Dreams of Space -...
Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came...
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The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
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Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
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In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
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Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry?
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Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
Hakum, added two drawings to the...
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
The Allure of Medieval Churches
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7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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France’s Long March Against Racism
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10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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6 Female Pre-Raphaelite Artists You Should Know
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
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Magritte Sets $121 Million Auction Record
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10 of Rosalba Carriera’s Best Artworks
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Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights
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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
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“I Have a Dream”: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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Who Are the Klu Klux Klan?
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Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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Who Was Walt Whitman?
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant
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Grand Palais to Reopen for the Paris Summer Olympics
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What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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History Today Review of the Year
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What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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7 Museums to Visit in Athens
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Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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The Obligatory End-of-Year Essay.
But do me a favour, and read it anyway.
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Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
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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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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
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TheCollector
Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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Wrong Side of...
Fellow believers or fellow citizens?
Liberalism dies in darkness
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Liberalism dies in darkness
Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
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over a year ago
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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Flashbak
William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads....
10 months ago
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
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What Are the 8 Best Art Attractions in Budapest? (local tips)
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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Who Were the Pilgrims?
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Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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Thefts From Heritage Sites in the U.K. Are Rising
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Dreams of Space -...
Beyond Mars (1960)
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
a year ago
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps in space including: solar sailing, travel to Saturn via long distance trips to the outer solar system, multi-year hibernation travel, hydroponics, and visiting other solar...
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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Three Early Basquiats to Sell at Phillips This Spring
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The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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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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First Nations of the Canadian Subarctic: A Brief History
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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Trying to Understand...
Arming Ourselves Against The Future.
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With a few more books and a few old ideas.
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Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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The Nature of Love
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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Trying to Understand...
Out Of Control.
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
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Fear the worst, hope for the best.
History Today Feed
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
Flashbak
Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
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For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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What Is the Gospel of Truth?
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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Monsters of Mythology
Who Made the Top Ten?
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What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
9 months ago
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
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What Is Pragmatism? (Philosophy, History, Notable Proponents)
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving?
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1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
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JamesHoare
Mon, 03/11/2024 -...
9 months ago
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/11/2024 - 15:56
TheCollector
How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa,...
7 months ago
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) look at the how the Roman military system and its manipular legion were able to defeat the Hellenistic military system and its Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and...
Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
10 months ago
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
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How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
Advice from the Ancients
11 months ago
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What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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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...
a year ago
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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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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Who are the Yazidis & What Are Their Beliefs?
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Boycotts of the Olympic Games: A History of Sports & Politics
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The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
j.hoare
Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
11 months ago
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, updated jib cars, and added new recommendations on the...
African History...
A history of Grande Comore (Ngazidja) ca. 700-1900.
State and society on a cosmopolitan island
11 months ago
State and society on a cosmopolitan island
African History...
a brief note on the intellectual contributions of African scholars in the diaspora
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
8 months ago
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
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5 Military Geniuses From History
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
a year ago
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
TheCollector
Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly?
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Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
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The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:46
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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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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
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England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly,...
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This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples raised armies to fight the Romans (and others) in the third through first centuries BC. Last time, we looked at the subsistence basis of these societies...
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New Year, Old Books
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JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
TheCollector
Who Were the Allied Powers?
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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A Collection of...
Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
a year ago
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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Rastafarianism: Religion or Philosophy?
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Art Basel 2024 Opens to the Public: Here Are Some of Its Highlights
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Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints
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Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music...
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Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
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‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
j.hoare
Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
a year ago
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
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Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
TheCollector
Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ Targeted Again After Protestors Jailed
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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Res Obscura
Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
On cartography as historical argument
a year ago
On cartography as historical argument
Overcoming Bias
Cultural Scenario Probabilities
On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative...
2 weeks ago
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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Flashbak
L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
5 months ago
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
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What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
a year ago
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
TheCollector
Who Is the Real Banksy? Rumors Behind the Street Artist
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
And Most Mysterious...
2 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
projects and pain
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
over a year ago
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
'If we can't...
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
Wunderland...
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Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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Newell Convers Wyeth Painting: From $4 to $191,000
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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Two Paintings Once Stolen by Nazis Are Donated to the Louvre Museum
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10 Must-Visit Historic Small Towns in the Adirondacks
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10 National and State Parks in the US Where You Can See Ancient Redwoods
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The Rise of Fascism in Italy & The Two “Black Years”
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Guimarães: 9 Historic Sites in Portugal’s Cradle City
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The Past Is Another Country.
A book review from the future.
5 months ago
A book review from the future.
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Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor
The Life and Work of Pheidias
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The Life and Work of Pheidias
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? Part II
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost...
7 months ago
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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Patterns in Humanity
Where parents make a difference
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
9 months ago
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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Wrong Side of...
On the Tory Cult of Personality and its Consequences
Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull
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Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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The 5 Most Ridiculous Ways the CIA Tried & Failed to Kill Fidel Castro
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What Was the Chaco War?
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The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World
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The Dutch Throne in an Exhibition for the First Time
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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How Has the Tower of London Changed Over Time?
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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Summary of changes for April 2024
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career
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British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
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Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
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When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
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How Did Averroes Influence the West?
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Dreams of Space -...
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What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
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With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
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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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6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
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Dr Alun Withey
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Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century. During this period, a whole range of retailers advertised their goods and services to appeal to ladies and gentlemen of taste. Without discussing anything so base as price or...
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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Get to Know Alma Mahler: Composer, Muse, and Scandalous Woman
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,”...
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Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
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French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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The Immortals
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...and the feared Persian Army
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What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
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You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain – America, A Horse With No Name We don’t know where British … Continue reading "American...
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La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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Reforming England’s Divorce Law
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
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Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an...
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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What Are the Abraham Tapestries?
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7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know
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Who cares about Homer, anyway?
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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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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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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In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
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How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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What Was the First Written Language?
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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On the Obscenity of Ovid
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Why Early Modern Books Are So Beautiful
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