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Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
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The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
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Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
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This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
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On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
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The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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Manhattan Noir: John Fensten’s Photographs of New York City in the 1980s
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
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donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
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The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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You And Whose Army?
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
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“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads....
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“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) gives you a prescribed way in which you can actually reduce genuine suffering in your life because Rome’s great “philosopher king” lays out a very compelling, very...
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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African History...
Empire building and Government in the Yorubaland: a history of Oyo (1600-1836)
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
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Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
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In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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Overcoming Bias
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I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my...
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I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my last post make this a good time to take stock.
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What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
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Wavelengths of light between 400 and 700 nanometers on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) are known as visible light, or light that can be processed and seen by the human eye. It’s a little fraction of all the EM radiation around us. There are many other parts of the EM spectrum...
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Elliott Erwitt: A Brilliant Photographer Who Took Great Snapshots
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“The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera” – Elliott Erwitt Elliott Erwitt died at his home in New York City on 29 November 2023. He leaves us with remarkable archive of fabulous photographs of the great and good, the many places he visited over...
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Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World
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3 months ago
Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England. “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 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 July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
Hakum, added two drawings to the...
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities
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The Story of Thebes
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten...
a year ago
From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten city-state...
African History...
The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park...
4 months ago
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
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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...
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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...
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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Artist Frank Auerbach Dies at 93
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What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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Newest Banksy Mural Guarded After Vandalism
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Trying to Understand...
The Newer World Order.
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But can they get their heads round it?
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
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Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and...
6 months ago
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and brew beer, the place has been sanctuary to immigrants for centuries and is now home to a large Bangladeshi community. In the 17th century, French Huguenots arrived and brought with...
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You...
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“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You see one earring. Walk slowly past the photograph so you are viewing it from gradually changing angles… The earring from one ear recedes from view while its twin [appears] in turn on...
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How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor?
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
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Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
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Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93
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How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
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British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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Classical Wisdom
Do you need to be Good to be a Good leader?
is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
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is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
Open Culture
What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre,...
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Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it’s claimed)...
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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Mon, 12/04/2023 - 11:45
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
11 months ago
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
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Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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What Is Capoeira?
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The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
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Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
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Ancient Marble Zeus Head Unearthed in Türkiye
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller...
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An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller description:
Friedrick Mader, "the German Jules Verne" according to Sam Moskowitz, was a popular author of fantastic romances in post-World War One Germany. DISTANT WORLDS is his only novel...
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The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the...
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For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the pointy guitar, the hair, the band, the drive, the tights, the most piercing scream outside a Pee Wee Herman meets Cher Christmas convention. And you also had the hair. In the 1980s …...
Global Inequality...
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Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
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Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
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The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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Dreams of Space -...
Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
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A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the space race but they did have a clear plan laid out for creating the engineers they might need. The school library was usually full of these career books to inspire academic...
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Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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Trying to Understand...
The West is Weak Where it Matters ...
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...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
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Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/21/2024 - 08:00
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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Mon, 10/21/2024 - 08:00
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
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Tate Modern Reopens Its 10th Floor Viewing Platform
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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Who Is the Father of Pentecostalism?
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Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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Death of the King of Siam
Death of the King of Siam
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
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Death of the King of Siam
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
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What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
a year ago
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in particular the oddity of the Romans not using spear-and-shield infantry (much), but it isn’t ready yet and other things have me quite busy, so fireside it is. Fortunately, we have...
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What is the “Mind”?
And How Do We Learn?
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The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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Serop Simonian Art Dealer Arrested by German Polica
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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When Did the Korean War Start?
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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Jean Cocteau: A Complete Insight (Bio & Art)
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Patterns in Humanity
Mental Health and Social Stratification
In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and...
a year ago
In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and discuss some of the implications for social stratification.
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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Columbine 25 Years On
Columbine 25 Years On
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
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Columbine 25 Years On
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
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The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
JamesHoare
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What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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Trying to Understand...
The Modern World Is Boring.
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Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
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Ivar the Boneless: History, TV Portrayals, and Viking Legends
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What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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