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7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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10 Must-Visit Historic Small Towns in the Adirondacks
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Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
a year ago
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
TheCollector
Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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History Today Feed
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
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Tue, 01/30/2024 -...
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‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
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Tue, 01/30/2024 - 10:13
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa)...
8 months ago
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
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Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know
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5 Famous Artworks of Medusa: Monstrous, Misunderstood, or Moving?
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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Why Socrates Matters
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What Are the Abraham Tapestries?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
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TheCollector
5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a...
a year ago
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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Flashbak
Arnaldo Putzu and His Fabulous Hand-Painted Covers for Look-In Magazine And Movie Posters
You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the...
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You might not know the name Arnaldo Putzu (1927 – 2012) but chances are that if you grew up in the 1960s and 1970s you’ve seen his work on movie posters and magazine covers. Born in Rome, Putzu studied at the Rome Academy and discovered a love of portrait painting. After...
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom...
4 months ago
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...
TheCollector
Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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Classical Wisdom
Ode to a Grecian Tour
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‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange...
7 months ago
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange bucket. He’s wearing dirty jeans and a grey hoodie. The guy’s in his seventies. Weather-worn. Grizzled beard. Walking stick. Back trouble caused by “old spinal injuries and bad...
Flashbak
Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a...
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“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
TheCollector
Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness?
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CrimethInc.
Announcing The Beautiful Idea : A New Podcast
Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media...
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Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media platforms on a new podcast, The Beautiful Idea, which will offer reporting and analysis of current events. The first episode of The Beautiful Idea has just been released!
In their own...
History Today Feed
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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TheCollector
7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly?
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The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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The Coming Of Neo-Tribalism.
Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
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Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
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“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
TheCollector
Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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Global Inequality...
The third framing
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Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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A Collection of...
New Acquisitions: 1933 and the Definition of Fascism
Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if...
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Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if Donald Trump is running for President as a fascist. Worry not, this isn’t me shifting to full-time political pundit, nor is this the formal end of the hiatus (which will happen on...
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What Is the History of the Hudson’s Bay Company?
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire?
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5 Key Myths About the Greek God Hades
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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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...
a week ago
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 Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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History Today Feed
US President or American Caesar?
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7 Most Impressive Villas and Palaces to Visit in Rome
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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Open Culture
99-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Sings & Dances in a Touching New Coldplay Video, Directed by Spike Jonze
There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music...
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There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music video, Mr. Van Dyke dances barefoot and sings knowingly a little off-key—before reflecting on a century of life on this planet. What is love? Is he afraid of dying? What does luck...
TheCollector
The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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Flashbak
I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as...
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doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
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Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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Hundred Rabbits
Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
over a year ago
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
History Today Feed
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
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Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
TheCollector
The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France
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Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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5 Royals Who Behaved Badly
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What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
a year ago
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
Flashbak
Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav...
3 months ago
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
TheCollector
Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History?
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African History...
Historical links between the Ottoman empire and Sudanic Africa (1574-1880)
travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
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travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
Classical Wisdom
Last Chance
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Banksy’s Latest Artwork Is a Goat on a Ledge in London
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What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It)
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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Flashbak
Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in...
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British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s. Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found...
TheCollector
Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting
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Flashbak
Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an...
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Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an Alice Thr0ugh The Looking Glass are so much about the food. Little surprise then to discover The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook: A Culinary Diversion by John Fisher, first published...
TheCollector
A Video Interview with Luis Royo: TheCollector Chats with Fantasy Artist
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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Flashbak
Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot...
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In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot pictures for a story documenting people’s life in the city of Chicago. You can see Volume 1 of his photos here. The series of photographs was accompanied by an essay from the Chicago...
TheCollector
The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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History Today Feed
Aliens and the Enlightenment
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TheCollector
The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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Discover Norman Rockwell’s America (& His Legacy)
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7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Previously Unknown Giorgione Painting Found in Germany
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Open Culture
The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have...
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Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
History Today Feed
Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
JamesHoare
Fri, 12/20/2024 - 09:47
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Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
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Fri, 12/20/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Guide For The Perplexed
Part One, anyway. More next week.
8 months ago
Part One, anyway. More next week.
