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The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
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What Is Gnosticism?
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Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
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“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter ...
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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6 Astounding Achievements by Maya Lin
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
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Toxic Walls: Why Was Victorian Green Wallpaper So Deadly?
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What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy
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Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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What Is Appropriation in Art?
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Dreams of Space -...
Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a...
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Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
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How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
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A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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And how does it reflect on us?
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Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites
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Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
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The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some have been drawn on the printed photo with pen, others form part of the image itself. The use of bows and arrows by humans predates recorded history and is common to most...
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5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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Abkhazia’s National Art Gallery Works Destroyed by Fire
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The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present
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China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain...
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
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10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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*my article for ROAPE journal
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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 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).
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How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
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A Collection of...
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
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What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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What Government Governs Best?
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‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
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A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
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A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
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What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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10 Must-Visit Places Around the World for History Buffs
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When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
a year ago
*my article for New Lines Magazine
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Beware Policy Abstraction
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3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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African History...
A muslim kingdom in the Ethiopian highlands: the history of Ifat and Adal ca. 1285-1520.
During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most...
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During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most powerful dynasties, whose history significantly shaped the region's social landscape. The history of one of these dynasties, often referred to as the Solomonids, has been...
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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4 Villains From the Arthurian Legends Who Really Existed
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Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some...
10 months ago
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
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Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes...
2 months ago
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes Stephen Harmon, a retired lawyer who first lived on New York City’s West End Avenue and 73rd street. “I am a photographer and set out to preserve it on film because I knew the...
Trying to Understand...
The Sense Of An Ending.
But right back where we started from.
4 months ago
But right back where we started from.
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it...
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“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it is 4pm in dear old England and it is carelessness of this kind that makes my eyes steel slits of blue. – Letter to James Bond author Ian Fleming Many … Continue reading "Dear...
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10 Historic Towns in Oregon Worth Visiting
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What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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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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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin....
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
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Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of...
3 months ago
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of times, they weren’t that happy about it. I went to three or four Lollapalooza concerts with my camera when they were there – I busted into things not to supervise them but to take...
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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3 Beautiful Places in the North of England Tourists Tend to Neglect
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Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
Part One, anyway. More next week.
8 months ago
Part One, anyway. More next week.
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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Here’s What to Know About the History of Lake Como’s World-Famous Villa
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Classical Wisdom
How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
3 months ago
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
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What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April
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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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Res Obscura
Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy?
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
a year ago
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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Classical Wisdom
Do You Believe in Magic?
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
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Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
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4 Novels by John Steinbeck You Should Read
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Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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10 Architectural Landmarks You Must See in Valencia
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and...
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“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and Sketches Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877–August 9, 1962) speaks of the search for truth and that sense of escaping into the natural world in this 1920 collection of his pros,...
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7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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History Today Feed
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
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Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
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Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
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How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
a year ago
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January 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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added electrical refit(portal for AC & DC...
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V),...
a year ago
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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Wuxing: What Are the Five Elements of Chinese Philosophy?
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Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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African History...
Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper...
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In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper reported that “The king shows himself only once a year to his people, going out of his court on horseback, accompanied by three or four hundred noblemen on horseback.”
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Levina Teerlinc: A Woman Artist of the Tudor Court
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10 Films for Photography Enthusiasts
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Res Obscura
"He spoke of computers with some awe"
Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
9 months ago
Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
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Giants in the Bible and Other Writings: From Genesis to Mythology
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Trying to Understand...
War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
5 months ago
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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African History...
The kingdom of Ndongo and the Portuguese: Queen Njinga and the dynasty of women sovereigns...
The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
a year ago
The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
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Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
5 months ago
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
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Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts
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The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what...
5 months ago
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what to do
CrimethInc.
The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power...
2 weeks ago
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power between various factions with various degrees of support from Russia, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. Over the past few days, however, taking advantage of the ways that Iran...
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Kalimantan: Indonesia’s Hidden Gem for Animal Lovers
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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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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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History Today Feed
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
CrimethInc.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
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The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in Syria are not over. Israel has bombed hundreds of locations around the country and seized a considerable amount of land in the southwest, while Turkish proxy forces are threatening...
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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Classical Wisdom
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
History Today Feed
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
When Nostalgia Was Deadly
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/11/2024 - 08:00
Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I...
over a year ago
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
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Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Aristotle on Friendship
a year ago
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Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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Classical Wisdom
Oops! I did it again...
Getting our events straight...
a year ago
Getting our events straight...
Trying to Understand...
The End of Power Projection?
We can't get there from here, anymore.
a year ago
We can't get there from here, anymore.
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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Top Five Painters To Watch in 2024
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Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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History Today Feed
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
2 months ago
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
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What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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