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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
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Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
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Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi?
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Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
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Watch TV-CBGB – A Punk Sitcom From 1981
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In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews, comedy skits, and live performances”. Stuart Newman, a member of the The Roustabouts, one of the groups featured on the show – along with Idiot Savant, The Hard, Jo Marshall, Shrapnel...
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are...
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The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
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Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed...
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Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed it :) . It was a premium with Mickey Mouse Weekly magazine. Evidently the magazine came with some pages that you could fold up into a tiny book. The others I have found evidence of...
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Both in the ancient world... and today?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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“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...
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Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came...
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The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
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How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
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Kikkuli!
Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
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Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
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A Brief History of Collecting Art
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6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world.
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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In Defence of Boring Books
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The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
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Dreams of Space -...
World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
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A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
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Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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Patterns in Humanity
Racial Homicide Disparities Since 1910
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
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The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted in one of the continent's longest-standing conflicts, which threatens to destroy the country's social fabric and its historical heritage. Just as the plight of modern Darfur...
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine
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“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who...
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What Was the Hanseatic League?
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks
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Euripides’ Lost Plays
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces
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This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
TheCollector
Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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One Of My Essays In Dutch.
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and...
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I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
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Denim: The Fabric That Built America
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images...
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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Who Were the Kuomintang?
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A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
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In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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What is the “Mind”?
And How Do We Learn?
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LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
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For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
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What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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7 Fascinating Facts About the Vestal Virgins
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000...
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In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000 employees lost their jobs. And another part of old New York went the way of the Automat and the Times Square peep show. The New York State Legislature enacted its first off-track betting...
Hundred Rabbits
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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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
10 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added galley refit, updated lifelines, seamed box cushions, and moisture prevention underliner.
Permacomputing, revamped the page.
Flappy Bird,...
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What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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What Are the Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela?
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History Today Feed
The KGB After Stalin
The KGB After Stalin
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The KGB After Stalin
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place”...
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Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
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“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
a year ago
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
TheCollector
The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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weird medieval guys
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Sexy? Scary? Both?
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Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it...
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“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it begin now? – Charles Green Shaw This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) in the late 1920s or early 1930s (given the styling, it’s a...
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...
a year ago
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a nice gift box with a space quiz. It is a little bit of an odd astronomy book. The illustration are very beautiful and if you notice each planet has smaller people in the picture to...
TheCollector
Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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The Future of US Elections: Potential Changes and Emerging Issues
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Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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African History...
A complete history of Zeila (Zayla): ca. 800-1885 CE.
Journal of African cities: chapter 14
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Journal of African cities: chapter 14
History Today Feed
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
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Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
Classical Wisdom
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Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
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Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
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What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
Is it good, bad or relative?
6 months ago
Is it good, bad or relative?
TheCollector
Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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Trying to Understand...
When The Music's Over ...
Turn out the lights.
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Will The West Eat Itself?
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
a year ago
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
Dreams of Space -...
Yuri's Night is April 12th!
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri...
a year ago
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri Gagarin 1st manned flight into space in Vostok 1, which completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. So this book is also from 1961 suggesting that children should dream of this...
TheCollector
What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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Classical Wisdom
Who cares about Homer, anyway?
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
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What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
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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
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Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
TheCollector
Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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Seneca's Tragic Plays
Stoic or Not?
8 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa,...
8 months ago
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) look at the how the Roman military system and its manipular legion were able to defeat the Hellenistic military system and its Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and...
Global Inequality...
2x2 geopolitics
Wars and ideology simplified
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Wars and ideology simplified
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Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House
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Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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Art Basel Miami Beach Opens 2024 Fair
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10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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Sophocles' Swansong
Oedipus at Colonus
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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Summary of changes for October 2023
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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.
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