TheCollector
5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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Shays’ Rebellion Explained: A New Governing System for the New US
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10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid
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History Today Feed
Moving With the Times?
Moving With the Times?
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Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
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Moving With the Times?
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Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
TheCollector
Art Philanthropy in the US Depends on Prestige
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Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
9 months ago
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the triumph of the Roman legions in the third and second century over the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we looked at some of the operational and strategic...
TheCollector
The Grand Egyptian Museum Soon Opens for Visitors
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Flashbak
One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
6 months ago
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown Heights to see the skaters at Brooklyn’s Empire Roller Disco. Formerly the Empire Rollerdrome (built 1941), the rink was now all disco. It was where Cher hosted the release party for...
TheCollector
When Did World War II Start and End?
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TheCollector
Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
a year ago
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
Classical Wisdom
What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
9 months ago
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
TheCollector
The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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TheCollector
The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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TheCollector
What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
Wunderland...
Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sibyls
Ancient Prophetesses
a year ago
TheCollector
How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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History Today Feed
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
Flashbak
Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often...
a year ago
“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before, and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them’ – Helen Keller Helen Keller is best known for her campaign to help the disabled and support for...
TheCollector
The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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Mystery at Cheviot Beach: The Strange Disappearance of Harold Holt
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African History...
The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
6 months ago
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
TheCollector
Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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Grand Egyptian Museum Partially Opens to the Public
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Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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Phillips 2023 Sales Dropped Down 15 Percent from 2022
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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History Today Feed
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
JamesHoare
Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
TheCollector
What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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TheCollector
New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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TheCollector
6 Things You Should Know About Pop Art
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Flashbak
Cars of Britain in the 1970s
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of...
a month ago
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...
TheCollector
Who Was Carl Gustav Jung?
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Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
TheCollector
What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow?
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French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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TheCollector
How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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TheCollector
5 Most Influential Blues Musicians of All Time
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
Trying to Understand...
A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
10 months ago
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
TheCollector
Paris Announces Notre Dame Reopening Plus Potential Entry Fee
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TheCollector
The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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TheCollector
Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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TheCollector
Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part II: Romans, Assemble!
This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman...
a year ago
This is the second of our planned five-part look (I) at the nature and structure of the Roman Republic, particularly the governing institutions of the Middle Republic, the period of the republic’s height from c. 287-100 BC. Last time we discussed the component parts and nature of...
TheCollector
The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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African History...
The kingdom of Ndongo and the Portuguese: Queen Njinga and the dynasty of women sovereigns...
The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
a year ago
The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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Gap Week: December 1, 2023
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
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6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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The Death of A New Jersey Shopping Mall
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William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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What is Pantheism in Art?
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‘D-Day Has Come’
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Exploring the Troubles in Belfast and Derry (Monuments & History)
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6 Themes That Define Nan Goldin’s Photography
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Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
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5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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People of the Twentieth Century: the Ideal German, the Nazi and the Persecuted Jew
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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Abkhazia’s National Art Gallery Works Destroyed by Fire
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Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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When technology follows art
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
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Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
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Why Did the 1904 Olympic Marathon End in Disaster?
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What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda?
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What Is the History of Thanksgiving?
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New British Museum Book Brings Egyptian Pharaohs to Life
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
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Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
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What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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No More Heroes.
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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The Furies
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Who’s in the Tomb?
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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Lucian Freud Nude to Make $20 Million Auction Debut
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Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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Did Pliny the Younger Attempt to Rig the Vote in the Roman Senate?
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How Did Socrates Die?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
10 months ago
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
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over a year ago
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The Two Slayings of Holofernes: Artemisia vs. Caravaggio
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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Volksgeist: Who Was Johann Gottfried Herder?
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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
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6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
Some lessons from history and archaeology
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How Every Empire Falls
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Silvio Berlusconi’s Worthless Art Collection
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Summary of changes for April
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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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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UNESCO Creates a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
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What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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Useless in Gaza
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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How Should We Treat Our Enemies?
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What Is Russian Futurism?
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Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture Heads to Auction
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Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
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Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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8 Works of Paul Klee You Should Know
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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JamesHoare
Wed, 08/07/2024 - 09:01
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No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
So who does?
a year ago
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Summary of changes for October
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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
uxn,...
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