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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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The Last Day of World War One
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
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At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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Res Obscura
Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?
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At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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What Was the Mason-Dixon Line?
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Hundred Rabbits
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a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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8 Unmissable UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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The Lost Years of Jesus
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Flashbak
Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
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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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The Inuit and the Canadian Arctic: A Brief History
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Classical Wisdom
How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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Flashbak
London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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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...
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10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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Should Death Concern Us?
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Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
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What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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Stained Glass Sold At Sotheby’s is Stolen From Notre Dame?
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
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Blindspots and Biographies
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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African History...
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the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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Aristotle on Luck
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What Is the Origin of Cowpox (& How Did It Cure Smallpox)?
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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Flashbak
Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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Classical Wisdom
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Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
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Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
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This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
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Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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History of the Automobile: How Did We Get to Electric Vehicles?
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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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What to See on Vienna’s Long Night of Museums
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Jackie Kennedy’s Georgetown Mansion Goes on Sale
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Open Culture
Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019
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It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not that it isn’t true for some of them, who tend to relegate themselves to smaller subgenres: consult Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music for a map of the sonic territory.) And it’s...
Classical Wisdom
Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
What should we do with Seneca?
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What should we do with Seneca?
African History...
Empire building and Government in the Yorubaland: a history of Oyo (1600-1836)
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Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
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Classical Wisdom
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Lost and Found
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A Collection of...
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
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Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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TheCollector
The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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Classical Wisdom
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The Essential Greeks Returns!
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"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution?
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What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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Flashbak
Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it...
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London Olympics and Tony Blair’s Decision on Parthenon Marbles
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Was Henry VIII Really a Protestant?
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Rise of Extractive Politics
It's about having small expectations.
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It's about having small expectations.
History Today Feed
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
Classical Wisdom
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
4 months ago
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
TheCollector
The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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weird medieval guys
Do you have less free time than a medieval peasant?
A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
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A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
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What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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a year ago
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How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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Wrong Side of...
The Tears of Strangers are only water
On the limits of empathy
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Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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a year ago
Res Obscura
Why I love etymologies
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
7 months ago
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words matters
Global Inequality...
Why not Keynes?
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
a year ago
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
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Who Won the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House?
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What Was the First Written Language?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist
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TheCollector
Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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a year ago
African History...
a brief note on the origin of African civilizations
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
a year ago
plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
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Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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