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The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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French Culture Minister Calls For Climate Activism Penalties
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TheCollector
Medieval Do’s and Don’ts of Dating: Complexities of Courtly Love
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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Flashbak
William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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Commodus: The Gladiator Emperor of Rome
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African History...
A muslim kingdom in the Ethiopian highlands: the history of Ifat and Adal ca. 1285-1520.
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TheCollector
Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self
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Hundred Rabbits
leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
over a year ago
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
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The Stars of Sun Records: 4 Famous Singers
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?
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St. Nick and Saturnalia
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The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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Classical Wisdom
Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like?
I Dare You...
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Global Inequality...
The end of the great order under the Heaven
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A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
History Today Feed
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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Trying to Understand...
Unlike For Like.
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TheCollector
What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
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Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
TheCollector
The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r, released a guide to diesel Engine Care.
Wunderland Rabbits,...
Flashbak
Lower Manhattan in 1973
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These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
TheCollector
Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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What Is the Hill of the Buddha?
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TheCollector
What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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Flashbak
Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched...
6 months ago
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TheCollector
Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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4 Techniques of 19th-Century Photography You Should Know
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
Starting Tomorrow
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10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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Overcoming Bias
Our Authoritarian Default
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2 months ago
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Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights
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Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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History Today Feed
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
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Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
TheCollector
What Is a Banana Republic?
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10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest
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Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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weird medieval guys
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Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
TheCollector
John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
TheCollector
Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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Dreams of Space -...
I Want To Be A Space Pilot (1961)
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
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Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
I Want To Be A Space Pilot is part of a series of children's books called "I want to be..." They are essentially a beginning to read career book. I like the very basic illustrations and the straightforward text. I also...
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
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Thu, 02/01/2024 - 09:58
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/01/2024 - 09:58
TheCollector
Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what...
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Classical Wisdom
How to Steal From Homer
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
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Wrong Side of...
The case for a Global Sanctuary City
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TheCollector
3 Key Ideas in Environmental Ethics
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7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know
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Classical Wisdom
Ovid's Dating Advice
Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
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Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
TheCollector
Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know
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Animals of the Ancient World
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Animals of the Ancient World
Flashbak
Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s...
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These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
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The Death of Literary Fiction.... And its Resurrection?
A New -different- Event
a year ago
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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
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Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
TheCollector
Andrei Molodkin Holds Art Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life
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6 Assassinations That Changed History
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The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism
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Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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Flashbak
A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
7 months ago
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TheCollector
The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
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Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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Open Culture
When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public...
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TheCollector
4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
TheCollector
What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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TheCollector
Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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Classical Wisdom
Why Aren’t We Happy?
Count no man happy until the end is known
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Count no man happy until the end is known
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Banned Book Week Begins...
TheCollector
The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
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Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
TheCollector
Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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Greece's Forgotten Legacy
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Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
TheCollector
Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving on the Second Monday of October?
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History Today Feed
The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:35
TheCollector
Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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Who is Mierle Laderman Ukeles?
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
a year ago
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TheCollector
The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities
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Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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Hundred Rabbits
where is the turtle farm
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the...
over a year ago
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the market, or of the company to be found here, but just of having that same view every morning. We love this city, but when it's time to go, it's time to go!
We left our mooring at...
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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Giorgio Agamben’s Notes on Dante’s Divine Comedy
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Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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Trying to Understand...
The Power Of Absent Things.
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
9 months ago
It explains a lot about Ukraine.
TheCollector
5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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History Today Feed
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
History Today Feed
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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Wed, 12/20/2023 - 00:00
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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What Was the First Written Language?
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10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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The Political Effects of the Vietnam War
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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: 11 Works Featuring the Artist’s Favorite Flower
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Trying to Understand...
The Machine Stops.
And fiddling won't fix it.
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And fiddling won't fix it.
Classical Wisdom
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Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
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Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
TheCollector
Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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TheCollector
Slavoj Zizek on the 2 Types of Violence
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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Flashbak
Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a...
9 months ago
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
TheCollector
Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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Classical Wisdom
Is Subjective Equal to Objective?
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the...
a year ago
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the middle of winter, and finally, around four months later, the first real spring day had arrived. The sun bore her rays magnificently, forcing the city’s residents into an ant-like...
