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Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
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The Myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Great Flood in Greek Mythology
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5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
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The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
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Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
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10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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China’s Communist Comic Books
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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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Space Ship to the Moon (1952)
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Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally?
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Here are a few modest ideas.
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
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Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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Oskar Schindler: The Business Tycoon Who Became a Hero
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Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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Was Vincent van Gogh Religious?
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The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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Virgil and the Aeneid
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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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Who Was Julian?
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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The Revolt of the Outer Party.
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Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
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Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
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What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
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In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A member of the Reflex photography group, led by documentarian Diane Bush, a young American established documentary photographer, Portus wanted to show the everyday things people...
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You And Whose Army?
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
a year ago
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
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William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
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“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
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Marina Abramović Leads 7-Minute Silence at Glastonbury Festival
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Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
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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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9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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In Search of Homer Trip Opening
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In Search of Homer Trip Opening
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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What Is Capoeira?
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Overcoming Bias
What Priority The Innocent?
It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
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It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
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Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
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‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
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Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
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Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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8 Unmissable UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia
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The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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What Is the Gospel of Truth?
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Overcoming Bias
Hail Jeffrey Wernick
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional...
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I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional markets to make org decisions.
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9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
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The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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The Historically Accurate Greek Armors of Dimitrios Katsikis (Interview)
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Open Culture
The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford...
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation...
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Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
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The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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African History...
An episode of Naval warfare on the East African coast: the Sakalava invasions of 1792-1817
Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
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Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
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The 7 Best Historical Sites in Bangkok, Thailand
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Who Were the Landsknechts?
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army
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How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
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Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
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How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
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What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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Democracy
The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
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The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
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The Future of US Elections: Potential Changes and Emerging Issues
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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Weekend Roundup
Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
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The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae
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Trying to Understand...
Their Enemies The Russians
But what about the rest of us?
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But what about the rest of us?
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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10 Small but Historic Countries You Didn’t Know About
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Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
Which Playwright did it better?
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Which Playwright did it better?
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How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
3 months ago
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
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5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free
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Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an...
a year ago
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
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Buckingham Palace To Exhibit Unseen Renaissance Drawings
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What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground...
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Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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Weekend Roundup
Olympics Special
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Summary of changes for August
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
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What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and...
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László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
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German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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Wrong Side of...
Inside the Catholic State
The world that created Caravaggio
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The world that created Caravaggio
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
Hidden History
Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
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(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one of the most consequential US elections in modern history.) The story of a Pennsylvania Dutch classic dessert is as colorful as its unusual name… In 1517, Martin Luther began a...
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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African History...
A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899)
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
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State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
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The Anat Ebgi Gallery Expands to Tribeca
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What Is a Banana Republic?
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Summary of changes for August 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
4 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added new pages: Sointula, Johnstone Strait anchorages, and Central coast anchorages. Updated existing pages: added Yuculta and Dent rapids with...
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5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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Open Culture
How Leonardo da Vinci Painted The Last Supper: A Deep Dive Into a Masterpiece
When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work....
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When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work. Not that he’d been idle: in that same era, while working for the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, he “developed, organized, and directed productions for festival pageants, triumphal...
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Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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Historic Copenhagen Stock Exchange Catches Fire
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Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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Res Obscura
The most interesting things I read in 2023
Most of them are not from 2023
a year ago
Most of them are not from 2023
Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
2 months ago
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various times by Morris, John Prine, and Marianne Faithfull.
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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Weekend Roundup
Does Marcus Matter?
11 months ago
Open Culture
Bob Dylan Reads “ ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” On His Holiday Radio Show (2006)
Allow me to name just a few of the people I want to hear hosting and curating radio shows—former Sex...
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Allow me to name just a few of the people I want to hear hosting and curating radio shows—former Sex Pistols’ singer John Lydon, former Clash frontman Joe Strummer, former Woody Guthrie impersonator Bob Dylan.… Luckily for me, this ain’t just fantasy baseball; at various times,...
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What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s...
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Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s mix of fashion, art, and music at clubs like Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager’s Studio 54 and Howard Stein and Peppo Vanini’s Xenon, where nightlife and performance met. Distribution...
Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
a year ago
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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10 Curious Facts About Johnny Cash
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The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
7 months ago
‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/27/2024 - 07:00
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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Patterns in Humanity
Global crime
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
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How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
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Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the...
5 months ago
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the 1960s and 1970s you’ve seen his work on movie posters and magazine covers. Born in Rome, Putzu studied at the Rome Academy and discovered a love of portrait painting. After...
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Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye
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