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Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
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When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
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Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence European Art?
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Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2024
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
Summary Of Changes
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Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
TheCollector
Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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Flashbak
Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
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8 months ago
On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
TheCollector
The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
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A history of the west African diaspora in Arabia and Jerusalem before 1900
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The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
Niju,...
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Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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Trying to Understand...
Candles and Kalshnikovs.
Please help us not to understand.
a month ago
Please help us not to understand.
Classical Wisdom
Why Did Rome Fall?
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
a year ago
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
TheCollector
Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a week ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, updated the documentation for our various projects.
Left, added support for unicode input(Mastodon).
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Air to Ground...
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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Empire building and Government in the Yorubaland: a history of Oyo (1600-1836)
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Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
TheCollector
Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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Trying to Understand...
Bringing It All Back Home
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a year ago
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
CrimethInc.
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Heracles Captures the Cretan Bull: The Hero’s Seventh Labor
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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For the Love of the Classics
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Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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Patterns in Humanity
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6 months ago
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10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
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8 months ago
There are no "why"s in our world.
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10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism
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6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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Flashbak
42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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Why Do Religions Decline?
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I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
7 months ago
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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A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
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Why Did Ukraine Make Stamps of Banksy’s Art?
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Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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The Politics of Exhaustion.
And the exhaustion of politics.
6 months ago
And the exhaustion of politics.
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I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I...
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I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
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Newest Banksy Mural Guarded After Vandalism
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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What Was the Importance of the Dragon in Early Medieval England?
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The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict
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Summary of changes for December 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added solar cooking experiment, making seamed box cushions, making saloon cushions, moisture prevention underliner, and board games. Updated...
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Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
a year ago
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in particular the oddity of the Romans not using spear-and-shield infantry (much), but it isn’t ready yet and other things have me quite busy, so fireside it is. Fortunately, we have...
Flashbak
48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981
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In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...