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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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10 Powerful Roman Emperor Names Still Used Today
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Why Did the 1904 Olympic Marathon End in Disaster?
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historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
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Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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Patterns in Humanity
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First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an...
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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Working offgrid efficiently
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For the first 3 years we tested the...
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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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...
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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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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
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Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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Who Is the Mystery Mummy of Tomb KV55? (4 Theories)
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Dreams of Space -...
Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
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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 Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
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For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis verba fecit… This week we’re taking a brief look, by ACOUP Senate request, at Greek and Phoenician colonization in the ancient Mediterranean. In particular, the focus requested was...
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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Dreams of Space -...
World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
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A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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Britons Caught in the French Revolution
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Fireside Friday, March 22, 2024
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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many
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How Did Philosophers of Different Eras Perceive Happiness?
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Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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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 March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r, released a guide to diesel Engine Care.
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
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Who Was Oswald Mosley?
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An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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15 Facts About Genghis Khan & His Legacy
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The intellectual history of Ethiopia and Eritrea: Ge'ez manuscripts and scholars (ca. 200-1900CE)
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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Dreams of Space -...
One, Two (1965)
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
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The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
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What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
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This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
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Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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Hidden History
Museum Ship Destroyer USS Kidd
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a...
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Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
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Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and...
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“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883–April 10, 1931) published the collection Twenty Drawings, the first and only time a selection of his paintings had appeared in print....
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An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
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The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V),...
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This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
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The Wages Of Fear
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Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
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6 Female Pre-Raphaelite Artists You Should Know
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African History...
Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
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an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
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Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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What Is the History of Valentine’s Day?
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Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, January 12, 2024
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Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a draft of something I have promised by the end of the month (so this may not be the only Fireside this month). That said, it seemed like a good time to discuss trade, the sea and...
Classical Wisdom
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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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The Phantom of Polarisation
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Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
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Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
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10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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7 Museums to Visit in Athens
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Vanishing Point: New Zealand and Australia in the 80s and 90s
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Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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Dr Paul Cartledge on Alexander the Great’s Tomb, Netflix & More
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What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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state and society in south-central Africa
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state and society in south-central Africa
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The Dutch Throne in an Exhibition for the First Time
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Get to Know Alma Mahler: Composer, Muse, and Scandalous Woman
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10 Incredible Examples of European Symbolist Art
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The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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Memphis Citizens Call for End to New Art Museum
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
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Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
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We might not be in this mess.
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We might not be in this mess.
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
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When Did the Korean War Start?
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African History...
Africa and Europe during the age of mutual exploration: a Swahili traveler's description of 19th...
The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on...
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The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on a global scale in which African travelers were active agents.
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Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like?
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Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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The Missile Will Always Get Through.
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Baron Von Steuben: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell During the USA’s Founding
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5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Who Is the Real Banksy? Rumors Behind the Street Artist
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The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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Unlocking the Unconscious: Who Was Sigmund Freud?
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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CrimethInc.
Insurgent Survival : Reflections on the Fight Against Sweeps Targeting the Homeless in Austin, Texas
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In 2019, militants in Austin, Texas started an organization with the aim of defending homeless camps against sweeps—forced removals disguised as “cleanups” carried out by cops and work crews. This organization, Stop the Sweeps, intervened in a cycle of struggles that included the...
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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The Indigenous Architecture of the Cosmos in the Amazon
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The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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8 Must-See Highlights From London’s Soane Museum
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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The KGB After Stalin
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The KGB After Stalin
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Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
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Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
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Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
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Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a...
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Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a nice gift box with a space quiz. It is a little bit of an odd astronomy book. The illustration are very beautiful and if you notice each planet has smaller people in the picture to...
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Summary of changes for December
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
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Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
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8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Summary of changes for November
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Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in England
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Shocking Scandals: 10 of the Most Controversial US Elections
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Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements
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How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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The Cyclops
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Manhattan Noir: John Fensten’s Photographs of New York City in the 1980s
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How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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What Are Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Top Achievements?
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What Is the History of the Blues?
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Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
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5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style
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What Is Nestorianism?
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
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Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro
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Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
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In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper reported that “The king shows himself only once a year to his people, going out of his court on horseback, accompanied by three or four hundred noblemen on horseback.”
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Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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‘Spiral Jetty’ Added to National Register of Historic Places
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Early Bird is Ending
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What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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Ovid's Dating Advice
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Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
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Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
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I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
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St. Nicholas
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How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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What Was Organization Todt?
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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Hidden History
The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at...
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In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at Kirtland Air Force Base just outside of Albuquerque NM. In January 1950, President Harry Truman announced that the United States would begin a crash program to develop and deploy a weapon...
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What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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3 Key Ideas in Environmental Ethics
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Frick Collection Announces April 2025 Reopening
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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Stop Making Sense.
There are no "why"s in our world.
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There are no "why"s in our world.
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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Res Obscura
How to use generative AI for historical research
Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
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Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
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David Roberts & Frederick Catherwood: Artists of Ancient Egypt & Maya
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New British Museum Book Brings Egyptian Pharaohs to Life
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
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Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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African History...
a brief note on themes in African art.
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
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Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
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A history of the south-western Saharan towns of Tichitt, Walata, Wadan and Chinguetti (800-1912)
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
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Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
Classical Wisdom
Should We Follow Silly Laws?
And what happens when we don’t?
a year ago
And what happens when we don’t?
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Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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Why drug history?
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
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Overcoming Bias
Beware Policy Abstraction
The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly...
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The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly confirm that the issues focused on there were biased in two key ways.
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Lower Manhattan in 1973
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May...
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These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
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Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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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...
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How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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James Joyce's Ulysses
Retelling of the Odyssey
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Walt Disney: The American Dream Personified (Bio & Facts)
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