, effective and ubiquitous thrusting spear. In particular, I want to discuss the striking...
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Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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Flashbak
Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city...
8 months ago
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
How ASEAN Lost its Way
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Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
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TheCollector
Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
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Helter Skelter: Who Was Charles Manson?
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
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All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
Flashbak
Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink...
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He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times – Tubthumping by Chumbawumba Pub? Go on, then. Let’s go. And …...
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Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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Caligula's Forgotten Legacy
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Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
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Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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Who Was George Eliot?
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Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured...
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Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured pictures, interviews, drafts and other materials made by member of the Exit Photography Group – Nicholas Battye, Chris Steele-Perkins and Paul Trevor. Created between 1974 and...
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Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot...
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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10 Powerful Women From Folklore and Mythology Around the World
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Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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Who Was Averroes?
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Top 10 Depictions of the Annunciation in Art
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Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most...
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As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most likely die in the end. In the final instalment of the four-strong Joe and Petunia series, the British couple illustrate the dangers driving on bad tyres by driving into a tree. ...
Dreams of Space -...
The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
12 months ago
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that was a give-away from Lord and Taylor's Department stores. With it's moon dust snowflakes and 1970s design it is a winner every Christmas. I especially enjoy how Santa has to get...
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World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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Let's Be Enemies
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Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
History Today Feed
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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Flashbak
Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
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We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
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Rediscovered Quentin Metsys Madonna Heads to Auction
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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The Political Effects of the Vietnam War
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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.
a year ago
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some odds and ends.
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Mothers of the Ancient World
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Mothers of the Ancient World
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6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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6 Misconceptions About Biblical Angels
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12 Most Important Art Techniques of Modern Times
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What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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The Enigmatic Archeology of Chichen Itza: A World Wonder
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Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love
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Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
10 months ago
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
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Does FREE WILL Exist?
And if not, what are the consequences?
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And if not, what are the consequences?
TheCollector
First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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Trying to Understand...
The Power Of Absent Things.
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
9 months ago
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
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...
a month 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...
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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Flashbak
16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime...
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Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime thrillers laced with smoky cynicism, femme fatales and amoral ambiguity first produced by Hollywood in the 1940s. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in...
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Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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Hundred Rabbits
the promise of pancakes
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had...
over a year ago
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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CrimethInc.
Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the...
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6 Outrageous Whaling Stories
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What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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The Darien Scheme: Scotland’s Unsuccessful Settlement in the Americas
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What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
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What is needed to stop violent cycles?
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The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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Wieland: How Religious Extremism Shaped the 1st American Gothic Novel
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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Inventing Cyrillic
Inventing Cyrillic
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Inventing Cyrillic
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Who Was African American Lawman Bass Reeves?
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Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
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This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
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Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House
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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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Who Were the Axis Powers?
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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
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6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism?
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
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Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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The Great Fire of Smyrna
The Great Fire of Smyrna
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Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
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The Great Fire of Smyrna
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5 Deadliest Sword Designs
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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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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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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a revolution with a contested legacy.
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration
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Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by German-American-French artist and founder of the Dada movement Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976). The book, which marks the beginning of his close friendship with French poet Paul...
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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Cubism and Collage: How Picasso and Braque Revolutionized Art
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style
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The Many Roads to Rome
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The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
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Rastafarianism: Religion or Philosophy?
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Dry Toilet Installation
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over a year ago
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer it over the ready-made models. We learned tons doing it, and now our toilet is perfectly suited to our space. The pandemic has pushed more people into boat and van living (to travel...
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Cars of Britain in the 1970s
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In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
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Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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Gap Week: August 2, 2024
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Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
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Yuruparí: Amazon’s Unique Myth of Creation & Ritual of Passage
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The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review)
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Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
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France’s Long March Against Racism
France’s Long March Against Racism
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France’s Long March Against Racism
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Sun, 12/03/2023 - 01:01
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The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
a year ago
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
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Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
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The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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3 Dark Age Kings of Britain Confirmed by Archaeology
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Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won?
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The Silence of the Elephants
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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Where parents make a difference
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Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
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The Kiel Mutiny: An Attempt to End WWI?
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
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Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
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George Washington’s The Revolutionary War Letter on Sale
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit the Pyramids?
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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The History of Porto & 21 Amazing Historic Sites You Should Visit
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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How to Give a Speech
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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