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The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam
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What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature?
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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The complete history of Kano (999-1903)
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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Artists Expressed Concerns on Banning TikTok in the U.S.
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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Dreams of Space -...
World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
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A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
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Principality of Sealand: The Smallest Nation in the World?
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What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism
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When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground...
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Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
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Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
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This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIa: How a Legion Fights
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This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander and the Roman legions. Last time, we looked at the Hellenistic army as a complete system, incorporating...
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When Was the First Crusade?
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How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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African History...
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plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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What Is Appropriation in Art?
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Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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Calling Time on BC and AD
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Calling Time on BC and AD
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIb: Pyrrhus
This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
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This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the performance of the Roman army and its legions in the third and second century BC against the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we sought to assess some of...
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How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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Who Was George Eliot?
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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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Who Is the Father of Pentecostalism?
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Who Were the 43 Group?
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Rituals and Religion
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6 Things You Should Know About Pop Art
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
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British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
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Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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Hundred Rabbits
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
TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal.
Left, added a...
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum
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doldrumming
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
over a year ago
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
a year ago
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
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Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
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Freak Shows: The Truth Behind Beauty and the Beast
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Wrong Side of...
Inside the Catholic State
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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UN Committee Votes Against “At Risk” Designation for Stonehenge
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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Why Socrates Matters
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Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
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The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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A Video Interview with Luis Royo: TheCollector Chats with Fantasy Artist
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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Dreams of Space -...
Yuri's Night is April 12th!
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri...
a year ago
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri Gagarin 1st manned flight into space in Vostok 1, which completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. So this book is also from 1961 suggesting that children should dream of this...
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
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Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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Aristotle's Poetics
The Science of Art
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How to Revive Wassailing
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Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
Classical Wisdom
Emotions: Better Out or In?
Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
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Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician....
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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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Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
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To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
Hidden History
The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at...
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In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at Kirtland Air Force Base just outside of Albuquerque NM. In January 1950, President Harry Truman announced that the United States would begin a crash program to develop and deploy a weapon...
Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Denmark
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
4 months ago
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller...
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An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller description:
Friedrick Mader, "the German Jules Verne" according to Sam Moskowitz, was a popular author of fantastic romances in post-World War One Germany. DISTANT WORLDS is his only novel...
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Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he...
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Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
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Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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Death of a Samurai Legend
Death of a Samurai Legend
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
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Death of a Samurai Legend
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Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
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Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
“Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’...
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“Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’ received by George King from space, 1954 On May 8th 1954, London taxi driver George King was doing the household chores when he heard a voice. What came to be known as “The Command”...
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What Is Russian Futurism?
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What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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African History...
Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
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Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
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Does Marcus Matter?
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Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini: A Friendship Ruined by Ghosts
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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How important are dreams?
Should we pay attention to them?
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Should we pay attention to them?
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Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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African History...
Kingdoms at the forest's edge: a history of Mangbetu (ca. 1750-1895)
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has...
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The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has a long and complex history shaped by its internal cultural developments and its unique ecology between the savannah and the forest. Among the most remarkable states that emerged in...
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10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Weekend Roundup
The Best of the Best
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11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
The Women who Forged Medieval England
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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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Modernism vs. Postmodernism: Two Genres Explained in 6 Facts and 13 Artworks
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rainy with a chance of mosquitoes
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign...
over a year ago
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign and just as wild, except instead of hungry lizards there are mosquitoes, also known as the vampires of the Marquesas.
Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
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10 Must-See Exhibitions in Europe This Year (2025)
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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Res Obscura
Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
Some lessons from history and archaeology
a year ago
Some lessons from history and archaeology
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Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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Slavoj Zizek on the 2 Types of Violence
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
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The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
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