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Sufism in the Ottoman Balkans
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The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
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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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8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
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History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal.
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It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
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What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
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Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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Who Was Julian?
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7 of the Most Iconic Monuments in Russia
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Can Any Good Come From War?
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The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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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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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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6 Important Female Aboriginal Writers and Activists You Should Read
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How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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How Can We Love Ourselves?
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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a brief note on the long history of African diplomacy.
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
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historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
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Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
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What Government Governs Best?
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Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
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How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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Inventing Cyrillic
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Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
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Inventing Cyrillic
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Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
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Sparta and… Scotland?
Laconic wit through the centuries
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Laconic wit through the centuries
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What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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What Are the Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela?
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A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
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How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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Open Culture
How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
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Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
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17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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10 Architectural Landmarks You Must See in Valencia
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What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
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Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
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Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, January 12, 2024
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a...
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Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a draft of something I have promised by the end of the month (so this may not be the only Fireside this month). That said, it seemed like a good time to discuss trade, the sea and...
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Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
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This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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8 Things You Should Know About Wangechi Mutu
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Audrey Flack, Pioneer of Photorealism, Dies at 93
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a complete history of Mombasa ca. 600-1895.
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Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
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6 Must-See English Castles
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State and society in southern Ethiopia: the Oromo kingdom of Jimma (ca. 1830-1932)
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its...
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Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its history and contribution to the country's cultural heritage. While Ethiopian historiography is often focused on the historical developments in the northern regions of the country, some...
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6 (In)Famous Gunslingers of the Wild West
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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What Were the Religious Beliefs of Hans Holbein the Younger?
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Pera Palace: The Istanbul Muse for Literary Giants
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Does Karma Exist?
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Does what goes around come around?
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London’s Old Master Sales Squeak by Expectations
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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How to Read Film Like a Language
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
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Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History
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Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
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“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The making of pictures is to writing what laughing gas is to the Asian influenza.'” – Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse Than Death Kurt Vonnegut liked to draw. Other writers, notably J.R.R....
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Comic Books in WWII: When American Comics Went to War
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Who Was Eusebius?
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Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s...
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Hundred Rabbits
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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...
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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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Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
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Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor
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The Life and Work of Pheidias
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10 Must-See Exhibitions in Europe This Year (2025)
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Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi?
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
TheCollector
Who Were the Legendary Mountain Men of the Old West?
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How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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Freak Shows: The Truth Behind Beauty and the Beast
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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Flashbak
Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage....
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26 Found Photos of Australian Life In the 1970s
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The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry Humphries (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) created Sir Les Patterson and made him Australia’s cultural ambassador. Drunk, lecherous and offensive, after Sir Les made his debut...
African History...
a brief note on the intellectual contributions of African scholars in the diaspora
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
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the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
TheCollector
Italian Police Thwart “Tomb Raiders” at Etruscan Burial Site
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Trying to Understand...
The Threat of Back to Normal
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10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
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Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
History Today Feed
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
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Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
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Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
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Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
TheCollector
The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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Trying to Understand...
Will it Bend or Will it Break?
The international system, that is.
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The international system, that is.
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
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Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
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Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain?
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Who Were the Maccabees?
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Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
Open Culture
The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
a week ago
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
Trying to Understand...
Bringing It All Back Home
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
a year ago
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
TheCollector
Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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9 months ago
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Who Was Django Reinhardt?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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TheCollector
What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
In Praise of the Preterite
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
a year ago
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
Classical Wisdom
Happy Birthday Marcus Aurelius!
A Celebration of Virtue
7 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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12 months ago
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Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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8 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
a year ago
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
Res Obscura
Post-postal
What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
a month ago
What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
TheCollector
How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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7 months ago
Flashbak
Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an...
11 months ago
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an Alice Thr0ugh The Looking Glass are so much about the food. Little surprise then to discover The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook: A Culinary Diversion by John Fisher, first published...
TheCollector
Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mother of Rome
9 months ago
TheCollector
9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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2 months ago
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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a year ago
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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4 months ago
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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a year ago
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What Are the Top 7 Must-See Attractions in Mallorca?
