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The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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How Nazi Propaganda Appropriated the Vikings
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Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History
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One Last Look at the Hotel where ‘Trainspotting’, ‘The Big Man’, ‘Taggart’ and Other Shows Were...
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A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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Michelangelo Scribble Sells For $200,000
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Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
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Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
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Centaurs and Snake-Kings
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“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
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Who Was Vernon Lee?
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Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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10 Must-See Archaeological Sites in the US
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Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
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Who Won the Second Battle of Bull Run?
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road?
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In the following analysis, we explore the responses to two different extrajudicial killings as a way...
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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What Are the 8 Most Popular Churches in Venice?
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements
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Who Is the Archangel Michael? Analyzing an Angel
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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
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Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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North Pacific Logbook
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
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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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How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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The Problem with Catholic Popes: Linus and the Petrine Succession
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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How Iran Won the West
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The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
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How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II vs. Athens and Thebes
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the rock of polynesia
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's...
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Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
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Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
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Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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Summary of changes for November 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 November.
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William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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The Kiel Mutiny: An Attempt to End WWI?
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
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The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s...
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This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the...
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What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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How Should We Look at History?
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6 Must-See English Castles
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Tiffany Stained Glass Window Poised to Set New Auction Record
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Global Inequality...
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Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
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Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
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Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93
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Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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What Does It Mean to Be a Critical Thinker?
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4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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Explore Ancient Rome by Visiting These 6 Sites
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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A review of Miloš Vojinović's “The political ideas of the Young Bosnia”
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Final Call
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The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History)
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Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb
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Interview with Dr. Mark Solms on Freud & Surrealism
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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House
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Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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New Study May Reveal Stonehenge’s Mysterious Origins
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10 Historic Small Towns in Arizona You Must Visit
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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Trying to Understand...
A Week Off And A New Language
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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Do We Need Dress Codes?
Are standards elevating or elitist?
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Christie’s Presents Two Latin American Art Sales, Starting Friday
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Open Culture
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind....
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We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
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3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination
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Who Was Julius Caesar?
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Are There Still Lepers? The History of Leprosy in 5 Chapters
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What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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On the Tory Cult of Personality and its Consequences
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a year ago
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Sparta and… Scotland?
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Laconic wit through the centuries
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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Wed, 09/11/2024 - 07:00
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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Memphis Citizens Call for End to New Art Museum
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What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
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What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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Brushing for Britain
Brushing for Britain
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Brushing for Britain
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triump, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great...
10 months ago
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Romans and the heirs of Alexander, asking the question, “What can defeat a Macedonian sarisa-phalanx?” Last time, we started looking at...
weird medieval guys
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oh my god!!! oh my god!!!! oh my god!!!!!
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The 21st Amendment: The Only Amendment That Repealed Another
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What Are the Five French Republics?
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Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might...
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“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might have heard that Ernest Hemingway wrote a six-word short story in response to a $10 bet that so few words could make the reader cry. Hemingway won with: “For sale: Baby shoes. Never...
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10 Ancient Sites in New Mexico You Should Visit
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Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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Dreams of Space -...
Yuri's Night is April 12th!
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri...
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Dream About Gagarin (1961)
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Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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A Colossal Ramses II Statue Pieces Uncovered
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Does Karma Exist?
Does what goes around come around?
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Does what goes around come around?
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When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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Art Basel Miami Beach Opens 2024 Fair
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Summary of changes for April 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 April.
Summary Of Changes
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Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics
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Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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Plastic Surgery as Art? 6 Facts About ORLAN
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Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
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Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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The Mystery of Agnes Martin in 7 Facts
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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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Dreams of Space -...
Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963)
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some...
12 months ago
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets.
Coombs, Charles. Illustrated by Foor, R. H. Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power. New York: William Morrow and Co. (96 p.)...
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are...
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The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
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One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this...
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Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this week, but not quite ready to get started yet. I’m also thinking, perhaps before that, of doing a short post or set of posts on the organization of non-state ‘tribal’ societies in...
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Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage....
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“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage. Chance brought me together with a crowd of unknowns. It was up to me to parse them out and magnify the moment.” – Joni Sternbach on her pictures of NYC Subway Passengers in the 1970s ...
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Italian Police Thwart “Tomb Raiders” at Etruscan Burial Site
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5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style
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Coach Rusty’s Art Goes Interactive With Top Tier Authentics
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What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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African History...
a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa.
a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
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a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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Who Was the First President to Live in the White House?
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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