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What Is Solipsism?
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Classical Wisdom
Who cares about Homer, anyway?
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
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The Election That Caused the Boer War
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2023
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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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, updated jib cars, and added new recommendations on the...
TheCollector
French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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Self-representation in African art: the wall paintings of medieval Nubia. (ca. 700-1400)
an African portrait of an African society
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an African portrait of an African society
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Brussels Statue Supposedly Damaged by Irish Tourist
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“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like?
I Dare You...
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Auctioned for $6 Million
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The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff
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Anglo-Saxon England’s Last 50 Years: A True Game of Thrones
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6 Outrageous Whaling Stories
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
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10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
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Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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A (Brief) History of Washington DC: Home to the US Presidents
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What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement
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Mothers of the Ancient World
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Mothers of the Ancient World
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Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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Tiffany Stained Glass Window Poised to Set New Auction Record
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8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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Baroque Obsession: What Was So Innovative About Caravaggio?
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Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
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To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
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Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
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Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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History Today Feed
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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TheCollector
The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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Pace Gallery Will Represent the Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative
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What Is an Antipope?
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5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
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Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
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What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
a year ago
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
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Early Christianity
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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TheCollector
5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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Who is Buried in the Valley of the Kings?
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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Mon, 10/28/2024 -...
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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Mon, 10/28/2024 - 10:04
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ib: Subjects of the Successors
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the...
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This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the Hellenistic army and its Macedonian phalanx and the Romans with their legions. Last week, we looked at the weapons, organization and fighting style of the Macedonian phalanx, the infantry...
TheCollector
Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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6 Things You Should Know About Pop Art
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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African History...
a brief note on the Intellectual history of Africa
the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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the Jabarti diaspora of North-Eastern Africa.
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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TheCollector
Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932)
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller...
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An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller description:
Friedrick Mader, "the German Jules Verne" according to Sam Moskowitz, was a popular author of fantastic romances in post-World War One Germany. DISTANT WORLDS is his only novel...
TheCollector
Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January
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over a year ago
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TheCollector
What Is the Good Friday Agreement?
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Flashbak
Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time...
5 months ago
“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time when people are so baffled, so in need of help.” – Käthe Kollwitz diary entry, December 1922 Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) made over 100 self-portraits of her …...
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Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
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7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Do You Listen Well?
Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
TheCollector
Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation?
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Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg?
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King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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Who Were the Axis Powers?
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Should We Navel Gaze?
Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
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Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
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There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies...
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There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies show up in the selection committees of Stockholm.
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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.
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What Government Governs Best?
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
a year ago
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
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The Cyclops
A Misunderstood Monster?
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TheCollector
Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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Trying to Understand...
It's War, Josep, But Not As We Know It
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
over a year ago
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb)...
a year ago
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
Classical Wisdom
What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
TheCollector
Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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Hundred Rabbits
Dry Toilet Installation
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer...
over a year ago
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer it over the ready-made models. We learned tons doing it, and now our toilet is perfectly suited to our space. The pandemic has pushed more people into boat and van living (to travel...
TheCollector
5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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History Today Feed
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
a year ago
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
TheCollector
First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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Flashbak
Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who...
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These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who spent 32 years as a patient of the Hospital for Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders in Branice, Poland. Admitted to the hospital’s Psychopathological Art Expression workshop in...
Flashbak
William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads....
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“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
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The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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Flashbak
The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from...
5 months ago
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from Japan. It’s a subject we’ve visited before with the Yokai Horrors from the 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll. Thought to originate in the mid 1800s, the artist behind the Kaikidan...
TheCollector
How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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TheCollector
Who Was the Only U.S. President to Serve More Than Two Terms?
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African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom.
government in central Africa.
a year ago
government in central Africa.
TheCollector
First Nations of the Canadian Subarctic: A Brief History
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What Is Nestorianism?
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of...
a year ago
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Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It
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How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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Trying to Understand...
And Now for Something Completely Different.
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How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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What is the Eye of Ra?
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When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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Classical Wisdom
The First Philosopher?
And the Boundless Universe
6 months ago
And the Boundless Universe
Flashbak
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‘...
TheCollector
Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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What Were the Major Battles and Conflicts of the Medieval Period?
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
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Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
TheCollector
Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
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7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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Overcoming Bias
Beware Policy Abstraction
The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly...
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The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly confirm that the issues focused on there were biased in two key ways.
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Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
a year ago
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
TheCollector
Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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CrimethInc.
The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power...
2 weeks ago
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power between various factions with various degrees of support from Russia, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. Over the past few days, however, taking advantage of the ways that Iran...
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Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
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(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one of the most consequential US elections in modern history.) The story of a Pennsylvania Dutch classic dessert is as colorful as its unusual name… In 1517, Martin Luther began a...
Flashbak
Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach,...
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The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
Flashbak
Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the...
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Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
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6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
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Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical...
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In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
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Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?
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Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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What Would a Day in the Public Baths of Ancient Rome Look Like?
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6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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African History...
The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone...
3 months ago
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone monuments in Africa south of Nubia.
TheCollector
Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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Classical Wisdom
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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5 Illustrated Stories by Shaun Tan That You Should Know
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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5 Most Influential Blues Musicians of All Time
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History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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When Was D-Day?
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Classical Wisdom
Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
a year ago
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
TheCollector
Principality of Sealand: The Smallest Nation in the World?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking...
a year ago
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
Flashbak
A Look at London in 1975 with English Eccentrics and Mr Whippy
It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by...
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It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by shopping for a Mr Whippy ice cream on Gypsy Hill, south of the River Thames. Or maybe a cider or Brandy Alexander lolly is more to your taste? You can see the full range of British...
TheCollector
Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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History Today Feed
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
TheCollector
9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art
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Global Inequality...
There is no exit for dictators
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an...
a year ago
In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all...
TheCollector
Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
a year ago
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
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What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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What Was the Kido Butai?
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7-Foot Hermes Statue Found in Ancient Roman Sewer
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What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion?
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
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The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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What Is Marie Antoinette Syndrome?
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Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power?
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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The Electoral College Explained
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Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
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Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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African History...
The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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Beware the Lides of March
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TheCollector
Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
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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!
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5 Transformative Leaders That Shaped British History
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The 5 Most Ridiculous Ways the CIA Tried & Failed to Kill Fidel Castro
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Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover
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Newest Banksy Mural Guarded After Vandalism
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How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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British Museum to Digitalize Its Collection
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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Classical Wisdom
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The Early Years of Jesus
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
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Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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Patterns in Humanity
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I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people of science, and then I put it in context with other indicators of historical development. The data together show that West Europe had developmentally surpassed the rest of the world...
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
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Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
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Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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What Are the Key Influences That Shaped the French New Wave?
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Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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Discover Pompeii’s Famous Mosaics
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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African History...
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plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars
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7 Great Paris Museums Beyond the Louvre
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What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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Hidden History
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These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Dress Codes?
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Are standards elevating or elitist?
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Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions
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Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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