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5 months ago
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How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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a year ago
TheCollector
5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
2 months ago
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
TheCollector
How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
One Of My Essays In Dutch.
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and...
11 months ago
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
Classical Wisdom
Socrates and the Soul
And the Immortal Soul
5 months ago
TheCollector
6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
a week ago
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
Overcoming Bias
Arntz-Gray & I Talk Feminism
At 6:30-8p ET today, I’ll be talking with Regan Arntz-Gray on
2 weeks ago
At 6:30-8p ET today, I’ll be talking with Regan Arntz-Gray on
TheCollector
Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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a year ago
Dr Alun Withey
How Much?! Barbers & the Price of Shaving.
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and,...
over a year ago
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
TheCollector
Why Is Pompeii So Important?
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TheCollector
Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
And Now for Something Completely Different.
Am I me? Are You you? ?
a year ago
African History...
a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa.
a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
11 months ago
a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
TheCollector
10 Ancient Sites in New Mexico You Should Visit
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Wrong Side of...
Fellow believers or fellow citizens?
Liberalism dies in darkness
a month ago
Liberalism dies in darkness
Open Culture
Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens...
a week ago
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
TheCollector
The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons
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TheCollector
The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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a year ago
Open Culture
99-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Sings & Dances in a Touching New Coldplay Video, Directed by Spike Jonze
There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music...
a week ago
There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music video, Mr. Van Dyke dances barefoot and sings knowingly a little off-key—before reflecting on a century of life on this planet. What is love? Is he afraid of dying? What does luck...
African History...
A history of the Massina empire (1818-1862)
the sucessor of Songhai
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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2 weeks ago
Flashbak
Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great...
9 months ago
“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,...
TheCollector
10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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3 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
TheCollector
What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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8 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical...
5 months ago
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical assumptions of Imperator: Rome, a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, set during the rise and collapse of the Roman Republic from 304-27 BC and covering the broader...
Classical Wisdom
Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs
Factoids From the Ancient World
a month ago
Factoids From the Ancient World
TheCollector
Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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10 months ago
TheCollector
9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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a year ago
Global Inequality...
Devant la guerre
On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
2 weeks ago
On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
TheCollector
3 Beautiful Places in the North of England Tourists Tend to Neglect
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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TheCollector
What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Last Call for Classical Gifts
Shipping Cutoff imminent
a year ago
TheCollector
3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
Flashbak
Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines....
10 months ago
Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines. A collection of his interviews, with the likes of Udo Kier, Divine, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Tura Satana, was published in the volume Dark Stars Rising: Conversations from the...
TheCollector
10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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a year ago
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Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
9 months ago
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
j.hoare
Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
a year ago
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
j.hoare
Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
TheCollector
What Is the History of Valentine’s Day?
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10 months ago
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in Florida for Your Bucket List
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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a year ago
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West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Collectible Toys Worth $1000s: Rare Finds With High Prices
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3 months ago
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What Are the Origins of Santa Claus?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
7 months ago
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
TheCollector
What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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5 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Culture Status Report
I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my...
2 weeks ago
I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my last post make this a good time to take stock.
TheCollector
Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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6 months ago
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Discover the Klondike Gold Rush: Frozen Riches
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach,...
9 months ago
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
Flashbak
William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
8 months ago
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r, released a guide to diesel Engine Care.
Wunderland Rabbits,...
TheCollector
The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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6 months ago
TheCollector
The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Gaius Marius
... and the Fall of the Republic
11 months ago
... and the Fall of the Republic
Flashbak
That Time Kenneth Anger Wanted to Make a Film about Cricket – Exclusive
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next...
10 months ago
St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
TheCollector
Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini: A Friendship Ruined by Ghosts
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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12 months ago
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British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
over a year ago
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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6 months ago
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Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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a year ago
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10 Films for Photography Enthusiasts
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10 months ago
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What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings?
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9 months ago
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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11 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
The Dark Ages
A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
2 months ago
A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
TheCollector
The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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8 months ago
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History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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10 months ago
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Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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11 months ago
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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a year ago
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Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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10 months ago
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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6 months ago
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Tolkien and the Classics
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
The Essential Greeks
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