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over a year ago
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‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
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A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
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In Defence of Boring Books
In Defence of Boring Books
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Odysseus in the Underworld
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
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I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
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Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won?
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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What Is First Corinthians About?
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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What Is Populism?
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
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The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
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Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a pleasant science fiction novel for kids about an alien boy who is left behind on Earth. He makes friends with the locals and learns about dogs, baseball, and the life of children on...
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
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10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
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Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older children.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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Why Do Religions Decline?
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When Was the First Crusade?
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What Was the First Written Language?
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The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
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A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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Ming Dynasty Artefacts Found in South China Shipwreck
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
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Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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