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11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
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The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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Another Of My Essays In French
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What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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3 Beautiful Places in the South of England Tourists Neglect
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What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
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Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
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What Is the Suspense Paradox in the Philosophy of Film?
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Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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Isadora Duncan: 12 Facts About the Pioneer of Modern Dance
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American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum
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Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
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An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
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How the South Became Republican
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Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
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A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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History of the Automobile: How Did We Get to Electric Vehicles?
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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s...
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World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
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Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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West Virginia Bill to Prosecute Museums for “Obscene” Artifacts?
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1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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TheCollector
College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso: 6 Notes on Friendship and Rivalry
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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Overcoming Bias
Beware Policy Abstraction
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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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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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A Fistful of Clockwork Oranges
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Slavoj Zizek on the 2 Types of Violence
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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Res Obscura
Margaret Mead, Technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide
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Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
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Flashbak
Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
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Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
Trying to Understand...
One Of My Essays In Dutch.
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and...
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I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
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6 Haunted Historical Sites That Will Scare Your Socks Off
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8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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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.
Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide in the United States: a summary
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Sufism in the Ottoman Balkans
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
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What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness?
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10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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10 National and State Parks in the US Where You Can See Ancient Redwoods
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Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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How Were the Twelve Tribes of Israel Formed?
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Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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9 Interesting Facts about Medusa
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Wrong Side of...
Fellow believers or fellow citizens?
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Liberalism dies in darkness
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Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
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“I try not to present villages in a romantic way’ – Jindřich Štreit Jindřich Štreit (born 5 September 1946 in Vsetín) is a Czech photographer best known for his documentary photography. He concentrates on documenting the rural life and people of Czech villages. His...
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
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Trying to Understand...
L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
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Another of my essays in French.
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More Banksy Animals Appear Across London
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10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
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As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most likely die in the end. In the final instalment of the four-strong Joe and Petunia series, the British couple illustrate the dangers driving on bad tyres by driving into a tree. ...
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Who Were the Allied Powers?
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The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
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On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various times by Morris, John Prine, and Marianne Faithfull.
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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Who Are the Most Famous Sorceresses of Greek Mythology?
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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History Today Feed
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
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How Does the Electoral College Work?
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Discover the Lost Culture of San Agustín in Colombia
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Classical Wisdom
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What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation?
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What Is the History of Halloween?
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Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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What Was the Third Council of Constantinople?
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Res Obscura
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TheCollector
Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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Classical Wisdom
Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay?
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Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
TheCollector
Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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Flashbak
Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
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Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an Alice Thr0ugh The Looking Glass are so much about the food. Little surprise then to discover The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook: A Culinary Diversion by John Fisher, first published...
Flashbak
Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
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“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883–April 10, 1931) published the collection Twenty Drawings, the first and only time a selection of his paintings had appeared in print....
TheCollector
Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of the Old world
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
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plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
TheCollector
Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving on the Second Monday of October?
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6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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Hundred Rabbits
an island to oneself
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things...
over a year ago
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
Many of the...
Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
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I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
Classical Wisdom
Should Drugs be Criminalized?
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
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Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
TheCollector
U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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Classical Wisdom
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What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
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What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Auctioned for $6 Million
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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10 Curious Facts About Johnny Cash
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The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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Discordianism: 4 Facts about the Bizarre Religious System
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Art Basel 2024 Opens to the Public: Here Are Some of Its Highlights
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
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6 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: From Nun to Feminist & Literary Icon
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How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence European Art?
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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Classical Wisdom
How important are dreams?
Should we pay attention to them?
10 months ago
Should we pay attention to them?
Flashbak
Frank Stewart’s Portraits of The American Journey – A Story of Jazz And Justice
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
11 months 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
100r.co, added solar cooking experiment, making seamed box cushions, making saloon cushions, moisture prevention underliner, and board games. Updated...
TheCollector
Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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TheCollector
5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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TheCollector
How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
TheCollector
TheCollector interviewt die zeitgenössischen Künstlerin Toni Mauersberg
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African History...
A history of Grande Comore (Ngazidja) ca. 700-1900.
State and society on a cosmopolitan island
11 months ago
State and society on a cosmopolitan island
TheCollector
Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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Global Inequality...
To all the newspapers I loved
The decline and fall of the print media.
10 months ago
The decline and fall of the print media.
TheCollector
10 Architectural Landmarks You Must See in Valencia
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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
Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England
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Classical Wisdom
Greece's Forgotten Legacy
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
a year ago
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
TheCollector
10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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Classical Wisdom
No Women Allowed?
Greek Theater and Gender
3 months ago
TheCollector
Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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TheCollector
What Makes a Celt & Did They Ever Inhabit Britannia?
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TheCollector
What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest...
a year ago
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest medieval conventions, sometimes depicted in water colour with fantastic elements such as human faces. The medicinal properties and preparations of the plants. Via University...
TheCollector
First Major Survey of Georgia O’Keeffe Cityscapes Opens June 2
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TheCollector
Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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Dreams of Space -...
Beyond Mars (1960)
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
a year ago
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps in space including: solar sailing, travel to Saturn via long distance trips to the outer solar system, multi-year hibernation travel, hydroponics, and visiting other solar...
TheCollector
Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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Wrong Side of...
The Tears of Strangers are only water
On the limits of empathy
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Who Was Susan Sontag?
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England’s Museum Collections Missing More Than 1,700 Objects
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TheCollector
5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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History Today Feed
The First Anglo-Burmese War
The First Anglo-Burmese War
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
The First Anglo-Burmese War
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Investors Trying to Acquire Ex San Francisco Art Institute Building
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