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Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a month ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Rabbit Waves and Logbooks. Updated woodstove installation, no windlass with 1 photo, mini dodger and Victoria to Sitka logbook with Week 3...
TheCollector
Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the...
a year ago
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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African History...
a brief note on Africa in 16th century global history.
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
TheCollector
What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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Classical Wisdom
Philosophy and Children
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks Returns!
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The Essential Greeks Returns!
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4 Controversial Films: What Horrifies Movie Critics?
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Overcoming Bias
Hail Jeffrey Wernick
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional...
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I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional markets to make org decisions.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Lost and Found
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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
a year ago
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
Flashbak
London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
“As long as I am alive, I will be a photographer. I will never retire” – Dorothy Bohm Dorothy Bohm...
9 months ago
“As long as I am alive, I will be a photographer. I will never retire” – Dorothy Bohm Dorothy Bohm (22 June 1924 – 15 March 2023) was born Dorothea Israelit in June 1924 in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), to a Jewish German-speaking family. In 1939 she was...
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Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry?
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Get to Know Alma Mahler: Composer, Muse, and Scandalous Woman
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Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Dress Codes?
Are standards elevating or elitist?
a year ago
Are standards elevating or elitist?
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The First Biographers
...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
a year ago
...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
TheCollector
10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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Gods Vs Titans
...and the Origins of the Universe
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...and the Origins of the Universe
TheCollector
A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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Weekend Roundup
Golden Age of Latin Literature
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Golden Age of Latin Literature
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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Who Won the Battle of Stones River?
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A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’?
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Euripides
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
a year ago
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
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Artist Seals Himself in Glass Bottle at Paris Olympic Stadium
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Tattoos in the Bible: Can Christians Modify Their Bodies?
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UNESCO Creates a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news...
a year ago
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:11
6 months ago
Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:11
African History...
a brief note on the intellectual contributions of African scholars in the diaspora
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
8 months ago
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
Classical Wisdom
What is Virtue?
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
Flashbak
This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s...
2 months ago
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s 100 Club. Recently moved to London from Manchester, Constantine knew the scene well, having danced at all-nighters a decade earlier. At first, things seemed different. The crowd...
TheCollector
8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth
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Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On
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Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me...
10 months ago
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
CrimethInc.
How to Organize an Assembly : Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism
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a month ago
There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to solve their problems, suddenly realize that their only hope is to make contact with others like themselves and work together. Perhaps a hurricane has just torn through the state,...
Dreams of Space -...
The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
10 months ago
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
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TheCollector
How to Explore the Galapagos Islands for Its Natural Wonders
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
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Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine...
6 months ago
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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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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Explore Ancient Rome by Visiting These 6 Sites
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African History...
Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus...
a year ago
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
TheCollector
What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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Dreams of Space -...
Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older...
a year ago
Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older children.
From the German Wikipedia site (translated) : "The New Universe is a German children's literature series with themes in the fields of knowledge , research , adventure and...
TheCollector
Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in...
5 months ago
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s. Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found...
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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Flashbak
Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no...
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The Riddler: “Riddle me this! There are three men an a boat with a pack of cigarettes and no matches. How did they manage to smoke?” Robin: “They threw one cigarette overboard and the boat became a cigarette lighter.” – The Question asked in Batman, 1966 The question mark...
TheCollector
7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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CrimethInc.
The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power...
2 weeks ago
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power between various factions with various degrees of support from Russia, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. Over the past few days, however, taking advantage of the ways that Iran...
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Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
JamesHoare
Fri, 12/20/2024 - 09:47
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Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
JamesHoare
Fri, 12/20/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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Remedios Varo: A Female Surrealist Painter Who Isn’t Frida Kahlo
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Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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Trying to Understand...
Honesty: What's In It For Me?
First, do lots of harm.
a year ago
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what...
5 months ago
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what to do
TheCollector
Who Was the Only U.S. President to Serve More Than Two Terms?
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Classical Wisdom
The Essential Greeks
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6 months ago
***Now Enrolling: Starting July 1st, 2024
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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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Global Inequality...
Freedom to be “wrong”: the only real advantage of democracy
Why the liberal project will fail
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Why the liberal project will fail
Classical Wisdom
Socrates' Wayward Student
...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
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...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
African History...
Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom.
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems...
a year ago
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
TheCollector
What Are the Books of the Old Testament? Order & Overview
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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What to See on Vienna’s Long Night of Museums
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Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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What Are the 7 Most Spoken Languages in the World?
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Trying to Understand...
Too Much of Not A Lot
Winning the day and losing the war.
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Winning the day and losing the war.
TheCollector
The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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10 South American Artists You Should Know
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What Is Nestorianism?
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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Collector Chris Levett Is Selling His Huge Trove of Ancient Armor
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Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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Trying to Understand...
Getting Used To Being Weak.
It's worse than you probably imagine.
a year ago
It's worse than you probably imagine.
TheCollector
The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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Hundred Rabbits
North Pacific Logbook
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
over a year ago
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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Venice Plan for Damaged Banksy Mural Concerns Locals
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Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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Classical Wisdom
Does FREE WILL Exist?
And if not, what are the consequences?
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And if not, what are the consequences?
TheCollector
How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy
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5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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Dreams of Space -...
Looking Into Science (1965)
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965...
over a year ago
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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Work Begins on Naples’ New Archaeological Museum
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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How Did the Megali Idea Shape Greece Until the Balkan Wars?
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