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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
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5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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Toxic Walls: Why Was Victorian Green Wallpaper So Deadly?
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Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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Res Obscura
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Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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Hendrik Verwoerd’s Life & Death: The Architect of Apartheid
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a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
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an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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With a few more books and a few old ideas.
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What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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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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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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Dreams of Space -...
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The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
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I...
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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The Death of a Mnemonist
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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Pera Palace: The Istanbul Muse for Literary Giants
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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Hey everyone!
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June.
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
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Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
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Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
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The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
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More Banksy Animals Appear Across London
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Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
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What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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Thu, 11/28/2024 - 09:32
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The radical philosophy of the Hatata: a 17th century treatise by the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob
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the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
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Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford...
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation...
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
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Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:46
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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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The American Patriot War: “The Americans Are Coming!”
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
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6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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Reforming England’s Divorce Law
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10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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What Are the Romance Languages?
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Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
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We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
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What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement
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5 Timeless Financial Tips from Greek and Roman Philosophers
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5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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How French Was Medieval England?
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The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
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What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
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In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
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5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
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Newest Banksy Mural Guarded After Vandalism
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