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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
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Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
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The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone,...
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“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter ...
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always...
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“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always been around, for those born now, computers, the internet and mobile phones are just stuff – in fact, it would be impossible for recent generations to imagine a world without these...
Trying to Understand...
The Machine Stops.
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And fiddling won't fix it.
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Ancien Régime France: 4 Harsh Realities of Life Before the Revolution
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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Overcoming Bias
Arntz-Gray & I Talk Feminism
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Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
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10 months ago
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
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How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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Flashbak
Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
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In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
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What Was the Mason-Dixon Line?
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American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles...
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Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
Dreams of Space -...
Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the...
a year ago
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the space race but they did have a clear plan laid out for creating the engineers they might need. The school library was usually full of these career books to inspire academic...
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Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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10 Incredible Artworks by Félicien Rops
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Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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Who Is Pina Bausch?
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Who Were the Kuomintang?
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The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar
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Hundred Rabbits
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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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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African History...
Empire building and Government in the Yorubaland: a history of Oyo (1600-1836)
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
over a year ago
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
over a year ago
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
African History...
a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
10 months ago
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
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The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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Dreams of Space -...
A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
a year ago
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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Patterns in Humanity
The Rise of the West
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people...
a year ago
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people of science, and then I put it in context with other indicators of historical development. The data together show that West Europe had developmentally surpassed the rest of the world...
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What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
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Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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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...
a month ago
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.
Space Witch is a pleasant story about a witch who wants to expand her frightening to creatures on other planets. She constructs a "space broom" and a...
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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The Myth of the Minotaur
Journey Into the Labyrinth
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Journey Into the Labyrinth
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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Flashbak
16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
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Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime thrillers laced with smoky cynicism, femme fatales and amoral ambiguity first produced by Hollywood in the 1940s. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in...
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
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2 months ago
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and Sketches Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877–August 9, 1962) speaks of the search for truth and that sense of escaping into the natural world in this 1920 collection of his pros,...
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The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
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For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the pointy guitar, the hair, the band, the drive, the tights, the most piercing scream outside a Pee Wee Herman meets Cher Christmas convention. And you also had the hair. In the 1980s …...
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8 Famous Books That Helped Economies Thrive With Tourism
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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Three Early Basquiats to Sell at Phillips This Spring
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Hundred Rabbits
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In...
over a year ago
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In 2016, we left Canada, armed with our two iPhones and 2 MacBooks Pros. We didn't know the wattage of any of the devices we owned, and even less about the amount of solar needed to...
African History...
A history of Zanzibar before the Omanis (600-1873)
Journal of African cities chapter 7
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Journal of African cities chapter 7
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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What Is Capoeira?
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9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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Who Were the Maccabees?
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What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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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...
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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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5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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Investors Trying to Acquire Ex San Francisco Art Institute Building
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Who Was Clement of Rome?
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6 Micronations You Should Know
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King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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Trying to Understand...
This Changes Everything!
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Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
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Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
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over a year ago
Some people never grow up.
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Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement
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African History...
On Hegel's ignorance of African History
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*my article for ROAPE journal
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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Spartan Training
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb)...
a year ago
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
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The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might
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Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Ali Ansari
On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
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Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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What is the WORD? How can we understand Logos?
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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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The Rembrandt Painting to Sell For $18.4 M. at Auction
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Flashbak
East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for...
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Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for Disney, for whom he contributed many story sketches and illustrations, not least the nightmarish, eerie and delicate Bald Mountain scenes for the animated movie Fantasia (1940). But...
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5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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Amerigo Vespucci & The Naming of the Americas
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Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible?
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July
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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented the export of .theme files, and theme...
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What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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Hell in the Bible: Eternal Damnation vs. Annihilationism
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Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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A Colossal Ramses II Statue Pieces Uncovered
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Brushing for Britain
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Brushing for Britain
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIa: How a Legion Fights
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second...
10 months ago
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander and the Roman legions. Last time, we looked at the Hellenistic army as a complete system, incorporating...
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Monsters of Mythology
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3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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Who Won the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House?
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U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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