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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
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...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
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Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998) was known to his fans as Orion. To others he was Elvis Presley. Ellis appeared with many artists, including Loretta Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy...
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Summary of changes for April 2024
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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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How to Steal From Homer
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What Are the Books of the Old Testament? Order & Overview
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The Death of Einhard the Historian
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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What Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England?
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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over a year ago
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'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
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One, Two (1965)
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a year ago
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
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A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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Summary of changes for November
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over a year ago
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Donsol, designed a donsol turnip.
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Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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History Today Feed
How French Was Medieval England?
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How French Was Medieval England?
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Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
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“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos that, even more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all their gleeful decadent fun.” – Michael Musto on New York City video blogger (vlogging) Nelson...
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3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
7 months ago
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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The Eiffel Tower: 12 Facts About the Iconic Parisian Landmark
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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A History Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the...
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This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
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Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
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How to Explore the Galapagos Islands for Its Natural Wonders
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Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate,...
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a...
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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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),...
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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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Death of a Turkey Legend
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
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8 Famous Impressionist Paintings You Should Know
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Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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Who Was Julius Caesar?
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The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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Dreams of Space -...
The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
12 months ago
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that was a give-away from Lord and Taylor's Department stores. With it's moon dust snowflakes and 1970s design it is a winner every Christmas. I especially enjoy how Santa has to get...
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
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Aristotle's Poetics
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What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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10 Forgotten US Presidents
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Seafaring, trade and travel in the African Atlantic. ca. 1100-1900.
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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When Was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
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Dreams of Space -...
Beyond Mars (1960)
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
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Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps in space including: solar sailing, travel to Saturn via long distance trips to the outer solar system, multi-year hibernation travel, hydroponics, and visiting other solar...
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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 Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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13 English Words with Greek Origins
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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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10 History-Rich But Affordable US Cities You Can Move to
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a brief note on themes in African art.
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
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Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
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Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2024
Hey everyone!
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May.
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Who Was Benjamin Disraeli?
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Overcoming Bias
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The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story
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Dreams of Space -...
What the Moon Is Like (1963)
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
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Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again.
What the Moon is Like is another book by the children's science writer Franklyn Branley. He wrote many children's non-fiction books with a variety of...
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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Stoicism and Stress
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Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
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The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
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Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
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This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
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The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
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As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
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Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
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Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The band had recently released their fourth album Juju (1981) and were working on their fifth A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982). While other punk bands had imploded, Siouxsie and the...
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My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
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“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
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First Major Survey of Georgia O’Keeffe Cityscapes Opens June 2
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
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Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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How Did Socrates Die?
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Who Is the Archangel Michael? Analyzing an Angel
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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The textile trade of pre-colonial Africa
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Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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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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World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
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doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
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Hell in the Bible: Eternal Damnation vs. Annihilationism
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Artist Seals Himself in Glass Bottle at Paris Olympic Stadium
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Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
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What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and white hints and pulls you in whereas colour can distract and reflect? LensCulture magazine celebrates black and white photography with is 2024 Black and White awards. “The enduring...
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
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Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
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Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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The Mystery of Agnes Martin in 7 Facts
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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New Alphonse Mucha Museum to Open in Prague
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Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
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When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
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When Was D-Day?
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Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes:...
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Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. – William Shakespeare, The Tempest, illustrated by Arthur Rackham 1926 Arthur...
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Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
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Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
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Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
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On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched high above the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, France. The wedding of two members of the Franco-Czechoslovakian (Diables Blancs) White Devils Company was overseen by Father Robert...
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
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What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s...
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These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
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How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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What Was Organization Todt?
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The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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The Stars of Sun Records: 4 Famous Singers
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What Is First Corinthians About?
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an African portrait of an African society
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
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Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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Songhai Empire: The Rise & Fall of Africa’s Biggest Empire
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What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
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Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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8 Colorful Installations by Olafur Eliasson
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Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
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For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
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10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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7 Fascinating Facts About the Vestal Virgins
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The Death of Clive of India
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The Death of Clive of India
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Historic Copenhagen Stock Exchange Catches Fire
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How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963)
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some...
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A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets.
Coombs, Charles. Illustrated by Foor, R. H. Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power. New York: William Morrow and Co. (96 p.)...
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What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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Who Were the Allied Powers?
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5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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