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Rediscovered Quentin Metsys Madonna Heads to Auction
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Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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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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Hey folks! Year is coming to a close, so once again I’m going to offer a bit of an end-of-year reflection on the state of the project, along with a brief ‘what’s on the stove’ coverage of what may be coming up. Also, here’s a cat picture: In terms of the project itself, 2024 was,...
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The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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In the Shallows Of The Deep State.
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Beyond Mars (1960)
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Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps in space including: solar sailing, travel to Saturn via long distance trips to the outer solar system, multi-year hibernation travel, hydroponics, and visiting other solar...
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Volksgeist: Who Was Johann Gottfried Herder?
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What Is the History of Constitution Day in the US?
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Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
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Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy : Why the Democrats Are Responsible for...
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of...
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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
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Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
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In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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How to Save Democracy
The Importance of the Civic Bargain
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Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
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In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
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The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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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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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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Leeds Kids the 1970s
Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the...
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Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the picture below of kids ‘tobogganing’ down a dry, rocky slope in the northern English city of Leeds in the 1970s “The Cresta Run”. It is not the original Cresta Run, which is a...
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House
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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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In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
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How to Explore the Galapagos Islands for Its Natural Wonders
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Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
An experiment with historical simulation
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An experiment with historical simulation
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Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the...
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From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
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Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
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We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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6 Astounding Achievements by Maya Lin
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plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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What makes a good friend?
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'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
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The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere?
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The Historically Accurate Greek Armors of Dimitrios Katsikis (Interview)
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The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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The Sense Of An Ending.
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But right back where we started from.
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1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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How to use generative AI for historical research
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What is Wolfgang Tillmans Most Famous For?
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Hunter S Thompson Sets Fire To His Christmas Tree (1990)
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“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller before the writer torched his Christmas Tree In January 1990, Sam Allis was on assignment for TIME magazine at writer Hunter S. Thompson’s (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) home...
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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Tate Modern Reopens Its 10th Floor Viewing Platform
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Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late...
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We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late 1970s to 1980. Upon graduating from The New England School of Photography in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974, he immediately took to the streets. Here he tell us his story of living in...
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New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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Who Was the Real Mona Lisa?
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What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
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(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one of the most consequential US elections in modern history.) The story of a Pennsylvania Dutch classic dessert is as colorful as its unusual name… In 1517, Martin Luther began a...
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England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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The Life of Aristotle
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What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance
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The Wrong Stuff
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
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At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
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How to Steal From Homer
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
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Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
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5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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Join this year's course for a strong foundation in the Classics
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a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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A Strange Defeat.
A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
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A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
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Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
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Should you meet your heroes?
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How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt?
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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Interview with Nicolas Party: Pastels, Rosalba Carriera, & More
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From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
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Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
a year ago
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often...
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“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before, and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them’ – Helen Keller Helen Keller is best known for her campaign to help the disabled and support for...
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry...
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“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
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Why are MYTHS Important?
Podcast with Stephen Fry
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‘D-Day Has Come’
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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Bullshit Jobs: The Emptiness of Life In A Corporate Office
“If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment,...
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“If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead From faces...
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Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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Summary of changes for June 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor?
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
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Plastic Surgery as Art? 6 Facts About ORLAN
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Dreams of Space -...
The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a...
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This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
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Hunter S. Thompson Remembers Jimmy Carter’s Captivating Bob Dylan Speech (1974)
51 years ago, Hunter S. Thompson wrote Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72, which “is still...
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51 years ago, Hunter S. Thompson wrote Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72, which “is still considered a kind of bible of political reporting,” noted Matt Taibbi in a 40th anniversary edition of the book. Fear and Loathing ’72 entered the canon of American political...
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place ...
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The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
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What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
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“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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The Surprising Origins of Wonder Woman: A Revolutionary Comic History
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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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11 Amazing Rooms & Artworks in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj
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The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the...
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For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the pointy guitar, the hair, the band, the drive, the tights, the most piercing scream outside a Pee Wee Herman meets Cher Christmas convention. And you also had the hair. In the 1980s …...
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Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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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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$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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Freedom to be “wrong”: the only real advantage of democracy
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A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900.
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How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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KAWS: 11 Things You Should Know
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The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
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So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
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What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps
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“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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The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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Summary of changes for February
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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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
GrimGrains,...
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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
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“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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London’s National Portrait Gallery Opens First Francis Bacon Show
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Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might
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8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Historic Copenhagen Stock Exchange Catches Fire
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What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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Death of a Turkey Legend
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Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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What is the Eye of Ra?
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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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Who Was the Only U.S. President to Serve More Than Two Terms?
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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10 Historic Towns Near New York City to Visit
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Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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Prometheus: The Titan Who Defied Zeus and Created Humanity
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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6 Inventions to Thank the Aztec, Maya, & Inca For
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‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
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Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
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Why is medieval art so weird?
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Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
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How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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A Wasting Asset?
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The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
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In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
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Norman Rockwell Works Dispute Finally Over?
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Was Walt Whitman a Transcendentalist?
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Ancient Marble Floor Restored Underwater in Italy
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What Is Berlin Science Week? Everything You Need to Know
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Do You Listen Well?
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Another of my essays in French.
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
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Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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African History...
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Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
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Summary of changes for May
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
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5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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A Brief History of Collecting Art
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History of the Automobile: How Did We Get to Electric Vehicles?
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How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece
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A Collection of...
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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Chili Pepper’s Fiery History: The Berry That Conquered the World
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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Summary of changes for September 2024
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3 months ago
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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.
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Collectible Toys Worth $1000s: Rare Finds With High Prices
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Fate and Free Will
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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Too Much of Not A Lot
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Winning the day and losing the war.
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Father of the Turks
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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Understanding 5 Famous Quotes by Descartes
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Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
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“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” —Duane Michals Through image sequences, framing, multiple exposures,...
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Who is Ana Mendieta? An Icon of Environmental Art
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Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
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What Was the Hanseatic League?
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The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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Top 10 Plays by William Shakespeare
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Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
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Another Of My Essays In French
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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5 Most Influential Blues Musicians of All Time
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Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a...
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For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
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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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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Overcoming Bias
Decision Selection Bias
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As futarchy interest and activity are way up lately, this seems a good time to elaborate on one of its most technical issues, one that @metaproph3t also discussed recently: decision selection bias.
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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The American Patriot War: “The Americans Are Coming!”
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captain what is this
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
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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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Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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Anti-slavery laws and Abolitionist thought in pre-colonial Africa
the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
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the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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Who Won the Battle of Stones River?
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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A Collection of...
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This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the triumph of the Roman legions in the third and second century over the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we looked at some of the operational and strategic...
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Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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10 Powerful Women From Folklore and Mythology Around the World
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
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Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
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When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
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“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
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goji no chaimu
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
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After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
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Ancient Greek Art
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
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One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
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Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes...
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“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes Stephen Harmon, a retired lawyer who first lived on New York City’s West End Avenue and 73rd street. “I am a photographer and set out to preserve it on film because I knew the...
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Francisco Goya’s Descent Into Madness: The Disturbing Black Paintings
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What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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6 Things You Should Know About Pop Art
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
Aliens and the Enlightenment
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Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
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Hidden History
The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire...
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An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire country. By the 1870s, the once-rural agrarian United States was beginning to emerge as an industrial power. The Civil War had spurred the rapid development of industry such as iron...
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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Summary of changes for April 2024
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
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Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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