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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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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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Too Much of Not A Lot
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Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
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Who Is the Archangel Gabriel?
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5 of the Most Important Magical Realist Writers
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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CrimethInc.
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Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
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Forgotten Sandro Botticelli Piece Seized by Italian Authorities
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Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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Mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait Sells for $32 Million
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Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings
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11 months ago
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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over a year ago
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
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a year ago
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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4 months ago
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Dr Alun Withey
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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...
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How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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Stock Car Racing in 1972
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in...
a month ago
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1972, women only raced each other, hair was grown out crewcuts slicked and draped, and TV-led big business had yet to move in....
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6 Things You Should Know about Sculptor Augusta Savage
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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The Story of Thebes
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten...
a year ago
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten city-state...
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A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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4 months ago
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Res Obscura
There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
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a year ago
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8 months ago
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How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
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7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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Flashbak
Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve...
10 months ago
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Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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Sorites Paradox: Why Traditional Logic Is Not Omnipotent
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Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of...
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China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version...
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China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
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The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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Elton John Collection Goes on Sale After 21 Years
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New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’?
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Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections
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Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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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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Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
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As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most likely die in the end. In the final instalment of the four-strong Joe and Petunia series, the British couple illustrate the dangers driving on bad tyres by driving into a tree. ...
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Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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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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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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Cars of Britain in the 1970s
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of...
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In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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British Museum Receives Its Most Valuable Gift Ever
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
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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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Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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Chiaroscuro: The Dramatic Play of Light and Shadow
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What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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When technology follows art
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From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
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Happy Birthday Marcus Aurelius!
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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What Is the Role of First Ladies in US Elections?
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The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
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New York City In The 1960s – A Photographer’s Love story
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For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that I love – New York City,” she says. ” On a good day, I move with the rhythms of the city and feel connected to its soul, spirit and people. The camera is the tool that allows me …...
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How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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Why are MYTHS Important?
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
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Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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When They Were Kids: What Were US Presidents Like as Children?
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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
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Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998) was known to his fans as Orion. To others he was Elvis Presley. Ellis appeared with many artists, including Loretta Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy...
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Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
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Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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African History...
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Into the Waste Land
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Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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Three Early Basquiats to Sell at Phillips This Spring
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What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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Summary Of Changes
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Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
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Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
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A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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A Collection of...
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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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Three years late, but historians are always late
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10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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The Evils Of Professionalism
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‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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The Soldier with a Secret: Who Was Sarah Emma Edmonds?
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Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
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“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
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Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
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What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks
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Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction writing, impressive ‘lamb chops’ – of which he said: “They became a permanent feature of my face, and it is now difficult to believe early photographs that show me without sideburns”...
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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African History...
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plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
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Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
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8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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Columbine 25 Years On
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 1, 2023
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No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
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The Life of Malcolm X: “You Had Better Make Some Noise”
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Summary of changes for November 2024
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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100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the...
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Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
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Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he first spotted at a swap meet in Pasadena, California. We don’t know who took these photographs of David Bowie backstage, James Brown meeting and greeting the fans and many other...
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Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
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Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
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Chili Pepper’s Fiery History: The Berry That Conquered the World
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What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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Restoration Reveals Ancient Colors of Egypt’s Edfu Temple
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Dreams of Space -...
Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the...
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A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the space race but they did have a clear plan laid out for creating the engineers they might need. The school library was usually full of these career books to inspire academic...
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Ivar the Boneless: History, TV Portrayals, and Viking Legends
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‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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Frick Collection Announces April 2025 Reopening
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The case for a Global Sanctuary City
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What if the Syrians can’t return home?
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
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“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might have heard that Ernest Hemingway wrote a six-word short story in response to a $10 bet that so few words could make the reader cry. Hemingway won with: “For sale: Baby shoes. Never...
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
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Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
JamesHoare
Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
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The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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