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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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Who Was Carl Gustav Jung?
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What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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Why Did Rome Fall?
& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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Dr Paul Cartledge on Alexander the Great’s Tomb, Netflix & More
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Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire?
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What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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The Angolan Civil War: 26 Years of Fighting
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
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How Foreshadowing Shapes Cinema and Storytelling
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
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How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, added image maps, animation controls, and wrote a guide....
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Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
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Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
Dreams of Space -...
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This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
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TheCollector
How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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Who Was Tertullian?
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Flashbak
Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great...
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
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7 Key Beliefs and Practices From Hasidic Judaism
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Roman Empire Podcasts
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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Giorgio Agamben on the End of the Poem
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The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
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Washburn Gallery in NY Permanently Closes After Half a Century
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works
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Hundred Rabbits
goji no chaimu
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
over a year ago
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
TheCollector
5 Victorian Fashion Trends: From Flammable Skirts to Poisonous Fabrics
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Dr Alun Withey
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What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
Res Obscura
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What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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Patterns in Humanity
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10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
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Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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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 during the month of...
a year ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
Summary Of Changes
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Flashbak
A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by...
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How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists?
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Eva Perón: Is She Really a Feminist Icon?
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What Government Governs Best?
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
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Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
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How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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Classical Wisdom
The Immortals
...and the feared Persian Army
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...and the feared Persian Army
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The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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Who Was Vernon Lee?
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Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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Spartan Training
The Ultimate Regime
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Flashbak
Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
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TheCollector
Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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How A Charlie Brown Christmas, and Its Beloved Soundtrack Album, Almost Never Happened
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Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
a year ago
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
TheCollector
What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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Lost Battlefield of Alexander the Great Discovered in Türkiye
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How Leonardo da Vinci Painted The Last Supper: A Deep Dive Into a Masterpiece
When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work....
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A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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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:
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TheCollector
Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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CrimethInc.
2024: Out of the Frying Pan, into the Fire : The Year in Review
It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead....
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