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What Is Pragmatism? (Philosophy, History, Notable Proponents)
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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 month of February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
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10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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Dreams of Space -...
The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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Putting Mothers on Death Row
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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
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A History Lover’s Guide to Tokyo
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The Two Trojan Wars
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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Are Propaganda and Politics Inevitable Bedfellows?
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
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An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
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Which US President Served the Shortest Time in Office?
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire
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6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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Putting Pirates on Trial
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Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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African History...
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Journal of African cities chapter 7
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Journal of African cities chapter 7
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a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
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What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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Dreams of Space -...
A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
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The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
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Spartan Training
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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Global Inequality...
Before the police arrives: Bookstores on Saturdays
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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Flashbak
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
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The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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History Today Feed
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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4 Controversial Films: What Horrifies Movie Critics?
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
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Reforming England’s Divorce Law
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
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England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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Death of a Turkey Legend
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches
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Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav...
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Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
TheCollector
How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Ancient World’s Greatest War
2 months ago
The Ancient World’s Greatest War
TheCollector
Abstract Expressionist Alfred Leslie Through 7 Paintings
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TheCollector
The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
10 months ago
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
Wrong Side of...
Your favourite half-British president
We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
a month ago
We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
African History...
**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history
plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
a year ago
plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
TheCollector
4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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TheCollector
Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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TheCollector
What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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Dreams of Space -...
Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
a year ago
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
TheCollector
5 Most Influential Blues Musicians of All Time
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6 months ago
Flashbak
Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those...
9 months ago
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
TheCollector
9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan
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TheCollector
What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Aristotle on Friendship
a year ago
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Utah Ghost Towns With a Rich History
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TheCollector
5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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TheCollector
8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Classical Wisdom
The Essential Greeks
***Now Enrolling: Starting July 1st, 2024
6 months ago
***Now Enrolling: Starting July 1st, 2024
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Olympics
History of the Games
4 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Nestorianism?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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TheCollector
Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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TheCollector
How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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TheCollector
8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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TheCollector
The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
4 months ago
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
TheCollector
What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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TheCollector
The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Colorado Perfect for Retirement
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TheCollector
How Has the Tower of London Changed Over Time?
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TheCollector
Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Prepare for the Worst?
Without living forever in fear and worry?
5 months ago
Without living forever in fear and worry?
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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TheCollector
Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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2 months ago
African History...
a brief note on new discoveries in African archeology and the stone ruins of Cameroon.
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription...
4 months ago
Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription that describes a trading expedition to an unspecified region called the land of Punt. Egyptologists had long debated about the location of this mysterious territory before recent...
TheCollector
What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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TheCollector
10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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TheCollector
American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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TheCollector
Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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TheCollector
The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide
Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
7 months ago
Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
Flashbak
Watch TV-CBGB – A Punk Sitcom From 1981
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews,...
8 months ago
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews, comedy skits, and live performances”. Stuart Newman, a member of the The Roustabouts, one of the groups featured on the show – along with Idiot Savant, The Hard, Jo Marshall, Shrapnel...
TheCollector
What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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TheCollector
Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
a week ago
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
TheCollector
What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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2 weeks ago
Hundred Rabbits
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...
3 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...
TheCollector
6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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TheCollector
The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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TheCollector
The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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11 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January
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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Left, re-wrote documentation, redesigned the UX for...
TheCollector
6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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weird medieval guys
Why is medieval art so weird?
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran...
a year ago
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
Flashbak
Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
2 months ago
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
TheCollector
Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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TheCollector
Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
They Say They Want Rearmament ....
We-ell, you know ....
a year ago
Flashbak
Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
2 months ago
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
African History...
The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
a year ago
A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
TheCollector
The Great Emu War: When Australians Lost to Flightless Birds
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TheCollector
Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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TheCollector
The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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5 months ago
CrimethInc.
Announcing The Beautiful Idea : A New Podcast
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media...
a week ago
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media platforms on a new podcast, The Beautiful Idea, which will offer reporting and analysis of current events. The first episode of The Beautiful Idea has just been released!
In their own...
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Handle Anxiety?
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
10 months ago
Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
African History...
on the Nubian priests of Rome and the Moors of Spain
When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain...
6 hours ago
When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain and became one of the most celebrated Andalusian poets, he wasn't the first from his region to visit the Moorish kingdom.
TheCollector
Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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TheCollector
Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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8 months ago
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...
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.
Summary Of Changes
TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal.
Left, added a...
History Today Feed
Who was Thorkell the Tall?
Who was Thorkell the Tall?
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/27/2024 - 10:20
3 weeks ago
Who was Thorkell the Tall?
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/27/2024 - 10:20
TheCollector
How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life?
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Classical Wisdom
Plato On Knowledge
What is True?
8 months ago
TheCollector
Nature Aided in the Creation of the Great Sphinx of Giza?
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TheCollector
10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
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TheCollector
Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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TheCollector
Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Should Death Concern Us?
How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
a year ago
How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
History Today Feed
A History of Phantom Pain
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
11 months ago
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
TheCollector
6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
a year ago
Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
Classical Wisdom
Healthy Skepticism for Better Debates
Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
3 weeks ago
Philosophical Tools for the Holidays
TheCollector
Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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a year ago
TheCollector
Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
2 months ago
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
TheCollector
Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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6 months ago
TheCollector
An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of Thanksgiving?
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, January 12, 2024
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a...
11 months ago
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a draft of something I have promised by the end of the month (so this may not be the only Fireside this month). That said, it seemed like a good time to discuss trade, the sea and...
TheCollector
Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The Sand Creek Massacre: A Horrific Tale of Betrayal & Greed
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Useless in Gaza
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
a year ago
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly,...
6 months ago
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples raised armies to fight the Romans (and others) in the third through first centuries BC. Last time, we looked at the subsistence basis of these societies...
TheCollector
Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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TheCollector
What is Appalachian Culture?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Hanseatic League?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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TheCollector
6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know
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Classical Wisdom
Aristotle's Poetics
The Science of Art
6 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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TheCollector
Memphis Citizens Call for End to New Art Museum
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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10 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the Intellectual history of Africa
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
10 months ago
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
TheCollector
Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’...
3 months ago
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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TheCollector
Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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Classical Wisdom
What makes a good friend?
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
a year ago
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
Classical Wisdom
The First Philosopher?
And the Boundless Universe
6 months ago
And the Boundless Universe
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