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How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
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Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
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10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
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“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time when people are so baffled, so in need of help.” – Käthe Kollwitz diary entry, December 1922 Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) made over 100 self-portraits of her …...
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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Trying to Understand...
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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Summary of changes for October
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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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal.
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How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
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Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
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How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
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Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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Beware the Lides of March
Beware the Lides of March
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Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
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Beware the Lides of March
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Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
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Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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Sparta and… Scotland?
Laconic wit through the centuries
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Laconic wit through the centuries
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What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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Death of the King of Siam
Death of the King of Siam
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Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
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Death of the King of Siam
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Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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internet in paradise
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over a year ago
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef.
Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
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Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
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Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
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The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book. The drug was illegal – still is, of course – and publishing a book on it is risky. But it an effort to produce the...
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What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire?
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Hendrik Verwoerd’s Life & Death: The Architect of Apartheid
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Abstract Expressionist Alfred Leslie Through 7 Paintings
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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The Infancy Gospel of Thomas & the Childhood of Jesus Christ
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Paris of Troy: The Abductor of Helen Who Started the Trojan War
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5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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Who Is Pina Bausch?
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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Summary of changes for July 2023
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Slide Rule, released a little slide rule toy(Mastodon).
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History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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How Did the Seasons Get Their Names?
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Why Aren’t We Happy?
Count no man happy until the end is known
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Count no man happy until the end is known
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Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon...
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Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a child he harboured dreams of becoming a photographer. He roamed around his parents’ home and snapped pictures in his head. He had a talent for it which he thought of turning into a...
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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Jews in the Roman Bathhouse
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Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
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What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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American polarisation: part 2
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UNESCO Creates a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
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Weekend Roundup
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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History as Tragedy?
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A Different View of Thucydides
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A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History?
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
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Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
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Aristotle on Luck
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Xerxes the Great
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Fiction vs Fantasy: What’s the Difference?
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Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis
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Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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Philosophy and Children
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‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull
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“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many inner city areas being bulldozed and instant slums being created on its outskirts. It seemed to have learnt nothing from the mistakes I had fought against during the previous decade...
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Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
How can we train Resilience?
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How can we train Resilience?
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
Aliens and the Enlightenment
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Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
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Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the...
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From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
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The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush
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How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
An experiment with historical simulation
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An experiment with historical simulation
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10 History-Rich But Affordable US Cities You Can Move to
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African History...
a brief note on the history of Africans exploring their own continent
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
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plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in...
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Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
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How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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