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New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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How to Read Film Like a Language
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Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
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Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
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Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views
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The Stars of Sun Records: 4 Famous Singers
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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From Anya, Joel and Frida
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
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Tue, 02/20/2024 - 11:50
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5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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The Modern World Is Boring.
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Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
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Venice Plan for Damaged Banksy Mural Concerns Locals
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
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Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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Empress Theodora
Saint or Sinner?
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Unlike For Like.
BRICS and how international institutions work.
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BRICS and how international institutions work.
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Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
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Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere?
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What Makes Jean-Luc Godard An Iconic Film Director?
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Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
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British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
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10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made...
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Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
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The Phantom of Polarisation
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Do people actually disagree that much?
Classical Wisdom
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Classics Gifts!
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A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
a year ago
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5 Famous Black Mexicans
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Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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Who Won the Second Battle of Bull Run?
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Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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Global Inequality...
Freedom by North-West
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The obscurantist nature of East European nationalisms
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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What is the History of Christmas? A Journey Through Time
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Patterns in Humanity
Mental Health and Social Stratification
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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.
TheCollector
What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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What Was the Mason-Dixon Line?
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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Mon, 10/21/2024 - 10:14
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Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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Trying to Understand...
A Fistful of Clockwork Oranges
What's it going to be, then?
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What's it going to be, then?
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3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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UNESCO Creates a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
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5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible?
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How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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Kingdoms at the forest's edge: a history of Mangbetu (ca. 1750-1895)
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has...
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The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has a long and complex history shaped by its internal cultural developments and its unique ecology between the savannah and the forest. Among the most remarkable states that emerged in...
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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Overcoming Bias
Who You Are Vs. What You Control
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other...
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If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
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This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman Republic, particularly the governing institutions of the Middle Republic, the period of the republic’s height from c. 287-100 BC. Last time we discussed the component parts and nature of...
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
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How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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A Collection of...
Comes the Hiatus, 2024!
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards...
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Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
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4 Villains From the Arthurian Legends Who Really Existed
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10 National and State Parks in the US Where You Can See Ancient Redwoods
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Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, added image maps, animation controls, and wrote a guide....
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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The Myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Great Flood in Greek Mythology
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Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
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What Is Transcendentalism?
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome?
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Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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New Year, Old Books
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New Year, Old Books
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Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
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Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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Dreams of Space -...
Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
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From the German Wikipedia site (translated) : "The New Universe is a German children's literature series with themes in the fields of knowledge , research , adventure and...
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Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
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The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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Global Inequality...
Abundance, capitalism and climate change
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In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
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La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique.
Another of my essays in French.
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Another of my essays in French.
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of 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...
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
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Tue, 12/26/2023 - 00:00
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
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Tue, 12/26/2023 - 00:00
weird medieval guys
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Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
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Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
Dreams of Space -...
Searching In Science (1965)
To continue with my post from last week, Searching in Science was another science textbook that also...
over a year ago
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The Moon
The Milky Way and The...
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
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Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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Shays’ Rebellion Explained: A New Governing System for the New US
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
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Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
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Tue, 09/17/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
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Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century
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What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
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What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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Black Panther Party Founder: Who Was Huey Newton?
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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Why did clothing become boring?
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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Eternal Glory
Homer and Kleos
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician....
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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A Brief History of Iceland (From Discovery to 21st Century)
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Louis XIV: History’s Longest-Reigning Monarch
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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A political history of the Kotoko city states (ca. 1000-1900)
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Urbanism and state building in the lake chad basin..
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
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Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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What makes a good friend?
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
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'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
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What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
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7 of the Most Popular Hats in History
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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TheCollector Interviews Artist Inna Levinson: From Paint to Pixels
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What Are Most Infamous Tales about Emperor Caligula?
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Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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How did Mao Lead China, and What did He Leave Behind?
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Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
8 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added chainplates, knots, washing dishes, receiving mail, updated our notes on diy carbonation system, and refrigeration.
Uxn, added 2 new commands...
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July
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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented the export of .theme files, and theme...
Trying to Understand...
The Machine Stops.
And fiddling won't fix it.
3 months ago
And fiddling won't fix it.
TheCollector
Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
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The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
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5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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