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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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Germanus of Auxerre and His Connection to Arthurian Legends
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10 Forgotten US Presidents
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Was Emperor Nero Universally Hated During His Reign?
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
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10 Incredible Examples of European Symbolist Art
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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How Did the Seasons Get Their Names?
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Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
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What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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How did Mao Lead China, and What did He Leave Behind?
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10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton...
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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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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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Why Are There Two Virginias?
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A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age
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Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name?
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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The Most Dramatic Operation to Recover Looted Native American Art
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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Flashbak
1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
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“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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A History Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro
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How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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Overcoming Bias
Cultural Scenario Probabilities
On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative...
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On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative likelihood, desirability, and ease of influence.
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What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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What Is the Origin of Cowpox (& How Did It Cure Smallpox)?
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Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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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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Mon, 10/28/2024 - 10:04
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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Sparta and… Scotland?
Laconic wit through the centuries
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Laconic wit through the centuries
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A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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TheCollector
A History of the United States Senate
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Flashbak
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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Mudslinging & Negative Campaigning: A Look at US Election Dirty Tricks
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
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Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
Flashbak
Cars of Britain in the 1970s
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of...
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In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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People of the Twentieth Century: the Ideal German, the Nazi and the Persecuted Jew
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the...
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“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times.” – August Sander, creator of Menschen des 20 Jahrhunderts (People of The 20th Century) What you see above is a picture of Arnold Katz and Benjamin (Benno) Katz being...
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Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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Weekend Roundup
Memorial Day Weekend Sale
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Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
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Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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10 Ancient Sites in New Mexico You Should Visit
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Guimarães: 9 Historic Sites in Portugal’s Cradle City
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5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
10 months ago
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
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The Troubled History of the Polish-Ukrainian Friendship in the 20th Century
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Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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Explore Montmartre Through Van Gogh’s Eyes: Views of Paris
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
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Street Artist JR Installs Optical Illusion at Milan Train Station
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Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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African History...
A complete history of Zeila (Zayla): ca. 800-1885 CE.
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Journal of African cities: chapter 14
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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Work Begins on Naples’ New Archaeological Museum
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10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
African History...
A history of the Rozvi kingdom (1680-1830)
From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
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From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
Flashbak
El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned...
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At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
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JamesHoare
Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
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‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/18/2024 - 10:25
Open Culture
When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public...
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Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine In NATO Would Be A Disaster ...
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But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
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Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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Trying to Understand...
Will The West Eat Itself?
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
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Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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The Tudor War on Libel
The Tudor War on Libel
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
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The Tudor War on Libel
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
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Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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Why Bother Being Good? A Philosophical Exploration of Morality
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Global Inequality...
Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
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I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence European Art?
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The World’s Most Prestigious Art Fairs (By Continent/Region)
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“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso
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What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
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The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
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What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show
Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther...
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Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) convinced her to remain on Star Trek after she had decided to leave the series for a starring role on Broadway. In 1966, Star Trek creator...
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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Dido: Queen of Carthage
Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
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Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
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Who Were the Kuomintang?
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The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power...
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The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power between various factions with various degrees of support from Russia, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. Over the past few days, however, taking advantage of the ways that Iran...
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The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
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The Stars of Sun Records: 4 Famous Singers
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John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The...
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Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
9 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added gimballed stove, open pantry, Little Ninj and LPG fume detection system. Updated galley refit and Western Canada(includes tidal/current...
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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Classical Wisdom
5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
Ode to the Giants
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