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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 November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
GrimGrains, added a quick grilled cheese recipe.
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London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra...
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Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra pay For sitting on their arse all day! – London Underground by The Amateur Transplants Peter Marshall shows us pictures of stations on the London Underground, Docklands light...
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Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
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Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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US Returns 600 Stolen Artifacts to Italy
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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Can't Do, Won't Do!
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The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
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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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What Is a Nantucket Sleighride?
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10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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Who Was George Eliot?
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The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
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In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
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The History of Underwear: Loincloths, Petticoats, Boxers, & Briefs
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John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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Belgian Revolution: The Independence Movement That Surprised Europe
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Abundance, capitalism and climate change
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In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
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Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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6 Facts About Hilla von Rebay: The Mastermind Behind the Guggenheim
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I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
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Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
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Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
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Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
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Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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Have We Become Anti-Human?
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Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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Socrates and the Soul
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Who Was Averroes?
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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Do You Believe in Magic?
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Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
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5 Victorian Fashion Trends: From Flammable Skirts to Poisonous Fabrics
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
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What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
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Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
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What Made Sir Joshua Reynolds an Iconic Portrait Artist?
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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The Assassination of Malcolm X
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5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert...
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“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert Mallet-Stevens In 1924, French architect and designer Robert Mallet-Stevens (March 24, 1886 – February 8, 1945) published La Gazette Des 7 Arts magazine and founded the Club des amis du...
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A History Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro
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Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
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This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
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Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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What Are the Strengths of Determinism?
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... and the Fall of the Republic
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Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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Dreams of Space -...
Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
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Ancient Greek Astronomy
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What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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How Did Argentina Lose the Falklands War? Defeat in the South Atlantic
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
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Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
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Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the evolution of black-white homicide disparities in the United States since the early 20th century.
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Rijksmuseum Begins Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’
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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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Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Sotheby’s to Auction Its First Robot-Made Artwork
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Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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Malta & Its Role in World War II: A Crucial Fortress Island
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Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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The Anne of Cleves Louvre Portrait Got a Makeover
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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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Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
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Was Emperor Nero Universally Hated During His Reign?
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10 Historic Towns in Nevada Worth Visiting
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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Georgia: The Firework Protests : A Report and Video Footage from the Streets of Tbilisi
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Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
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Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free
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James Joyce's Ulysses
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How the South Became Republican
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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Middle Kingdom Pyramids: The Lesser Known Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
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Journal of African cities chapter 7
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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Tattoos in the Bible: Can Christians Modify Their Bodies?
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The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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A very deep history of Halloween
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Cj Hendry Lands in Miami With HOOPS Tree Installation
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Summary of changes for August
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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.
Summary Of Changes
Left, added a navigation bar to navigate larger...
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
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