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Here is a straight history book of an current...
a year ago
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current (at the time) and wonderful event in global communication. We has lost track of how satellites have changed our lives and made the earth a smaller place. It is a little dull in...
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The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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What Turned the Tide in the Battle of the Atlantic?
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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How to Give a Speech
Secrets from Cicero
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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The Mystery of Morpheus
Who is the God of Dreams?
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Who is the God of Dreams?
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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Why Is Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?
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The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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Weekend Roundup
Celebrate Cicero!
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
a year ago
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
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The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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7 Depictions of War by Famous Artists Everyone Should Know
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10 Historic Cities for Expats Around the World
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Trying to Understand...
Honesty: What's In It For Me?
First, do lots of harm.
a year ago
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Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
6 months ago
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
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Who Were the Landsknechts?
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Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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J.S. Bach’s Life and Travels in Germany
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many
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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.
Flappy Bird,...
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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How Can We Prevent Character Assassination?
Corruption in the Ancient World
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Corruption in the Ancient World
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
8 months ago
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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Mao’s Great Leap Forward & How It Killed Millions
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Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched...
6 months ago
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched high above the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, France. The wedding of two members of the Franco-Czechoslovakian (Diables Blancs) White Devils Company was overseen by Father Robert...
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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Mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait Sells for $32 Million
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What Would a Day in the Public Baths of Ancient Rome Look Like?
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Silvio Berlusconi’s Worthless Art Collection
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a year ago
African History...
a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
a year ago
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
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11 Amazing Rooms & Artworks in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj
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Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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12 Most Important Art Techniques of Modern Times
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How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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The Inuit and the Canadian Arctic: A Brief History
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Weekend Roundup
Golden Age of Latin Literature
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Golden Age of Latin Literature
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Poland Nixes Planned Venice Biennale Pavilion
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Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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How Leonardo da Vinci Painted The Last Supper: A Deep Dive Into a Masterpiece
When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work....
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When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work. Not that he’d been idle: in that same era, while working for the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, he “developed, organized, and directed productions for festival pageants, triumphal...
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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What Are the Challenges of Creating ‘True Crime’ Stories?
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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Dreams of Space -...
What the Moon Is Like (1963)
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
over a year ago
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again.
What the Moon is Like is another book by the children's science writer Franklyn Branley. He wrote many children's non-fiction books with a variety of...
Trying to Understand...
The Revolt of the Outer Party.
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
9 months ago
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
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Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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2 months ago
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Summary of changes for December 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2 days ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, updated the documentation for our various projects.
Left, added support for unicode input(Mastodon).
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Air to Ground...
Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there...
11 months ago
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
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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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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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Malta & Its Role in World War II: A Crucial Fortress Island
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FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind....
3 weeks ago
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
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Rise of Abraham Lincoln: The Road to the 1860 Election
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Summary of changes for October
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
uxn,...
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5 Timeless Financial Tips from Greek and Roman Philosophers
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Who Was Julius Caesar?
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Will There Be “Crazy” People?
Symposium on the Seas...
11 months ago
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5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
Should you meet your heroes?
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Should you meet your heroes?
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Musée Rodin to Launch Shanghai Outpost in September
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Who is Ana Mendieta? An Icon of Environmental Art
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African History...
When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
a year ago
*my article for New Lines Magazine
Wrong Side of...
Hearing the language of Christ on the road to Damascus
Notes on Christian Syria
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Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From?
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New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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African History...
Seafaring, trade and travel in the African Atlantic. ca. 1100-1900.
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
a year ago
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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Weekend Roundup
The Best of the Best
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The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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Italian vs. Northern Renaissance Art: What’s the Difference?
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Catching Nessie on Film
Catching Nessie on Film
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
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Catching Nessie on Film
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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8 months ago
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Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
11 months ago
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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Summary of changes for March
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r, released a guide to diesel Engine Care.
Wunderland Rabbits,...
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10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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