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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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Britons Caught in the French Revolution
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History
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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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, added image maps, animation controls, and wrote a guide....
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
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In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we can prepare to confront it. If you only have time to read one part, read the proposals for what we can do to resist.
It’s understandable that many people feel exhausted at the...
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
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Herodotus Versus Thucydides?
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What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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An Art Lovers Guide to Outdoor Exhibitions in Japan
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3 Dark Age Kings of Britain Confirmed by Archaeology
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What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
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We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
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Lucio Fontana Piece Could Set Auction Record at Sotheby’s
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Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China?
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Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
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The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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Women Portraitists of the Renaissance: A League of Their Own
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[Ebook] The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
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Simulating History with ChatGPT
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The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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Dreams of Space -...
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An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
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10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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Hey everyone!
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
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Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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Freak Shows: The Truth Behind Beauty and the Beast
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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Catching Nessie on Film
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Catching Nessie on Film
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the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
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The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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7 of the Most Iconic Monuments in Russia
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Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
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Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From?
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Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
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When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
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Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
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The Dutch Throne in an Exhibition for the First Time
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Patterns in Humanity
When Lightning Strikes... Literally
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A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
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Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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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.
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100r.co, added charging electronics, solar cooking and solar...
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The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
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The Life of Malcolm X: “You Had Better Make Some Noise”
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History
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Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the...
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Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
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