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Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
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Hundred Rabbits
Working offgrid efficiently
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the...
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Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the limits of our space, and at first, it was difficult to create new things, as we had to make time to learn how to solve underlying problems. Our boat was not just an office, it was...
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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...
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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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“I Have a Dream”: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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ICYMI: Emperors, Conquerors and Saints
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 weeks ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain...
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In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain a loser At break of day I say goodnight When I lie down I have a great fear Of falling. – Ballade du concours de Blois by François Villon … Continue reading "Strange And...
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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The Enigmatic Archeology of Chichen Itza: A World Wonder
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Patterns in Humanity
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The 21st Amendment: The Only Amendment That Repealed Another
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What Was Operation Downfall?
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Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
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British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
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Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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Denim: The Fabric That Built America
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the...
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From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
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Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
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Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people...
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Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
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What’s the History of the Rugby World Cup?
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
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A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to take advantage of the excitement about this launch. So they had to include a booklet to explain why this slightly inaccurate model was so special. Imagine opening the model kit...
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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he...
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Jim Laspesa, musician and rock archivist has shared sharing some photos on his Facebook page that he first spotted at a swap meet in Pasadena, California. We don’t know who took these photographs of David Bowie backstage, James Brown meeting and greeting the fans and many other...
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Louis XIV: History’s Longest-Reigning Monarch
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10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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UN Committee Votes Against “At Risk” Designation for Stonehenge
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the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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What Is the History of the Hudson’s Bay Company?
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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Death of a Samurai Legend
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Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
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Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized?
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Hundred Rabbits
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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 March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
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Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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Flashbak
Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city...
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A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city before there was a Selfridges or Harvey Nichols, and no Bullring as we know it today. Birmingham was a place of subway shops and underground passages that are now filled in and...
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Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts
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Wrong Side of...
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What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off...
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On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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Christie’s Presents Two Latin American Art Sales, Starting Friday
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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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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific...
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In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
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How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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Who Was Vernon Lee?
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Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of Asia
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plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
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How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
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Hidden History
The Last Day of World War One
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
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At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
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What Are the Romance Languages?
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Open Culture
When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public...
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Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
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Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
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Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
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London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra...
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Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra pay For sitting on their arse all day! – London Underground by The Amateur Transplants Peter Marshall shows us pictures of stations on the London Underground, Docklands light...
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
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To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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Trying to Understand...
It's War, Josep, But Not As We Know It
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over a year ago
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
TheCollector
How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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We are lost in a haunted wood.
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We are lost in a haunted wood.
TheCollector
Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism
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Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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Overcoming Bias
Who You Are Vs. What You Control
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other...
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If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
TheCollector
How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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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
TheCollector
What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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Dreams of Space -...
Satellites As A Hobby (1962)
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and...
a year ago
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and created a space map in 1958 (see Sept 8, 2011 blog post). They reused these illustration in several publication which may explain why they seem a little "dated" for 1962. This book...
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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Classical Wisdom
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Early Christianity
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TheCollector
Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox...
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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...
TheCollector
Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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Louis Wain’s Cat Paintings Head to Auction
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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TheCollector
Italian Police Thwart “Tomb Raiders” at Etruscan Burial Site
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
7 months ago
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
TheCollector
Why Did Ukraine Make Stamps of Banksy’s Art?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
a year ago
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
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Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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Shocking Scandals: 10 of the Most Controversial US Elections
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Classical Wisdom
Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
Or does war have its virtues?
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Or does war have its virtues?
TheCollector
What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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The World’s Most Prestigious Art Fairs (By Continent/Region)
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Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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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...
a year ago
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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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
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“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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10 Historic Towns in Nevada Worth Visiting
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The Orixás of Candomblé: Who Is Your Tutelary Spirit?
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
8 months ago
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi, a Thai folding book that opens from top to bottom. It was made in the 19th century in central Siam (now Thailand) by an unknown artist. Such folding books were typically made from...
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Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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Dr Alun Withey
How Much?! Barbers & the Price of Shaving.
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and,...
over a year ago
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
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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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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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Aristotle on Friendship
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Who Were the Most Important Disciples of Jesus Christ?
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Trying to Understand...
Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
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Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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Lucian Freud Nude to Make $20 Million Auction Debut
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History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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Who was Rasputin and Why is He Famous?
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Overcoming Bias
Betrayed By Culture
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Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
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5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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Res Obscura
Post-postal
What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington
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The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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A Few Spots Left
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
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The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
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5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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Who Is the Archangel Gabriel?
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Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
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Hundred Rabbits
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...
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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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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The Value of Wills to Historians
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
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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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The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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David Roberts & Frederick Catherwood: Artists of Ancient Egypt & Maya
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over a year ago
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
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In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
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Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
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The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites
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Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
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Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death?
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What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses
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Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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Rijksmuseum Begins Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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10 Must-See Exhibitions in Europe This Year (2025)
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Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ Targeted Again After Protestors Jailed
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Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
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99-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Sings & Dances in a Touching New Coldplay Video, Directed by Spike Jonze
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There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music video, Mr. Van Dyke dances barefoot and sings knowingly a little off-key—before reflecting on a century of life on this planet. What is love? Is he afraid of dying? What does luck...
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide in the United States: a summary
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Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
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The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know
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5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Kent
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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Yayoi Kusama Unveils New Public Sculpture in London
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Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US
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Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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the promise of pancakes
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over a year ago
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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When Was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
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The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
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First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text book made from tempera and gold leaf on parchment. Shelf marked Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 0457, the work is a Latin translation of Avicenna’s Canon medicinae, one of...
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What Was the Third Council of Constantinople?
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
“I approached my subjects with a sense of urgency. I believed that my world, as I knew it, was...
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Coach Rusty’s Art Goes Interactive With Top Tier Authentics
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
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From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
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What is Objectivism? Ayn Rand’s Philosophy
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Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an...
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This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
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Germanus of Auxerre and His Connection to Arthurian Legends
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Art of the Etruscans
Romans before the Romans
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5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature?
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What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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Who are the Pioneers of the Beat Generation?
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British Museum to Digitalize Its Collection
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James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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Journal of African cities chapter 6
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History Today Review of the Year
History Today Review of the Year
j.hoare
Thu, 12/28/2023 - 00:00
12 months ago
History Today Review of the Year
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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What Is First Corinthians About?
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10 Must-See Pirate Fortresses and Coastal Strongholds Around the World
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What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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African History...
Kingdoms at the forest's edge: a history of Mangbetu (ca. 1750-1895)
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has...
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The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has a long and complex history shaped by its internal cultural developments and its unique ecology between the savannah and the forest. Among the most remarkable states that emerged in...
Dreams of Space -...
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...
Classical Wisdom
Should We Be Skeptics?
Is it good to question everything?
8 months ago
Is it good to question everything?
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René Descartes’ Legacy: The Persistence of Mind-Body Dualism
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
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Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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Patterns in Humanity
Does poverty cause violent crime?
An examination of the association between poverty and violent crime
7 months ago
An examination of the association between poverty and violent crime
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