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Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
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Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the...
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Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the market, or of the company to be found here, but just of having that same view every morning. We love this city, but when it's time to go, it's time to go!
We left our mooring at...
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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5 Creatures from Slavic Mythology Represented in Art
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Mao’s Great Leap Forward & How It Killed Millions
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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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Which US President Served the Shortest Time in Office?
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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
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When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres tour, Blondie got the call. Georgia-based southern rockers Stillwater couldn’t play. So would the New Yorkers deliver what 18,000 fans of the Canadian rockers packed into the...
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Odysseus in the Underworld
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance
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African History...
a brief note on the Intellectual history of Africa
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
Open Culture
How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
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Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
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Fireside Friday, January 12, 2024
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a...
11 months ago
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a draft of something I have promised by the end of the month (so this may not be the only Fireside this month). That said, it seemed like a good time to discuss trade, the sea and...
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Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
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What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
The Death of Caspar Hauser
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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Sappho
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The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I...
over a year ago
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground...
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Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
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7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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Dreams of Space -...
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a year ago
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri Gagarin 1st manned flight into space in Vostok 1, which completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. So this book is also from 1961 suggesting that children should dream of this...
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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Will The West Eat Itself?
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a year ago
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
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Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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Who Was Django Reinhardt?
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Global Inequality...
The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present
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China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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King John’s Lost Treasure
King John’s Lost Treasure
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Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
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King John’s Lost Treasure
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African History...
The textile trade of pre-colonial Africa
In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana),...
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In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana), carrying more than 6,000 pieces of cloth which was to be exchanged for gold.
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The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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7 Museums to Visit in Athens
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The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might...
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“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might have heard that Ernest Hemingway wrote a six-word short story in response to a $10 bet that so few words could make the reader cry. Hemingway won with: “For sale: Baby shoes. Never...
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Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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Dreams of Space -...
Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a...
a year ago
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a nice gift box with a space quiz. It is a little bit of an odd astronomy book. The illustration are very beautiful and if you notice each planet has smaller people in the picture to...
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History?
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Reforming England’s Divorce Law
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
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Reforming England’s Divorce Law
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements
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Philosophy and Children
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An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
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Essential Greeks LIVE Webinar Times
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Another Of My Essays in French
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A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’?
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Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
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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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Rastafarianism: Religion or Philosophy?
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What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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Leonora Carrington Painting Set to Quadruple Auction Record
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What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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The Second Punic War: How Hannibal Almost Conquered Rome
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On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
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Encaustic Painting: An Ancient Art Form Explained
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11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case
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Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
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What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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Who Was Geoffrey of Monmouth? The Man Who Made Arthur and Merlin
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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France Saves Europe.
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Again. In a manner of speaking.
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Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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Aristotle on Luck
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The Past Is Another Country.
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A book review from the future.
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Summary of changes for May
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over 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.
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Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
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Centaurs and Snake-Kings
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The History and Beauty of the Moscow Metro
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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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Aristotle's Poetics
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Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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