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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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented the export of .theme files, and theme...
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty
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Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
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This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
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Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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Was Vincent van Gogh Religious?
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Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
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Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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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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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
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The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings?
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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Before Banksy: London Graffiti in the 1980s
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It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the right people. Most of of it got washed off walls or knocked down as the buildings it decorated made way for flats. Most of it wasn’t all that good. And because London graffiti was a...
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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What Are Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Top Achievements?
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Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
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Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)
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When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
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Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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Lower Manhattan in 1973
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
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Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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Summary of changes for September
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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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
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The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if Donald Trump is running for President as a fascist. Worry not, this isn’t me shifting to full-time political pundit, nor is this the formal end of the hiatus (which will happen on...
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Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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Anglo-Saxon England’s Last 50 Years: A True Game of Thrones
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Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone...
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Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the...
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
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Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom...
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For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
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Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte...
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Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
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Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death
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African History...
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plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
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What should we do with Seneca?
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
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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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Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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Weekend Roundup
Ancient Podcasts
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On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human...
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Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human beings, if they care about them at all?
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The Rembrandt Painting to Sell For $18.4 M. at Auction
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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a brief note on the history of Africans exploring their own continent
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plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
Global Inequality...
The end of the great order under the Heaven
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A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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5 Military Geniuses From History
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7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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10 Historic Small Towns in Florida for Your Bucket List
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6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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6 Must-See English Castles
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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Phillips 2023 Sales Dropped Down 15 Percent from 2022
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Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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444 Days: The Story of the Iran Hostage Crisis
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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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Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
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Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
Some lessons from history and archaeology
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Some lessons from history and archaeology
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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What Is a Film Auteur?
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UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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Mon, 10/28/2024 -...
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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The History of Porto & 21 Amazing Historic Sites You Should Visit
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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Dreams of Space -...
Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963)
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there...
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After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there are not a lot of illustrations of space flight this book was very important to me at the time. I remember finding it in the school library and then getting my own paperback copy...
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
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Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
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Wed, 04/24/2024 - 08:00
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Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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Summary of changes for June
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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, released a nasu guide, and updated the look of the icon. We...
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The Tragedy of Ajax
Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
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Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
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A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in...
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“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.” ― C.S. Lewis In his 1955 book Surprised by joy : the...
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The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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Overcoming Bias
Arntz-Gray & I Talk Feminism
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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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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
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Bananas & Brutality: The Twisted History of United Fruit
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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain...
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In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain a loser At break of day I say goodnight When I lie down I have a great fear Of falling. – Ballade du concours de Blois by François Villon … Continue reading "Strange And...
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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...
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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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Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French...
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The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French readers in 1847. Baudelaire, who saw Poe as a “sacred soul” and something of a kindred spirit, translated many of the American writer’s words into French, including Poe’s poem The...
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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Prince Charles III Portrait Defaced by Animal Right Activists
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Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of...
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Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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Overcoming Bias
Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
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Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
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The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
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William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
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What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take
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$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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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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JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches
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Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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Trying to Understand...
Useless in Gaza
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
a year ago
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
African History...
A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD
demystifying an ancient African society
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demystifying an ancient African society
African History...
On Hegel's ignorance of African History
*my article for ROAPE journal
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*my article for ROAPE journal
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What Is the Will to Power?
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The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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Should We Navel Gaze?
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
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Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2023
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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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100r.co, updated jib cars, and added new recommendations on the...
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What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
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This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails. A leading figure in early American abstraction, Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) was an American painter, poet,...
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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African History...
A history of the west African diaspora in Arabia and Jerusalem before 1900
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
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The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
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The First Stoic
Zeno of Citium
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"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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Three Early Basquiats to Sell at Phillips This Spring
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What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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10 Must-Visit Places Around the World for History Buffs
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6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocket Divers (1962)
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
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So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
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Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy
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The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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Summary of changes for December
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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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry?
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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Hendrik Verwoerd’s Life & Death: The Architect of Apartheid
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Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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Dreams of Space -...
Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago....
a year ago
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
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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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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10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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