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7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
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The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
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The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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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 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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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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No Left Turn
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The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
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 Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
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Are There Still Lepers? The History of Leprosy in 5 Chapters
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Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
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Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
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5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
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The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
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Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
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What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
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Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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6 Things You Should Know about Sculptor Augusta Savage
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Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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Young Technician December, 1957
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
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In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
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7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Les Soixante-Huitards: The French Student Demonstrations of May 1968
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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
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How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
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How Did the Megali Idea Shape Greece Until the Balkan Wars?
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Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
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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...
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5 Important Stories From the Aboriginal Dreamtime
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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Discover Norman Rockwell’s America (& His Legacy)
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The KGB After Stalin
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Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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What Makes a Celt & Did They Ever Inhabit Britannia?
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Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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The Many Roads to Rome
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‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
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The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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New Alphonse Mucha Museum to Open in Prague
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Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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Journal of African cities: chapter 13
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally?
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How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:18
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
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Mon, 06/24/2024 - 10:22
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Open Culture
The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
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What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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Who Was Jack the Ripper? 6 Likely Suspects
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A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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The First Philosopher?
And the Boundless Universe
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And the Boundless Universe
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What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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And Those Like Him?
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
10 months ago
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
Clyne,...
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Artemisia of Caria
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
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Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
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6 Female Pre-Raphaelite Artists You Should Know
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The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
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A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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Capitalism, Govt Causes Culture Woes?
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13 Surprising Facts About William Shakespeare
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIb:
This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at...
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This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at Paradox Interactives ancient grand strategy game, Imperator: Rome, which covers (inter alia) the period of the collapse of the Roman Republic, which we generally call the Late...
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Original ‘Keep Calm’ Posters Set to Sell for Thousands at Auction
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Work Begins on Naples’ New Archaeological Museum
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic...
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This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those...
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10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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Medieval Muslims loved their cats so much
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Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
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What Was Operation Downfall?
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
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When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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The Ancient Ozempic
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
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Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
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Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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Things Don't Always Get Better.
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Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
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leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
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We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
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10 Terrible Catholic Popes
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Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal
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The Myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Great Flood in Greek Mythology
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Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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The Indigenous Architecture of the Cosmos in the Amazon
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Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the...
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A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
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What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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Dry Toilet Installation
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over a year ago
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer it over the ready-made models. We learned tons doing it, and now our toilet is perfectly suited to our space. The pandemic has pushed more people into boat and van living (to travel...
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What Is the History of the Guitar?
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A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
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“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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Will it Bend or Will it Break?
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The international system, that is.
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Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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Yayoi Kusama Unveils New Public Sculpture in London
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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African History...
a brief note on the history of indigenous and foreign religions in African history, and the Kimpasi...
The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various...
4 months ago
The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various denominations, with a relatively small fraction adhering to other belief systems often referred to as 'indigenous' or 'traditional' religions.
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The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
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The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
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And Now for Something Completely Different.
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A Collection of...
Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
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This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
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8 months ago
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was bushy haired and youthful, soft-bodied like the Jesus at the Arian Baptistery, hopeful and free. The face was based on the best looking heathen gods. In the Middle Ages, Jesus...
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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...
African History...
A history of Grande Comore (Ngazidja) ca. 700-1900.
State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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State and society on a cosmopolitan island
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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What is Postmodern Art? The Genre Defined in 8 Iconic Works
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What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition: What is an Active Life?
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The Lost Years of Jesus
The Lost Years of Jesus
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Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
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The Lost Years of Jesus
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Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
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The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
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British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
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Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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Trying to Understand...
A Week Off And A New Language
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6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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The Louvre Could Move Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber
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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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British Museum to Digitalize Its Collection
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What Is Theodicy?
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Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
“In the Roundhouse, the UFO, and the Middle Earth Club in London everyone seems to get it, and it’s...
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Latest Pompeii Discovery is a Rare Blue Room
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Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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What Are the Scientific Roots of Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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Their Enemies The Russians
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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What Is an Antipope?
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Dreams of Space -...
Blast Off (1973)
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full...
a year ago
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
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The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism
Heraclitus against Parmenides
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Heraclitus against Parmenides
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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The Missile Will Always Get Through.
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What Was the First Written Language?
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What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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Thu, 12/19/2024 - 09:05
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Thu, 12/19/2024 - 09:05
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What’s the Best Time to Visit the Colosseum?
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Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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Res Obscura
Centuries of Childhood
The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories...
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The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories about it?
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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The Fall of a Republic
Cato and Caesar
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When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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The Eye of Every Storm : Anarchist Response to Hurricane Helene
At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30...
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At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30 inches of rainfall over two days when an unnamed storm collided with Hurricane Helene over the mountains of Southern Appalachia. The resulting catastrophe laid waste to the entire...
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5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as...
a year ago
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its...
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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Res Obscura
Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
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Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
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What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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Mothers of the Ancient World
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Mothers of the Ancient World
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Complete Kelmscott Press Book Collection Sells Out at Auction
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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Tue, 10/29/2024 - 09:42
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Cronus: The Titan Leader in Greek Mythology
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Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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Isadora Duncan: 12 Facts About the Pioneer of Modern Dance
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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