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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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a brief note on African travel literature in history
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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What Was Kantai Kessen?
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Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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Do Words Matter?
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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 history of the Rozvi kingdom (1680-1830)
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From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
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Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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London Olympics and Tony Blair’s Decision on Parthenon Marbles
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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Stop Making Sense.
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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Building Reading Skills (1951)
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Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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The Earliest Trade Networks Between Europe, Asia, & the Pacific
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
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In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
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Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
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A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share. This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
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Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
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Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
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Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso
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Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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Why Did Ukraine Make Stamps of Banksy’s Art?
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Open Culture
The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford...
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How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
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An experiment with historical simulation
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5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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What Are the 8 Most Popular Churches in Venice?
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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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Classical Wisdom
Who’s in the Tomb?
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
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Another Of My Essays in French
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
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Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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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.
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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History Today Feed
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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an African portrait of an African society
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What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks
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What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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Hundred Rabbits
where is the turtle farm
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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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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
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The 21st Amendment: The Only Amendment That Repealed Another
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What Are the 8 Best Art Attractions in Budapest? (local tips)
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
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Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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The Night of the Long Knives: How the Nazis Purged the SA
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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TheCollector
5 Top Fighter Aces of World War I
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Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon...
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a...
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Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a child he harboured dreams of becoming a photographer. He roamed around his parents’ home and snapped pictures in his head. He had a talent for it which he thought of turning into a...
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‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
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Classical Wisdom
Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
How can we train Resilience?
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How can we train Resilience?
TheCollector
Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens
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Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray...
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The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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African History...
A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
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In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
TheCollector
3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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Should We Own Stuff?
The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
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French Culture Minister Calls For Climate Activism Penalties
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When Did the Korean War Start?
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
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On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
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Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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Where did the time go?
Important Notice
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Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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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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Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
History Today Feed
US President or American Caesar?
US President or American Caesar?
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Bob Ross’s First Completed Work Is Up for Sale for $9.85 M.
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Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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Should We Follow Silly Laws?
And what happens when we don’t?
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And what happens when we don’t?
TheCollector
Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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Wrong Side of...
Will the last young professional to leave Britain turn off the lights?
'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
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1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
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“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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The Epics Collection
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Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing,...
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“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing, 1935 In his October 1935 column for Esquire magazine called Monologue to the Maestro: A High Seas Letter, Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899–July 2, 1961) shared his tips for writing...
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What Was the War of Jenkins’ Ear?
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‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
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How Were the Twelve Tribes of Israel Formed?
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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What Is Conceptual Photography?
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Who Was Vortigern?
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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The Vasari Sacristy: Breathtaking Artwork in Naples
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Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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What is Virtue?
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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Britons Caught in the French Revolution
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
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Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
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How to use generative AI for historical research
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Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
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The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story
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Res Obscura is now on Substack
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
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For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
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How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
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The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac Sprague (1811–1895) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter. He was a self-taught landscape, botanical and ornithological painter. Sprague served...
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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Dreams of Space -...
Beyond Mars (1960)
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
a year ago
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps in space including: solar sailing, travel to Saturn via long distance trips to the outer solar system, multi-year hibernation travel, hydroponics, and visiting other solar...
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
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Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured pictures, interviews, drafts and other materials made by member of the Exit Photography Group – Nicholas Battye, Chris Steele-Perkins and Paul Trevor. Created between 1974 and...
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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How Does Mona Hatoum Turn Ordinary Objects into Artworks?
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Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism?
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Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
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For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
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Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In...
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Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.” In 1976, nine-year-old Amy Carter left her home in Plains, Georgia, and moved into the White House. People noticed the first child to live at the White House since the days of JFK. And...
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
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Before Banksy: London Graffiti in the 1980s
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a year ago
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...
Dreams of Space -...
Hombres Del Espacio (1960)
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
a year ago
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull
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“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many inner city areas being bulldozed and instant slums being created on its outskirts. It seemed to have learnt nothing from the mistakes I had fought against during the previous decade...
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Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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The 4 Most Controversial Historical Events from the Past 200 Years
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Bananas & Brutality: The Twisted History of United Fruit
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10 Must-Visit Towns With Thanksgiving Traditions
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Summary of changes for January 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
10 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added galley refit, updated lifelines, seamed box cushions, and moisture prevention underliner.
Permacomputing, revamped the page.
Flappy Bird,...
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History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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René Descartes’ Legacy: The Persistence of Mind-Body Dualism
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah
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Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
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What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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CrimethInc.
The Case for Resistance : What We’re Up Against—and What It Could Look Like to Fight
In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we...
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In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we can prepare to confront it. If you only have time to read one part, read the proposals for what we can do to resist.
It’s understandable that many people feel exhausted at the...
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Persian myths and realities on the Swahili coast: contextualizing the 'Shirazi' civilization.
Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
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Why geneticists found what archeologists and historians had failed to locate.
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What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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Patterns in Humanity
The Rise of the West
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people...
a year ago
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people of science, and then I put it in context with other indicators of historical development. The data together show that West Europe had developmentally surpassed the rest of the world...
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some odds and ends.
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A History of the United States Senate
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Classical Wisdom
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...
a year ago
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?
African History...
A general history of African explorers of the Old world, and a 19th century Bornu traveller of...
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This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old World’ from the classical period to the turn of the 20th century.
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
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6 months ago
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples raised armies to fight the Romans (and others) in the third through first centuries BC. Last time, we looked at the subsistence basis of these societies...
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Mothers of the Ancient World
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Mothers of the Ancient World
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Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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No Cheers for Authoritarianism
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Remind me what it was, exactly ....
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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those...
9 months ago
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
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Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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Overcoming Bias
Conquest and Liberation of Academia
During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
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During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
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Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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Summary of changes for July
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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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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Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
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10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army
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ICYMI: Emperors, Conquerors and Saints
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Lucian Freud Nude to Make $20 Million Auction Debut
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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David Roberts & Frederick Catherwood: Artists of Ancient Egypt & Maya
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The Immortals
...and the feared Persian Army
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...and the feared Persian Army
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Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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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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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
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Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
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Colombian President in Search for a Long-Lost Treasure
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Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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What Is First Corinthians About?
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What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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10 Cultural Sites in New York City You Should See
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
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Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav...
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Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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Trying to Understand...
The Power Of Absent Things.
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
9 months ago
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
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Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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Trying to Understand...
People, States and Borders.
And other dubious ideas.
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Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox...
4 months ago
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome, running from the late fourth through the first century BCE, a period that, relevant for today’s discussion, covers the Middle and...
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