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Summary Of Changes
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
uxn,...
Dreams of Space -...
A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
3 months ago
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do.
A Visit to the New York World's Fair was the official World's Fair...
Global Inequality...
The third framing
Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
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Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/24/2024 - 10:22
6 months ago
‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/24/2024 - 10:22
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Rastafari Philosophical Tenets: Divinity Within & African Redemption
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Who Was Django Reinhardt?
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The Mystery of Agnes Martin in 7 Facts
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post...
a month ago
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
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Putting Pirates on Trial
Putting Pirates on Trial
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
Putting Pirates on Trial
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
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6 Incredible Roman Sites in Spain
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Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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A Brief History of Mount Everest
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What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
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 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.
Noodle,...
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8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy
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Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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African History...
a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
6 months ago
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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Who are the Yazidis & What Are Their Beliefs?
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What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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What Language Did the Ancient Romans Speak?
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6 Misconceptions About Biblical Angels
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6 Things You Should Know about Sculptor Augusta Savage
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Trying to Understand...
War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
Understanding political violence.
a year ago
Understanding political violence.
Dreams of Space -...
The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970)
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
12 months ago
Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that was a give-away from Lord and Taylor's Department stores. With it's moon dust snowflakes and 1970s design it is a winner every Christmas. I especially enjoy how Santa has to get...
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Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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A Collection of...
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...
4 months ago
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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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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Res Obscura
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that...
7 months ago
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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Columbine 25 Years On
Columbine 25 Years On
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
8 months ago
Columbine 25 Years On
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
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What is Objectivism? Ayn Rand’s Philosophy
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Flashbak
‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres...
a year ago
When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres tour, Blondie got the call. Georgia-based southern rockers Stillwater couldn’t play. So would the New Yorkers deliver what 18,000 fans of the Canadian rockers packed into the...
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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A History of the US House of Representatives
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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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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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
6 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Frances Bay, Yuculta and Dent Rapids, Shoal Bay, Port Neville, Telegraph Cove, Port McNeill, Fury Cove, Prince Rupert, B.C. north coast...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
a year ago
Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
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May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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Flashbak
In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington...
2 months ago
“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington on his Living Room project Time to step back inside British homes in the late 1980s with photographer Nick Waplington’s Living Room series. Published as a book in 1991, the...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Lives of Exiles
9 months ago
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Fall of Constantinople (1453): The Siege That Changed the World
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What Are Conlangs?
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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Dreams of Space -...
Happy Journeys (1961)
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about...
11 months ago
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about the future and ways someone might travel. The illustration were double page full color paintings of a exciting and strange future that might be around the corner. I see in this...
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Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
11 months ago
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
Trying to Understand...
The Revolt of the Outer Party.
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
8 months ago
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
Hundred Rabbits
goji no chaimu
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
over a year ago
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
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What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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Flashbak
Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
8 months ago
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of...
2 months ago
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of ikebana. The practice, which roughly translates to “making flowers come alive”, “the way of flowers” or the less poetic “flowers kept alive” uses flora to create specific human...
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Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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Trying to Understand...
The Missile Will Always Get Through.
But who is prepared to admit it?
2 weeks ago
But who is prepared to admit it?
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444 Days: The Story of the Iran Hostage Crisis
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy
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Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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Hundred Rabbits
a home for pino
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd...
over a year ago
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
Open Culture
The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
5 days ago
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
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What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French...
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The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French readers in 1847. Baudelaire, who saw Poe as a “sacred soul” and something of a kindred spirit, translated many of the American writer’s words into French, including Poe’s poem The...
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it...
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Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it presented creations by such couturiers as Louise Chéruit, Premet (best known for La Garconne, or The Flapper, a black dress with a white collar and cuffs introduced in 1923, Philip et...
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Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
10 months ago
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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Trying to Understand...
Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
over a year ago
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
Classical Wisdom
The Art of Pompeii
Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
5 months ago
Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
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The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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African History...
Join me on Notes
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
a year ago
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
a month ago
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V),...
a year ago
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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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings?
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Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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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...
8 months ago
“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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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin....
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
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10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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Liverpool Kids: Surviving Inner City Life In 1975
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured...
7 months ago
Paul Trevor’s photographs of Liverpool in 1975 formed part of The Survival Programme, which featured pictures, interviews, drafts and other materials made by member of the Exit Photography Group – Nicholas Battye, Chris Steele-Perkins and Paul Trevor. Created between 1974 and...
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Get to Know Palazzo Doria Pamphilj & Its Fascinating History
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What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Maths, Art, and the Moon
8 months ago
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10 National and State Parks in the US Where You Can See Ancient Redwoods
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African History...
A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala.
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies,...
3 months ago
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies, according to an authoritative study by Eugenia Herbert.
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Who Were the Disciples Thomas, Judas and Simon?
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Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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Top 10 Museums to Visit in New York City
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The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her...
3 months ago
Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat. “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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