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The Search for the Historical Buddha
The Search for the Historical Buddha
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:39
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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African History...
A complete history of the old city of Gao ca. 700-1898.
Journal of African cities: chapter 12
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Journal of African cities: chapter 12
African History...
A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899)
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
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State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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Andrei Molodkin Holds Art Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life
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Pace Gallery to Represent Paul Thek Estate
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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7 Wars That Nearly Happened (But Didn’t)
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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...
7 months ago
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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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
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a year ago
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
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A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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No Cheers for Authoritarianism
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Face to Face Exhibit Offers Face Time With Fayum Portraits
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Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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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...
11 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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Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was...
10 months ago
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was sold, women raged in raucous nightclubs, gay rights found its voice, Madonna joined her first band, BLADE used trains as his canvas and In 1981, 22-year-old Christopher Morris was...
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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10 South American Artists You Should Know
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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UK Gallery to Recreate “Groundbreaking” 1907 Exhibition
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When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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Who Were the Ancient Israelites? A Brief History
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Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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Wrong Side of...
The Phantom of Polarisation
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Do people actually disagree that much?
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Prometheus: The Titan Who Defied Zeus and Created Humanity
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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Monet’s London Paintings to Reunite After 120 Years
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10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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What to See on Vienna’s Long Night of Museums
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5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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Oops! I did it again...
Getting our events straight...
a year ago
Getting our events straight...
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4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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Patterns in Humanity
Demographics and American Homicides
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
11 months ago
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
Hundred Rabbits
Working offgrid efficiently
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the...
over a year ago
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the limits of our space, and at first, it was difficult to create new things, as we had to make time to learn how to solve underlying problems. Our boat was not just an office, it was...
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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The Mystery of Morpheus
Who is the God of Dreams?
a year ago
Who is the God of Dreams?
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...
a year 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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Art Philanthropy in the US Depends on Prestige
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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6 Things You Should Know about Sculptor Augusta Savage
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MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
a year ago
‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
a year ago
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to take advantage of the excitement about this launch. So they had to include a booklet to explain why this slightly inaccurate model was so special. Imagine opening the model kit...
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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Flashbak
Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
a month ago
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China?
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Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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5 Royals Who Behaved Badly
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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Hidden History
Museum Ship Destroyer USS Kidd
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a...
a month ago
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a Rear Admiral who was killed on board the Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Kidd served in both the Second World War and the Korean War. The destroyer USS Kidd was...
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Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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How the CCP is Closing China
How the CCP is Closing China
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:47
7 months ago
How the CCP is Closing China
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:47
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Thefts From Heritage Sites in the U.K. Are Rising
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Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 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 February.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added gimballed stove, open pantry, Little Ninj and LPG fume detection system. Updated galley refit and Western Canada(includes tidal/current...
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How Did Socrates Die?
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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Who Are the Klu Klux Klan?
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Can you REALLY be offended on behalf of someone else??
Lessons from Borat
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Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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Summary of changes for August 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
4 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added new pages: Sointula, Johnstone Strait anchorages, and Central coast anchorages. Updated existing pages: added Yuculta and Dent rapids with...
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Should Death Concern Us?
How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
a year ago
How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
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The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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Who Won the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House?
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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Weekend Roundup
Aristotle's Politics
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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Street Shots of New York City in 1978
“Every day was like being in a scene from a movie set in the city” – George Wright In ‘New York...
21 hours ago
“Every day was like being in a scene from a movie set in the city” – George Wright In ‘New York 1978’, British photographer George Wright shows us the city. Having trained as a graphic design at London’s Wimbledon School of Art in the early 1970s, Wright took a class taught...
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Religion in the Olympics
The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
5 months ago
The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
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What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism?
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How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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Open Culture
How A Charlie Brown Christmas, and Its Beloved Soundtrack Album, Almost Never Happened
A Charlie Brown Christmas uses a cast of amateur child voice actors, deals with the theme of...
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A Charlie Brown Christmas uses a cast of amateur child voice actors, deals with the theme of seasonal depression, and culminates in the recitation of a Bible verse, all to a jazz score. It was not, safe to say, the special that CBS had expected, to say nothing of its sponsor, the...
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What Was the First Written Language?
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as...
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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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Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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The Prophecies of Merlin
The Prophecies of Merlin
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Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
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The Prophecies of Merlin
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Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
Trying to Understand...
Externalising Our Hatreds.
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It's Ukraine and Gaza. Again.
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Does FREE WILL Exist?
And if not, what are the consequences?
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And if not, what are the consequences?
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Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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Overcoming Bias
Our Authoritarian Default
Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently...
2 months ago
Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently puzzling to justify more careful study.
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met
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Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
a year ago
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
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How Did the Seasons Get Their Names?
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King Stephen of Blois: England’s Anarchist King
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Jonathan Sacks: Are Science and Religion Enemies?
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures?
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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“I Have a Dream”: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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4 Feminist Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi
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The Elgin Marbles: 5 of the Parthenon’s Incredible Sculptures
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The Indian Citizenship Act
The Indian Citizenship Act
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
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The Indian Citizenship Act
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
Overcoming Bias
Beware Policy Abstraction
The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly...
a month ago
The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly confirm that the issues focused on there were biased in two key ways.
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Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks
Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction...
8 months ago
Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction writing, impressive ‘lamb chops’ – of which he said: “They became a permanent feature of my face, and it is now difficult to believe early photographs that show me without sideburns”...
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Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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The Gleiwitz Incident: When Nazis Faked an Attack on Germany
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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Trying to Understand...
Arming Ourselves Against The Future.
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
a year ago
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
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Dealing With Foreigners ...
Is more complicated than you might think.
a year ago
Is more complicated than you might think.
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Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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Weekend Roundup
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
The Vienna Secession is Founded
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A...
4 months ago
In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A member of the Reflex photography group, led by documentarian Diane Bush, a young American established documentary photographer, Portus wanted to show the everyday things people...
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New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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What Is Thatcherism?
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Weekend Roundup
The Art of the Interesting
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The Art of the Interesting
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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CrimethInc.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
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Who Was Frantz Fanon?
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
over a year ago
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Fisher Landau Sale at Sotheby’s Brought $406 M.
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A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
9 months ago
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
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Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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Hundred Rabbits
a home for pino
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd...
over a year ago
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos...
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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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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from...
6 months ago
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from Japan. It’s a subject we’ve visited before with the Yokai Horrors from the 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll. Thought to originate in the mid 1800s, the artist behind the Kaikidan...
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7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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10 Historic Small Towns in Arizona You Must Visit
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10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
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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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