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Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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Van Gogh & Gauguin: A Fiery Friendship Between Two Post-Impressionists
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Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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The Mystery of Crazy Horse: His Life & Legacy
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
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This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
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Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part II: Romans, Assemble!
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The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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5 Illustrated Stories by Shaun Tan That You Should Know
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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CrimethInc.
The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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Who Are the Most Important Christian Figures After the Bible?
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What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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Open Culture
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We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
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The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia
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The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul
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How Foreshadowing Shapes Cinema and Storytelling
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The Lost Years of Jesus
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Wuxing: What Are the Five Elements of Chinese Philosophy?
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Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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Flashbak
1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
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5 Military Geniuses From History
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5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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6 Misconceptions About Biblical Angels
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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The History of Underwear: Loincloths, Petticoats, Boxers, & Briefs
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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Cold Snapshots – Vintage Holiday Fun in the Snow and Ice
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Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793
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What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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Who Was Johann Gottlieb Fichte?
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4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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Who’s in the Tomb?
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How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos
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What’s the Best Time to Visit the Colosseum?
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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
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Does Karma Exist?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her...
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How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show
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6 Famous Artists Who Loved Cats
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978)
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Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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What Was Organization Todt?
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Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It...
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
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Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
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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...
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Gods Vs Titans
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Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
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Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy
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The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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Dreams of Space -...
Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the...
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Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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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...
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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
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I: Aristocrats, Retainers and...
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in...
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The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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10 Incredible Examples of European Symbolist Art
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Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush
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Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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France’s Long March Against Racism
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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government in central Africa.
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government in central Africa.
TheCollector
The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
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Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
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Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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What makes a good friend?
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
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Should Death Concern Us?
How can we deal with the inevitable... before the inevitable deals with us?
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TheCollector
Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
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Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
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History Today Feed
‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
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Mudslinging & Negative Campaigning: A Look at US Election Dirty Tricks
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St. Nick and Saturnalia
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African History...
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The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on a global scale in which African travelers were active agents.
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...
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
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
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At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
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The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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Res Obscura
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Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I...
over a year ago
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History Today Feed
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
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a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history
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plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2023
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a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
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The Value of Wills to Historians
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Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
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Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
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10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case
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What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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What Are the Romance Languages?
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Cecil John Rhodes: Life and Legacy of a British Imperialist
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Overcoming Bias
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a year ago
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When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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Iakim Volkov’s Wedding: An Illustration of a Complicated History
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Who Were the Most Important Disciples of Jesus Christ?
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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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...
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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist
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6 Things You Should Know About Pop Art
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Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
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What Are the Origins of Santa Claus?
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History Today Feed
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
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Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
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State and society on Africa's largest island.
a year ago
State and society on Africa's largest island.
TheCollector
Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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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
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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Thu, 10/31/2024 - 09:25
TheCollector
What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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King Stephen of Blois: England’s Anarchist King
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The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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Flashbak
Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
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TheCollector
The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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Hundred Rabbits
tools ecosystem
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In...
over a year ago
How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
In 2016, we left Canada, armed with our two iPhones and 2 MacBooks Pros. We didn't know the wattage of any of the devices we owned, and even less about the amount of solar needed to...
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Frank Stewart’s Portraits of The American Journey – A Story of Jazz And Justice
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Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
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Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
TheCollector
“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas?
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Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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Frick Collection Announces April 2025 Reopening
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Who Is Kiki Smith?
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What Can You Expect to See at the Spring Temple Buddha?
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Michel Ney: The Bravest of the Brave Among Napoleon’s Generals
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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History Today Feed
King John’s Lost Treasure
King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
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King John’s Lost Treasure
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August
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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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
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The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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Artemisia of Caria
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Who Were the Landsknechts?
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Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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A Collection of...
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7 months ago
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7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Hundred Rabbits
Working offgrid efficiently
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the...
over a year ago
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
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Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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UK Gallery to Recreate “Groundbreaking” 1907 Exhibition
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
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JamesHoare
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
JamesHoare
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
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JamesHoare
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“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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Silvio Berlusconi’s Worthless Art Collection
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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Trying to Understand...
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Flashbak
Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’
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yesterday
The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
Classical Wisdom
How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
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