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The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
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Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:21
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The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
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Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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Early Bird is Ending
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7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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Sophocles' Swansong
Oedipus at Colonus
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Oskar Schindler: The Business Tycoon Who Became a Hero
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
The Vienna Secession is Founded
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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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Who Is Pina Bausch?
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The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
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The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
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How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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African History...
The textile trade of pre-colonial Africa
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How to Steal From Homer
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The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 08:57
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12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
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Do You Need Children to Care About the Future?
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5 Strangest Art Movements You Need to Know
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3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History
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Abkhazia’s National Art Gallery Works Destroyed by Fire
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Jackie Kennedy’s Georgetown Mansion Goes on Sale
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The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
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Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
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How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
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6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night
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NY Denny Gallery Shuts Down After Ten Years
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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Frida Kahlo Exhibition Heads to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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Wieland: How Religious Extremism Shaped the 1st American Gothic Novel
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Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
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Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
over a year ago
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How Did Tunisia Become a Country?
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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
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Man-Made Moons (1960)
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
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The First Stoic
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Who Was African American Lawman Bass Reeves?
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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Faces of Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
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Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
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What Is the Ides of March?
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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What Is Marie Antoinette Syndrome?
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How to Organize an Assembly : Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism
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Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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Race, economics and homicide in the United States: a summary
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Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
j.hoare
Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
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8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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The Birth of Ovid
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Sun, 03/24/2024 - 00:00
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10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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Artists Expressed Concerns on Banning TikTok in the U.S.
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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Korea’s War of Prisoners
Korea’s War of Prisoners
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Stock Car Racing in 1972
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What Are the Five French Republics?
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Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
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The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
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My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
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The “Arch”: Who Was Desmond Tutu?
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What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
a year ago
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Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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Hunter Biden Did Know Who Acquired His Art
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Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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Cold Snapshots – Vintage Holiday Fun in the Snow and Ice
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection...
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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10 Incredible Examples of European Symbolist Art
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What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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over a year ago
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Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
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A Brief History of Cartography: The Importance of Maps in Civilization
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Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
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Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
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Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible?
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
The First Anglo-Burmese War
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Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
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Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
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The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
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10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
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Fisher Landau Sale at Sotheby’s Brought $406 M.
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Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2
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over a year ago
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician....
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What Is the History of Halloween?
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The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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Odysseus in the Underworld
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Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
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Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:46
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Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel.
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel...
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I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel preparations. One thing that I’m particularly interested in is the material culture of travel, and what sorts of things were available for travellers as they got ready for their...
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What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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A Wasting Asset?
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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Audrey Flack, Pioneer of Photorealism, Dies at 93
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Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
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What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900.
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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What Is a Medieval Morality Play?
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How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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What is TIME? And Dates?
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Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
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This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
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4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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North Pacific Logbook
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
over a year ago
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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What Is Anti-Natalism?
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Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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Do you have less free time than a medieval peasant?
A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
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A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
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The Sense Of An Ending.
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Is Subjective Equal to Objective?
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Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the middle of winter, and finally, around four months later, the first real spring day had arrived. The sun bore her rays magnificently, forcing the city’s residents into an ant-like...
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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Socrates and the Soul
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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Hume on Personal Identity: Who Are We?
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Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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In Defence of Boring Books
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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What Is the History of the Piggy Bank? (Curious Origins)
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Forgotten Sandro Botticelli Piece Seized by Italian Authorities
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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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Getting our events straight...
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Getting our events straight...
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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Why Do Religions Decline?
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Io Saturnalia!
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
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Celebrate the “Best of Days”
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who...
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“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign my … Continue reading "Creating...
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Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
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Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city...
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A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city before there was a Selfridges or Harvey Nichols, and no Bullring as we know it today. Birmingham was a place of subway shops and underground passages that are now filled in and...
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Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
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Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
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But the future worries me.
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What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover
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What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.
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Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide
Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
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Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
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How Foreshadowing Shapes Cinema and Storytelling
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What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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Celebrating Diversity at The National Mall’s Outdoor Show
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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5 Victorian Fashion Trends: From Flammable Skirts to Poisonous Fabrics
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Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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goji no chaimu
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
over a year ago
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
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Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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Explore Ancient Rome by Visiting These 6 Sites
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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The Met Reveals Design for New Modern and Contemporary Wing
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Louis Wain’s Cat Paintings Head to Auction
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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England’s Museum Collections Missing More Than 1,700 Objects
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Why Read Modern Books?
Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
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Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
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I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
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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...
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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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6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of...
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During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh. When I was just a baby my mama told...
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Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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What’s the Best Time to Visit the Colosseum?
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JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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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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Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
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Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
over a year ago
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
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Restoration Reveals Ancient Colors of Egypt’s Edfu Temple
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“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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Amerigo Vespucci & The Naming of the Americas
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The Art of Collage and Assemblage in Modern Art
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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Songhai Empire: The Rise & Fall of Africa’s Biggest Empire
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What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn?
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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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How Did the Seasons Get Their Names?
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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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What’s the History of Gin?
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West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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