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America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age (Video)
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Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration
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Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
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New Study May Reveal Stonehenge’s Mysterious Origins
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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How Can We Handle Anxiety?
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
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Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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How Can We Prepare for the Worst?
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Without living forever in fear and worry?
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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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10 Architectural Landmarks You Must See in Valencia
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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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The Dutch Throne in an Exhibition for the First Time
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Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible?
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Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
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Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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The Furies
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Why Did the 1904 Olympic Marathon End in Disaster?
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Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
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This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at Paradox Interactives ancient grand strategy game, Imperator: Rome, which covers (inter alia) the period of the collapse of the Roman Republic, which we generally call the Late...
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What is Digital Art? A Brief History and Tips for Collecting
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
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Mon, 09/09/2024 - 00:00
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
11 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added galley refit, updated lifelines, seamed box cushions, and moisture prevention underliner.
Permacomputing, revamped the page.
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Summary of changes for September 2024
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
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100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
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NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
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a year ago
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How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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Who Invented the Ukulele?
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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How Are Art and Science Related?
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What Is the Philosophy Behind Zen Gardens?
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Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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What Would a Day in the Public Baths of Ancient Rome Look Like?
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Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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Dreams of Space -...
Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
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Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
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Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement
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A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
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Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
a month ago
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
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7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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Was Vincent van Gogh Religious?
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July
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over 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 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....
Classical Wisdom
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Another Of My Essays in French
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
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Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
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9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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Battle of Poitiers, by Charles de Steuben, 1837, via Wikimedia Commons
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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The End of the World?
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‘The Emperor and the Elephant’ by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby review
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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Why Is Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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James Joyce's Ulysses
Retelling of the Odyssey
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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4 Feminist Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi
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The Immortals
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...and the feared Persian Army
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Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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Heracles Captures the Cretan Bull: The Hero’s Seventh Labor
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Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
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At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
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What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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a year ago
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Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
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‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February...
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Nixtamalization: How Ancient Americans Bio-Engineered Corn
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The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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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...
a year ago
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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Collections: The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear
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a year ago
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Dreams of Space -...
I Want To Be A Space Pilot (1961)
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
I Want To Be A Space Pilot is part of a...
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Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
I Want To Be A Space Pilot is part of a series of children's books called "I want to be..." They are essentially a beginning to read career book. I like the very basic illustrations and the straightforward text. I also...
History Today Feed
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
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Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
TheCollector
How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry?
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Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language
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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History?
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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African History...
a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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TheCollector
What Is the History of Thanksgiving?
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Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
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I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict
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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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Open Culture
Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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Wrong Side of...
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Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
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5 Women in Philosophy of Mind You Should Know
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10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
6 months ago
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Classical Wisdom
Aristotle on Luck
Do You Feel Lucky?
a year ago
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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What Was the First Triumvirate?
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6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps
“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that...
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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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Previously Unknown Giorgione Painting Found in Germany
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African History...
The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park...
5 months ago
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
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What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
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Hume on Personal Identity: Who Are We?
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Global Inequality...
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Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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Exploring the Troubles in Belfast and Derry (Monuments & History)
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Trying to Understand...
One Of My Essays In Dutch.
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and...
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I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
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What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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Art Basel 2024 Opens to the Public: Here Are Some of Its Highlights
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6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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Climate Vandal Painted Words in Red Next to a Civil War Exhibit
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5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2023
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.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, drew some new art(Mastodon), finalized a few translations(Mastodon), and released it the project on Itchio!
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What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
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Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
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How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
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Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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The Eiffel Tower: 12 Facts About the Iconic Parisian Landmark
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Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
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The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
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The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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African History...
Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.
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There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies show up in the selection committees of Stockholm.
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What Is the History of Valentine’s Day?
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The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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CrimethInc.
2024: Out of the Frying Pan, into the Fire : The Year in Review
It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead....
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It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead. Here, we review the events of 2024 and our own contributions to the fight for a better world.
A year that began amid genocide in Palestine and war in Ukraine and Sudan is concluding...
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Socrates and the Soul
And the Immortal Soul
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How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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How Magnus Maximus’ Forgotten Son Contributed to the Arthurian Legends
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U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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Who Were the Samaritans?
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Rise of Abraham Lincoln: The Road to the 1860 Election
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10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
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The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
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Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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Top 10 Plays by William Shakespeare
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London Olympics and Tony Blair’s Decision on Parthenon Marbles
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Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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10 Must-Visit Historic Ski Towns in the US
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The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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What Is Pragmatism? (Philosophy, History, Notable Proponents)
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10 Historic Small Towns in Arizona You Must Visit
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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
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“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
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And don't say a word about Europe.
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Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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Carl Jung’s Theory of Archetypes: Major Archetypes, History, Criticism
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Johnny Cash: A Bio of Country Ballads & Boisterous Song
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A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
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Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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Should We Glorify Caesar?
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Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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Mao’s Great Leap Forward & How It Killed Millions
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore)
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Magna Graecia
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Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
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The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a...
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In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...
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What Are Conlangs?
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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A Collection of...
Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis...
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Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis verba fecit… This week we’re taking a brief look, by ACOUP Senate request, at Greek and Phoenician colonization in the ancient Mediterranean. In particular, the focus requested was...
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I...
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My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
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Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays
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Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
a year ago
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
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