A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s...
4 months ago
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
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What Language Did the Ancient Romans Speak?
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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Summary of changes for January 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
10 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added galley refit, updated lifelines, seamed box cushions, and moisture prevention underliner.
Permacomputing, revamped the page.
Flappy Bird,...
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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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We are lost in a haunted wood.
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Catching Nessie on Film
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Catching Nessie on Film
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I...
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Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
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How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal
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7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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What Was Kantai Kessen?
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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How to Celebrate the Love of Learning
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a year ago
Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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Amerigo Vespucci & The Naming of the Americas
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Trying to Understand...
One Of My Essays In Dutch.
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and...
11 months ago
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
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Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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Who Was Julius Caesar?
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Dreams of Space -...
Happy Journeys (1961)
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about...
11 months ago
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about the future and ways someone might travel. The illustration were double page full color paintings of a exciting and strange future that might be around the corner. I see in this...
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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Their Enemies The Russians
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a year ago
But what about the rest of us?
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Louis XIV: History’s Longest-Reigning Monarch
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Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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Dreams of Space -...
Hombres Del Espacio (1960)
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
a year ago
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
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Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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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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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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Aristotle on Luck
Do You Feel Lucky?
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
One I bought fifty years ago.
7 months ago
One I bought fifty years ago.
History Today Feed
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
Global Inequality...
2x2 geopolitics
Wars and ideology simplified
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Wars and ideology simplified
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The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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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...
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“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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Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
3 months ago
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
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J.S. Bach’s Life and Travels in Germany
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Who Was Susan Sontag?
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great...
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“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” —Duane Michals Through image sequences, framing, multiple exposures,...
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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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Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a...
9 months ago
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
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5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington
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The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV...
10 months ago
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
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A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
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7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
a month ago
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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On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
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Vatican Museums Open Ancient Roman Necropolis
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What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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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...
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On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what to do
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Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor
The Life and Work of Pheidias
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The Life and Work of Pheidias
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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10 Films for Photography Enthusiasts
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Beware the Lides of March
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Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
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Beware the Lides of March
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Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
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Ed Ruscha’s Artists’ Books: An Innovative Approach
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Trying to Understand...
The Threat of Back to Normal
Global power has always been distributed.
a year ago
Global power has always been distributed.
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Art of the Etruscans
Romans before the Romans
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Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
8 months ago
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
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Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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Tate Modern Reopens Its 10th Floor Viewing Platform
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Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
6 months ago
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
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How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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7 Famous Surrealist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Here’s How AI Completed Keith Haring’s Work
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Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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Who Won the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House?
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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How Can We Love Ourselves?
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
10 months ago
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
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JamesHoare
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August
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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
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5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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Who Was Averroes?
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Trying to Understand...
A Fistful of Clockwork Oranges
What's it going to be, then?
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What's it going to be, then?
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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Empedocles
The Philosopher God?
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State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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Hundred Rabbits
where is the turtle farm
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the...
over a year ago
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the market, or of the company to be found here, but just of having that same view every morning. We love this city, but when it's time to go, it's time to go!
We left our mooring at...
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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Open Culture
Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019
It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not...
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It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not that it isn’t true for some of them, who tend to relegate themselves to smaller subgenres: consult Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music for a map of the sonic territory.) And it’s...
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9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
j.hoare
Mon, 11/27/2023 - 12:04
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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Mon, 11/27/2023 - 12:04
TheCollector
Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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Res Obscura
Margaret Mead, Technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide
The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
a year ago
The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
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Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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Medieval Muslims loved their cats so much
Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
a year ago
Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
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Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works
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6 Things You Should Know about Sculptor Augusta Savage
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How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the...
7 months ago
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In Your Face. Like Mark...
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How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
4 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
Hakum, added two drawings to the...
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What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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Will There Be “Crazy” People?
Symposium on the Seas...
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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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Aristotle's Politics
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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Summary of changes for June 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
5 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Ketchikan, Snug Cove, Ratz Harbor, Frosty Bay, Berg Bay, Wrangell, Petersburg and Ruth Island Cove. Updated library.
Oekaki, optimized and...
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Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist...
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Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
Classical Wisdom
Why Aren’t We Happy?
Count no man happy until the end is known
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Count no man happy until the end is known
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and...
6 months ago
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and brew beer, the place has been sanctuary to immigrants for centuries and is now home to a large Bangladeshi community. In the 17th century, French Huguenots arrived and brought with...
History Today Feed
‘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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Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:16
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Pera Palace: The Istanbul Muse for Literary Giants
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Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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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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Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Tokyo
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
Starting Tomorrow
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Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many
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African History...
The General History of Africa
a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
8 months ago
a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
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Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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Living through another great transformation…
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4 months ago
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes...
2 months ago
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes Stephen Harmon, a retired lawyer who first lived on New York City’s West End Avenue and 73rd street. “I am a photographer and set out to preserve it on film because I knew the...
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No Way Out
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
a year ago
Some of the world's problems have no solution.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January
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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Continue Reading
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter...
6 months ago
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
Dreams of Space -...
Undersea Base (1974)
So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea...
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So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also...
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5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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Dr Paul Cartledge on Alexander the Great’s Tomb, Netflix & More
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How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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Should We Own Stuff?
The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
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NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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12 Most Important Art Techniques of Modern Times
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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Patterns in Humanity
Demographics and American Homicides
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
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Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav...
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Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
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Into the Waste Land
Nothing connects.
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The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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The Night of the Long Knives: How the Nazis Purged the SA
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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Do you need to be Good to be a Good leader?
is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
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is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
TheCollector
Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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Dreams of Space -...
Dream to Meet(1958)
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded...
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A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
Lyapunov, B. Illustrated by Seleznev, E. Навстречу Мечте (Dream to Meet.)
Moscow: All-Union Educational Pedagogical...
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the...
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Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
African History...
a brief note on the Intellectual history of Africa
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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Self-representation in African art: the wall paintings of medieval Nubia. (ca. 700-1400)
an African portrait of an African society
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an African portrait of an African society
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Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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A Strange Defeat.
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A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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Trying to Understand...
How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally?
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Here are a few modest ideas.
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6 Micronations You Should Know
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Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
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Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
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A Colossal Ramses II Statue Pieces Uncovered
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Aristotle on Knowledge, Truth, and Error (6 Arguments)
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Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
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On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched high above the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, France. The wedding of two members of the Franco-Czechoslovakian (Diables Blancs) White Devils Company was overseen by Father Robert...
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Capoeira’s Incredible Roots: Brazil’s Unique Art Form
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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
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England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
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Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
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The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
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A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
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The Life of Terence
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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Hume on Personal Identity: Who Are We?
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The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush
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10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time
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Beyond Mars (1960)
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
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Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps in space including: solar sailing, travel to Saturn via long distance trips to the outer solar system, multi-year hibernation travel, hydroponics, and visiting other solar...
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Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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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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A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
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We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
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How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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New York City In The 1960s – A Photographer’s Love story
For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that...
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For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that I love – New York City,” she says. ” On a good day, I move with the rhythms of the city and feel connected to its soul, spirit and people. The camera is the tool that allows me …...
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Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world.
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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5 Victorian Fashion Trends: From Flammable Skirts to Poisonous Fabrics
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica
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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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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, added 100r logo to splash screen on the rom.
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The Past Is Another Country.
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A book review from the future.
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What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire?
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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What Is the History of the Blues?
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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Fate and Free Will
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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Res Obscura
Kikkuli!
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
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Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist
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New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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What Is Marcel Duchamp’s Most Famous Painting?
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