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Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
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What Are Djinn? (Powers, Tales, & Etymology)
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How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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10 Historic Towns Near New York City to Visit
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Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
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Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
weird medieval guys
No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
So who does?
a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Canada?
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Why Did Ukraine Make Stamps of Banksy’s Art?
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African History...
The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the...
a year ago
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
African History...
A history of the Rozvi kingdom (1680-1830)
From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
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From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
Part One, anyway. More next week.
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Part One, anyway. More next week.
TheCollector
Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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Ancient Podcasts
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
Another of my essays in French.
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The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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Rules, Rules Rules
Because that's all they can do.
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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The “Arch”: Who Was Desmond Tutu?
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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Dreams of Space -...
World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It...
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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Final Call
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The Tragedy of Ajax
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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5 Victorian Fashion Trends: From Flammable Skirts to Poisonous Fabrics
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Albert Speer: Architect, Minister, and Hitler’s Closest Friend
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10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Follow Silly Laws?
And what happens when we don’t?
a year ago
And what happens when we don’t?
TheCollector
The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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7 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there...
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After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there are not a lot of illustrations of space flight this book was very important to me at the time. I remember finding it in the school library and then getting my own paperback copy...
TheCollector
Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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Trying to Understand...
What's Left ... And What's Left?
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
a year ago
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
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Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays
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TheCollector
Prometheus: The Titan Who Defied Zeus and Created Humanity
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Flashbak
The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is”...
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“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is” – Langston Hughes, The Sweet Flypaper of Life The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955), a collaboration between photographer Roy DeCarava and poet Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 –...
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
4 months ago
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
Dreams of Space -...
A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
4 months ago
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do.
A Visit to the New York World's Fair was the official World's Fair...
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments)
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Wrong Side of...
The case for a Global Sanctuary City
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What if the Syrians can’t return home?
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Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican
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Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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A Collection of...
Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
2 months ago
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
Flashbak
Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black...
2 months ago
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
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Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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A History Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro
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Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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Honesty: What's In It For Me?
First, do lots of harm.
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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Classical Wisdom
[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
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Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
TheCollector
Cotton & How It Changed the World
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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Flashbak
Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
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In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
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What Was Kristallnacht? The Horrors of the Night of Broken Glass
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History Today Feed
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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TheCollector
The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and...
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Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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Classical Wisdom
Eternal Glory
Homer and Kleos
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What is the “Mind”?
And How Do We Learn?
a year ago
TheCollector
What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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Trying to Understand...
The Year's Midnight.
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
over a year ago
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
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Flashbak
The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of...
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What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox...
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This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome, running from the late fourth through the first century BCE, a period that, relevant for today’s discussion, covers the Middle and...
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An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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How Did the Megali Idea Shape Greece Until the Balkan Wars?
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Res Obscura
Why did clothing become boring?
An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like...
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An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like when they didn't
Classical Wisdom
What is Plagiarism?
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
12 months ago
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
TheCollector
How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you...
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10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Prometheus and AI?
2 months ago
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London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra...
4 months ago
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra pay For sitting on their arse all day! – London Underground by The Amateur Transplants Peter Marshall shows us pictures of stations on the London Underground, Docklands light...
Trying to Understand...
In the Shallows Of The Deep State.
But is there anything there?
3 weeks ago
But is there anything there?
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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Dr Alun Withey
The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
a year ago
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
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What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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10 U.S. Retirement Destinations for History Lovers
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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TheCollector
10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
TheCollector
The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:16
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‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:16
TheCollector
What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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9 months ago
Global Inequality...
The third framing
Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
3 months ago
Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
Classical Wisdom
Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
7 months ago
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
TheCollector
Guimarães: 9 Historic Sites in Portugal’s Cradle City
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Classical Wisdom
Herodotus Versus Thucydides?
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
a year ago
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Atomists
The Origins of Oppenheimer?
a year ago
The Origins of Oppenheimer?
TheCollector
Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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Interview with Dr. Mark Solms on Freud & Surrealism
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