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World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30 inches of rainfall over two days when an unnamed storm collided with Hurricane Helene over the mountains of Southern Appalachia. The resulting catastrophe laid waste to the entire...
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Nasu, released a nasu guide, and updated the look of the icon. We...
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
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What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy
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Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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What Are Djinn? (Powers, Tales, & Etymology)
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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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Anarcho-Capitalism Explained in 5 Steps
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
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“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is” – Langston Hughes, The Sweet Flypaper of Life The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955), a collaboration between photographer Roy DeCarava and poet Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 –...
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to...
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The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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Ancient Marble Floor Restored Underwater in Italy
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Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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What Was Organization Todt?
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Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
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The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
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Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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Uncovering 5 Portraits From the Renaissance
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Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
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Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
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Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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What Is the Origin of Cowpox (& How Did It Cure Smallpox)?
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Universities as factories
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I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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What is Peter Singer’s Principle of Equal Consideration?
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On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human...
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Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human beings, if they care about them at all?
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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What Is Russian Futurism?
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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How Did Socrates Die?
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Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
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“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
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Was Vincent van Gogh Religious?
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The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Should We Own Stuff?
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,”...
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Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the...
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Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
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The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story
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Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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Words and Worlds: Does Language Shape Our Reality?
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Who Won the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House?
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Does Marcus Matter?
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Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
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Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
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What Is a Banana Republic?
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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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Art Basel 2024 Opens to the Public: Here Are Some of Its Highlights
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Ancient Olympics
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Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style
In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a...
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In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a project to document New York City’s rich history of architecture and fashion. Cunningham dressed his friend and fellow photographer Editta Sherman (July 9, 1912 – November 1, 2013)...
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
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Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of the battles of 2017-2020 all over again. But first, in order to understand the scale of what we’re up against, let’s look at how we got here.
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Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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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...
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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...
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Abkhazia’s National Art Gallery Works Destroyed by Fire
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Can Violence Be Justified? A Philosophical Approach
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8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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What Was the Hanseatic League?
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What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Canada?
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3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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Mazes and Labyrinths: An Illustrated History (1922)
“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” –...
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“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” – Philip K. Dick, VALIS William H. Matthews leads us through his 1922 book Mazes and Labyrinths from his home in Ruislip in the English county of Middlesex. Compiled shortly...
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Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition: What is an Active Life?
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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...
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“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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A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam
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Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
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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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Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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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...
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I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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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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What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs
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The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in Syria are not over. Israel has bombed hundreds of locations around the country and seized a considerable amount of land in the southwest, while Turkish proxy forces are threatening...
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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5 Women in Logic You Should Know
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
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Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an...
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A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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