TheCollector
Give All to Love: A New Documentary on Ralph Waldo Emerson Debuts
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A Collection of...
Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis...
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Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis verba fecit… This week we’re taking a brief look, by ACOUP Senate request, at Greek and Phoenician colonization in the ancient Mediterranean. In particular, the focus requested was...
TheCollector
How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?
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History Today Feed
China’s Communist Comic Books
China’s Communist Comic Books
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Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
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China’s Communist Comic Books
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Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an...
2 months ago
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
TheCollector
How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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History Today Feed
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
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Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
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The Death of Little Jack the Boy Missionary
JamesHoare
Fri, 04/05/2024 - 09:52
TheCollector
Grand Egyptian Museum Partially Opens to the Public
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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JamesHoare
Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
TheCollector
Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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Patterns in Humanity
When Lightning Strikes... Literally
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
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TheCollector
Rastafari Philosophical Tenets: Divinity Within & African Redemption
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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What is Digital Art? A Brief History and Tips for Collecting
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How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocket Divers (1962)
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
11 months ago
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
TheCollector
Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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TheCollector
What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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History Today Feed
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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JamesHoare
Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
TheCollector
London’s Old Master Sales Squeak by Expectations
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7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Dress Codes?
Are standards elevating or elitist?
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Are standards elevating or elitist?
TheCollector
Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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TheCollector
Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
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TheCollector
Mount Toba: Did a Supervolcano Almost Wipe Out the Human Species?
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African History...
A complete history of the old city of Gao ca. 700-1898.
Journal of African cities: chapter 12
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Journal of African cities: chapter 12
TheCollector
La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of...
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Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
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Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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Who Was Carl Gustav Jung?
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Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
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Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
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‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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Francisco Goya Research Center Launches in New York City
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Get to Know Palazzo Doria Pamphilj & Its Fascinating History
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning
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“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
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Will it Bend or Will it Break?
The international system, that is.
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The international system, that is.
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Aeneas: Founder of Rome
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The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
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Marina Abramović Leads 7-Minute Silence at Glastonbury Festival
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What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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Prince Charles III Portrait Defaced by Animal Right Activists
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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Michelangelo Scribble Sells For $200,000
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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Who Is the Real Banksy? Rumors Behind the Street Artist
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The Evolution of Socialism and Its Influence in the US
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit the Pyramids?
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Who Was Douglas Adams? The Iconic Science Fiction Writer
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7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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How Iran Won the West
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Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say?
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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Love, love, love
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Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
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“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act as a form of communication that transcends language to connect cultures together” – Jeffrey Deitch Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010) changed our expectations around art. Named after...
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The Mystery of Penelope
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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What Is a Medieval Morality Play?
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Things Don't Always Get Better.
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
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And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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What Is the Will to Power?
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Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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Dutch & Flemish Vanitas Paintings: A Theme for the North’s Golden Age
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5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington
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Dreams of Space -...
Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
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Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other...
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Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
AND October 1, 2012...
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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Albert Speer: Architect, Minister, and Hitler’s Closest Friend
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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Dust Bowl Troubadour: Who Was Woody Guthrie?
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Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
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Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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The Modern World Is Boring.
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Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
African History...
on the Nubian priests of Rome and the Moors of Spain
When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain...
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When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain and became one of the most celebrated Andalusian poets, he wasn't the first from his region to visit the Moorish kingdom.
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6 Things You Should Know about Sculptor Augusta Savage
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What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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Beware the Lides of March
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Beware the Lides of March
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The Dutch Throne in an Exhibition for the First Time
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Patterns in Humanity
Crime in the USA
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A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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Why Did Remedios Varo Paint So Many Self-Portraits?
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Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
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How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
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An experiment with historical simulation
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Kids–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK...
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I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a cold and grim Christmas in 1977, that’s exactly what happened. While many Britons were settling in for a warm yuletide, the Pistols decided to host a party/benefit for the...
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Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
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The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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Who Was George Hodel?
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Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
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Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
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Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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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),...
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This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
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Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
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Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
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We Are All Civilisational States
It's just that some people don't realise it.
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It's just that some people don't realise it.
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Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
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Rome's Worst General?
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
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And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
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Seafaring, trade and travel in the African Atlantic. ca. 1100-1900.
historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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Artists Expressed Concerns on Banning TikTok in the U.S.
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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