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What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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Dutch & Flemish Vanitas Paintings: A Theme for the North’s Golden Age
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Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
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9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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Will it Bend or Will it Break?
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What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
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Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
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Borrowing from a book-seller description:
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The 5 Most Ridiculous Ways the CIA Tried & Failed to Kill Fidel Castro
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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Patterns in Humanity
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How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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Art Basel Paris Kicks Off in Grand Palais
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Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
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When Was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
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10 Must-See Exhibitions in Europe This Year (2025)
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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
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What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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A complete history of Zeila (Zayla): ca. 800-1885 CE.
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Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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10 Powerful Women From Folklore and Mythology Around the World
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Van Gogh & Gauguin: A Fiery Friendship Between Two Post-Impressionists
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The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present
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Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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How Did Religion Influence Law in the Ottoman Empire?
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Three New Year’s Resolutions from Epicurus
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Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
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Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
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Who Were the Landsknechts?
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What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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50 Years of Cyprus Divided
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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What Is Panpsychism?
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an African portrait of an African society
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Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” Performed by a Choir of 4,000 Singers
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Throughout the years, we’ve featured performances of Choir!Choir!Choir!–a large amateur choir from Toronto that meets weekly and sings their hearts out. You’ve seen them sing Prince’s “When Doves Cry,” Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” (to honor Chris Cornell), and Patti Smith’s...
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What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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What Was Kantai Kessen?
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Why Bother Being Good? A Philosophical Exploration of Morality
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internet in paradise
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Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
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What Are the Abraham Tapestries?
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Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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Flashbak
Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
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African History...
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In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
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TheCollector
Jamestown: The Myth & Mystery of America’s First Permanent Colony
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5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
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5 Women in Philosophy of Science You Should Know
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John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, updated jib cars, and added new recommendations on the...
TheCollector
A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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Dreams of Space -...
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...
Hidden History
Museum Ship Destroyer USS Kidd
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a...
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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...
TheCollector
Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)?
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Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
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TheCollector
Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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Classical Wisdom
The Many Roads to Rome
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The Ancient Romans VS the Modern Chinese
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The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism
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The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
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TheCollector
How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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Thu, 12/14/2023 - 09:33
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History Today Feed
‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
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Flashbak
Roadside Relics of the USSR
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer...
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We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer Jason Guilbeau whose pointing out objects along the roadside, like tractors stuck atop poles, a pavement that turns into a jet’s trail, a tank on a plinth and more reminders of...
TheCollector
Who Was African American Lawman Bass Reeves?
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Flashbak
William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place”...
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“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place” – William S. Burroughs It wasn’t all writing, drug taking, walks among the mysteries, cut ups, fomenting revolution, guns and launching assaults on Soho coffee bars in a typical...
TheCollector
New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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The World’s Most Prestigious Art Fairs (By Continent/Region)
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
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History Today Feed
How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
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TheCollector
What Is the Didache?
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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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Emotions: Better Out or In?
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The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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Open Culture
Read J. R. R. Tolkien’s “Letter From Father Christmas” To His Young Children (1925)
J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for the sweeping fantasy landscapes of Lord of The Rings and The...
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J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for the sweeping fantasy landscapes of Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit. Apart from being a celebrated author, the Oxford University professor of Anglo-Saxon was also a devoted father who doted on his children. In 1920, a few short years after Tolkien...
TheCollector
Is Plato’s Republic a Feminist Work?
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Cimabue Fresco Restored to its Original Glory
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Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
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Hundred Rabbits
the promise of pancakes
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had...
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As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
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Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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What Was the Warsaw Pact?
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History Today Feed
How Mexico Fought Franco
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TheCollector
Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece
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Open Culture
Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and...
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17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
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A Wasting Asset?
Europe turns away from America.
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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What Was Operation Ichi-Go?
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
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Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
TheCollector
Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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Flashbak
The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is”...
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How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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Who Were the Legendary Mountain Men of the Old West?
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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And not just the fighting bit.
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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New British Museum Book Brings Egyptian Pharaohs to Life
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Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank...
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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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Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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A History of the House of Savoy: From Its Origins to Its End
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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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Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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Dreams of Space -...
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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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Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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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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Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
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The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
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A view of pre-colonial Namibia from the khoisan town of ||Khauxa!nas.
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Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE)
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The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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Work Begins on Naples’ New Archaeological Museum
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg?
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What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings?
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Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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Who Were the Important Jewish Philosophers of the Medieval Period?
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Dreams of Space -...
Satellites As A Hobby (1962)
Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and...
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Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and created a space map in 1958 (see Sept 8, 2011 blog post). They reused these illustration in several publication which may explain why they seem a little "dated" for 1962. This book...
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I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my...
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I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my last post make this a good time to take stock.
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
On the Spot: Chris Clark
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
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Interview with Dr. Mark Solms on Freud & Surrealism
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Greece's Forgotten Legacy
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
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Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
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The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict
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10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
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Patterns in Humanity
The Effects of Immigration in Denmark
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an...
a year ago
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an official government report.
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