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Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
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Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
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What Is Thatcherism?
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Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
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What Is the Didache?
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
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Isadora Duncan: 12 Facts About the Pioneer of Modern Dance
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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What Can You Expect to See at the Spring Temple Buddha?
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Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
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How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally?
Here are a few modest ideas.
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Here are a few modest ideas.
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Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
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What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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African History...
The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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6 Micronations You Should Know
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How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
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London’s Old Master Sales Squeak by Expectations
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What Was the Hanseatic League?
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How Did Philosophers of Different Eras Perceive Happiness?
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Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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Who’s in the Tomb?
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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Alexander McQueen: 5 Fashion Collections Inspired by Art
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When technology follows art
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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6 Incredible Roman Sites in Spain
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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Classical Wisdom
Confessions from a Classics Lover
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How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
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L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
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5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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Summary of changes for November 2024
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
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100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
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Patterns in Humanity
Sweden's immigration taboo
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Immigration data kept behind closed doors
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Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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LIVE Event: What is Plagiarism?
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With Harvard Professor James Hankins and 'History of Philosophy without any gaps' Peter Adamson.
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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TheCollector Interviews Artist Inna Levinson: From Paint to Pixels
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
a year ago
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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10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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Aristotle on Luck
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How Magnus Maximus’ Forgotten Son Contributed to the Arthurian Legends
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Books To Help Us Understand The World?
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Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
TheCollector
Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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‘Spiral Jetty’ Added to National Register of Historic Places
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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Summary of changes for September 2023
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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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
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The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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What Is the Origin of Cowpox (& How Did It Cure Smallpox)?
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Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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FDR: How Roosevelt Won Unprecedented Four Presidential Elections
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Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
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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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7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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Does Marcus Matter?
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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5 Royals Who Behaved Badly
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
a year ago
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
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Summary of changes for February 2024
Hey everyone!
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More Banksy Animals Appear Across London
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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African History...
A general history of African explorers of the Old world, and a 19th century Bornu traveller of...
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old...
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This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old World’ from the classical period to the turn of the 20th century.
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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Classical Wisdom
What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
Classical Wisdom
Herodotus Versus Thucydides?
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
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Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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