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Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
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In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know
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8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, added image maps, animation controls, and wrote a guide....
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
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London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
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Will The West Eat Itself?
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
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Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
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This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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On the Tory Cult of Personality and its Consequences
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
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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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4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
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The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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Julius Caesar: From General to Dictator (Bio, Battles, & Death)
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Ancient Olympics
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Should We Be Skeptics?
Is it good to question everything?
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Is it good to question everything?
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World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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Capoeira’s Incredible Roots: Brazil’s Unique Art Form
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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10 Must-See Historic Landmarks in Florida
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Who Was Frantz Fanon?
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
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Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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How Does Mona Hatoum Turn Ordinary Objects into Artworks?
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10 Must-See Exhibitions in Europe This Year (2025)
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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Modernism: The Genre Explained in 5 Facts and 14 Artworks
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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Hunter S Thompson Sets Fire To His Christmas Tree (1990)
“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller...
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“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller before the writer torched his Christmas Tree In January 1990, Sam Allis was on assignment for TIME magazine at writer Hunter S. Thompson’s (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) home...
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical...
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In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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Trying to Understand...
People, States and Borders.
And other dubious ideas.
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Andrei Molodkin Holds Art Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life
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Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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Stock Car Racing in 1972
In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in...
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In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1972, women only raced each other, hair was grown out crewcuts slicked and draped, and TV-led big business had yet to move in....
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
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Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
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Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
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Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works
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Trying to Understand...
Will it Bend or Will it Break?
The international system, that is.
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The international system, that is.
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What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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Anarcho-Capitalism Explained in 5 Steps
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What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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How Can We Love Ourselves?
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Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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The Birth of Ovid
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Sun, 03/24/2024 - 00:00
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Sun, 03/24/2024 - 00:00
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The Year's Midnight.
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Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
TheCollector
Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
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So Where Do We Go From Here?
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Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who...
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These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who spent 32 years as a patient of the Hospital for Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders in Branice, Poland. Admitted to the hospital’s Psychopathological Art Expression workshop in...
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Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
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What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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Dreams of Space -...
Space Witch (1959)
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
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Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
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The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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Latest Pompeii Discovery is a Rare Blue Room
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UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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Patterns in Humanity
Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid...
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Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid advancements in science and technology happening in the 1400s. With improvements in cartography, ship and other maritime technology, and an increased desire to understand and discover...
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Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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6 Outrageous Whaling Stories
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What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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Classical Wisdom
Why are MYTHS Important?
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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Who Is the Archangel Michael? Analyzing an Angel
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Artists Expressed Concerns on Banning TikTok in the U.S.
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Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover
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Patterns in Humanity
When Lightning Strikes... Literally
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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The Life of Aristotle
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Wrong Side of...
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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Tjaart’s Substack
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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7 Museums to Visit in Athens
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V),...
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This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
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The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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Flashbak
The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
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The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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Hundred Rabbits
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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 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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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
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Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
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Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language
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The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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What is Digital Art? A Brief History and Tips for Collecting
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How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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Flashbak
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...
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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...
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7 of the Most Popular Hats in History
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Overcoming Bias
Capitalism, Govt Causes Culture Woes?
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Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
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Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
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Paris Announces Notre Dame Reopening Plus Potential Entry Fee
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Who Were the Disciples James, John and Andrew?
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What Is the Single Most Valuable Artwork in the World?
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Was David Gulpilil Australia’s Most Important Actor?
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weird medieval guys
An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns
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Classical Wisdom
The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism
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Heraclitus against Parmenides
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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How Did German Expressionism Shape Film Noir?
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Overcoming Bias
Who You Are Vs. What You Control
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other...
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If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
African History...
Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.
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Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name?
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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Elton John Collection Goes on Sale After 21 Years
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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The (history of) spice must flow
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What Was Négritude?
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When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive...
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Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive that speaks of her talent as a street and press photographer, writer and collector, most notably of vintage dog photographs which now live at London’s Bishopsgate Institute. “Mine...
Classical Wisdom
How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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Wed, 08/07/2024 - 09:01
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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Three Early Basquiats to Sell at Phillips This Spring
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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The Fall of a Republic
Cato and Caesar
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Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
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4 Villains From the Arthurian Legends Who Really Existed
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7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
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Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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Classical Wisdom
Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like?
I Dare You...
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
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What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids?
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Open Culture
The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Denmark
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
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Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
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New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
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Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
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5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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African History...
**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history
plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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A Collection of...
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Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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a brief note on the African exploration of Asia
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plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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Macron is Safe for the Moment
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Dreams of Space -...
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How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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Top Five Painters To Watch in 2024
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Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant
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Global Inequality...
The end and the beginning of history
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First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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Hundred Rabbits
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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 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).
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
On cartography as historical argument
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Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
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The Philosophy of Time: Study the Nature of Past, Present, and Future
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Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
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“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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Toxic Walls: Why Was Victorian Green Wallpaper So Deadly?
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It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies, according to an authoritative study by Eugenia Herbert.
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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Hume on Personal Identity: Who Are We?
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How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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What Is the History and Significance of May Day?
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A Brief History of Chile
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Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
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The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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Why Are There Two Virginias?
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review
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Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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African History...
The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone...
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The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone monuments in Africa south of Nubia.
Trying to Understand...
Games Nations Play.
But they forget the people and the Street.
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But they forget the people and the Street.
Trying to Understand...
The Past Is Another Country.
A book review from the future.
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Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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Dolly Wilde: The Tragic Story of Oscar Wilde’s Niece
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When Was the Era of Japan’s Bakufu?
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Malta & Its Role in World War II: A Crucial Fortress Island
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9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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Silvio Berlusconi’s Worthless Art Collection
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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain...
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In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain a loser At break of day I say goodnight When I lie down I have a great fear Of falling. – Ballade du concours de Blois by François Villon … Continue reading "Strange And...
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10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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