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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
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Dreams of Space -...
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz We’re back looking at teenagers at home and in their bedrooms in the 1980 an 1990s. We’ve been back there before, checking our the snapshot …...
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Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims
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Volksgeist: Who Was Johann Gottfried Herder?
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Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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The Death of Clive of India
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The Death of Clive of India
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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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Art Basel 2024 Opens to the Public: Here Are Some of Its Highlights
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5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2023
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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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Classical Wisdom
The Mystery of Morpheus
Who is the God of Dreams?
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African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
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The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
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The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue
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This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look at how the Roman legions were able to overcome the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and second centuries BC. We have covered the decisive battles in the story, although...
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17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
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In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
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The Art of Pompeii
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Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
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Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
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He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times – Tubthumping by Chumbawumba Pub? Go on, then. Let’s go. And …...
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Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere?
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Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
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a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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Who Were the Toughest Women in the Old West?
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
7 months ago
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
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Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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Musée Rodin to Launch Shanghai Outpost in September
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Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
a year ago
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
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‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
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Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
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‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
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Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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Free French Bombers Over France
Free French Bombers Over France
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
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Free French Bombers Over France
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Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
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Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly?
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How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance?
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How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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More Banksy Animals Appear Across London
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Michelangelo Scribble Sells For $200,000
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came...
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The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
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Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/11/2024 - 07:00
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/11/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
Restoration Reveals Ancient Colors of Egypt’s Edfu Temple
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black...
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Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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British Museum to Digitalize Its Collection
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Jackie Kennedy’s Georgetown Mansion Goes on Sale
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Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo...
11 months ago
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo Compression’, we see people riding the trains. As he writes: “The images create a sense of discomfort as his victims attempt to squirm out of view or simply close their eyes, wishing the...
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Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington...
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“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington on his Living Room project Time to step back inside British homes in the late 1980s with photographer Nick Waplington’s Living Room series. Published as a book in 1991, the...
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A Colossal Ramses II Statue Pieces Uncovered
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
a year ago
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
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A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
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A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician....
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
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Summary of changes for October
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
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The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding. These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
Classical Wisdom
[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
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Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
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How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
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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What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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Weekend Roundup
The Ancient World’s Greatest War
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The Ancient World’s Greatest War
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A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in...
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“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.” ― C.S. Lewis In his 1955 book Surprised by joy : the...
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Explore Ancient Rome by Visiting These 6 Sites
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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...
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Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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Fall of Berlin: How WWII Ended in Europe
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Final Call
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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So They Want Negotiations, Now.
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2023
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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.
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Donsol, added 100r logo to splash screen on the rom.
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Heracles and the Lernaean Hydra: The Hero’s Second Labor
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Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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Beard Fashions and Class
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
over a year ago
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
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5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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African History...
Seafaring, trade and travel in the African Atlantic. ca. 1100-1900.
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
Open Culture
A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
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The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
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