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Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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The Lost Years of Jesus
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7 Famous Surrealist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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Wed, 12/11/2024 - 08:43
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Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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What Is the History of Halloween?
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Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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The Year's Midnight.
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit
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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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Classical Wisdom
History as Tragedy?
A Different View of Thucydides
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A Different View of Thucydides
TheCollector
The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Love Ourselves?
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
10 months ago
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June
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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved the Uxntal reference sheet and improved the Uxntal...
African History...
When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
a year ago
*my article for New Lines Magazine
TheCollector
Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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TheCollector
Monet’s London Paintings to Reunite After 120 Years
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What Was the Rhodesian Bush War?
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Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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History Today Feed
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
Heracles and the Lernaean Hydra: The Hero’s Second Labor
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TheCollector
What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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Flashbak
Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
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7 months ago
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
TheCollector
Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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Flashbak
Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
9 months ago
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of zodiac figures accompanied with text. It was made before 1844. “Maria Revere Balestier (daughter of Paul Revere and wife to the first American consulate to Singapore) was the...
TheCollector
Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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TheCollector
A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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TheCollector
Frick Collection Announces April 2025 Reopening
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TheCollector
Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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2 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s...
4 months ago
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the...
TheCollector
What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Why Did Rome Fall?
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
a year ago
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
uxn,...
TheCollector
What Was the War of Jenkins’ Ear?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
We Are All Civilisational States
It's just that some people don't realise it.
a year ago
It's just that some people don't realise it.
Open Culture
The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
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We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
TheCollector
Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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Who Was George Hodel?
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3 months ago
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Who Was Geoffrey of Monmouth? The Man Who Made Arthur and Merlin
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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2 months ago
A Collection of...
Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
8 months ago
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
TheCollector
The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
Classical Wisdom
The Cyclops
A Misunderstood Monster?
a year ago
TheCollector
The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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TheCollector
How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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Classical Wisdom
Origins of Latin Literature
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
a year ago
...and the Master of Roman Comedy
African History...
A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899)
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
a year ago
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
TheCollector
World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
In Defence of Boring Books
In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
8 months ago
In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
How Does the Electoral College Work?
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TheCollector
How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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Architectural Wizardry: 4 Fascinating Works by Antoni Gaudi
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Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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History Today Feed
King John’s Lost Treasure
King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
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King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the...
a year ago
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
TheCollector
Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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Interview with Dr. Roberta Bondar: Intertwining Art and Science
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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Who Was Walt Whitman?
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Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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3 weeks ago
African History...
a complete history of Mombasa ca. 600-1895.
Journal of African cities: chapter 13
3 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 13
TheCollector
Italy to Open Its Largest-Ever Presentation of Willem de Kooning
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Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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Trying to Understand...
Papa To The Rescue.
And stop saying "it's not fair!"
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And stop saying "it's not fair!"
TheCollector
Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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History Today Feed
‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/26/2023 - 00:00
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/26/2023 - 00:00
Flashbak
Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a...
a year ago
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
History Today Feed
Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
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Fri, 12/20/2024 - 09:47
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Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
JamesHoare
Fri, 12/20/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic...
a year ago
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those...
Open Culture
The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
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The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
TheCollector
Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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a year ago
TheCollector
4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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10 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, updated jib cars, and added new recommendations on the...
TheCollector
New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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a year ago
TheCollector
Hidden Figure Identified in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco
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a week ago
Trying to Understand...
Bringing It All Back Home
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
a year ago
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
TheCollector
Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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a year ago
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