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The Mother of Rome
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7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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Brushing for Britain
Brushing for Britain
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A Collection of...
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Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
2 months ago
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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Res Obscura
I talked to Terry Gross!
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled...
11 months ago
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What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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Where Are the Best Travel Destinations for Shakespeare Fans?
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Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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Juan Rulfo: Whispers & Myths From Mexico’s Most Enigmatic Writer
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
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The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
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Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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Trying to Understand...
Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
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Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance
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travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
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Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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What Was the Oregon Trail? History and Legacy
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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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The Art of the Interesting
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Niagara Falls?
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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a brief note on themes in African art.
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Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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The “Arch”: Who Was Desmond Tutu?
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What Is the Meaning of Utopia?
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Dido: Queen of Carthage
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Fall of Berlin: How WWII Ended in Europe
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Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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The Diversity Paradox.
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10 months ago
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
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The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest
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The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
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The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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The Ancient Egyptian Game of Mehen
Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But...
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Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But recent study has completely changed the way we think about this game. History In 1861, French archaeologists Auguste Mariette and Jacques de Morgan found a tomb at Saqqara that was...
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Art of the Etruscans
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What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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Who Was Vivienne Westwood?
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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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Sorites Paradox: Why Traditional Logic Is Not Omnipotent
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Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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Before Banksy: London Graffiti in the 1980s
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the...
a year ago
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the right people. Most of of it got washed off walls or knocked down as the buildings it decorated made way for flats. Most of it wasn’t all that good. And because London graffiti was a...
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How Did Descartes View Animals?
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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Are Propaganda and Politics Inevitable Bedfellows?
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What Is the Historical Context of Easter?
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Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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Three years late, but historians are always late
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When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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Overcoming Bias
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2 months ago
Vehicles like cars, planes, and boats generally need a) an engine to push them forward, b) steering to direct their motions, and c) a driver to manage both.
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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a...
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“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
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This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the triumph of the Roman legions in the third and second century over the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we looked at some of the operational and strategic...
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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Free Will Vs Determinism
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A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
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Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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Belgian Revolution: The Independence Movement That Surprised Europe
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6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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Middle Kingdom Pyramids: The Lesser Known Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926
These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François...
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Why Did Remedios Varo Paint So Many Self-Portraits?
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What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
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Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
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The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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Art Basel 2024 Opens to the Public: Here Are Some of Its Highlights
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African History...
Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom.
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems...
a year ago
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
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The Phantom of Polarisation
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Do people actually disagree that much?
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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‘D-Day Has Come’
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Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art...
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Dr Alun Withey
Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the...
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Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the spirit! A good holiday is generally viewed as a tonic, and holiday company advertisements extol the virtues of ‘getting away’, encountering new places, people and cultures and (if...
Dreams of Space -...
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Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
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a revolution with a contested legacy.
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a revolution with a contested legacy.
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7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Summary Of Changes
100r.co, updated jib cars, and added new recommendations on the...
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Rijksmuseum Begins Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’
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The Life and Work of Pheidias
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely...
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Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961.
Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
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How Did Hokusai & Hiroshige Become so Famous?
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
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How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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[Ebook] The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
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Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran...
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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5 Deadliest Sword Designs
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7 months ago
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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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...
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Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims
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What the Moon Is Like (1963)
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are...
a year ago
Happy 2023, this book is 60 years old this year and still seems as fresh as ever since we are exploring the Moon again.
What the Moon is Like is another book by the children's science writer Franklyn Branley. He wrote many children's non-fiction books with a variety of...
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10 Must-Visit East Coast Historic Landmarks
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The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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The textile trade of pre-colonial Africa
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In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana), carrying more than 6,000 pieces of cloth which was to be exchanged for gold.
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Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
12 months ago
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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TheCollector
How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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TheCollector
10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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TheCollector
Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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Classical Wisdom
Does Karma Exist?
Does what goes around come around?
8 months ago
Does what goes around come around?
TheCollector
Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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TheCollector
What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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TheCollector
Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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History Today Feed
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 -...
9 months ago
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 - 09:54
Classical Wisdom
Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
2 months ago
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
TheCollector
The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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TheCollector
What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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TheCollector
How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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TheCollector
Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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TheCollector
What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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Classical Wisdom
The Roman Socrates
The Feminist Stoic?
a year ago
TheCollector
Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ Heads to Auction
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3 months ago
TheCollector
British Museum Receives Its Most Valuable Gift Ever
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Classical Wisdom
What is the “Mind”?
And How Do We Learn?
a year ago
Flashbak
Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank...
10 months ago
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
TheCollector
Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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TheCollector
Andrew & Rachel Jackson: A Scandalous Marriage & the 1828 Election
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a month ago
TheCollector
10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire
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6 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the...
10 months ago
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
TheCollector
Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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a year ago
TheCollector
End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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8 months ago
Wrong Side of...
The Scottish Play
Canon Club podcast: Macbeth
a month ago
Canon Club podcast: Macbeth
TheCollector
How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
6 days ago
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
TheCollector
How Did Socrates Die?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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a year ago
TheCollector
Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition: What is an Active Life?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
The Value of Wills to Historians
The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
8 months ago
The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
TheCollector
What Was the First Written Language?
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4 months ago
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
Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
And the Palace where it was found...
a year ago
And the Palace where it was found...
TheCollector
What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
2 months ago
The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:07
TheCollector
Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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a year ago
TheCollector
Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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TheCollector
Who Was Ho Chi Minh?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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TheCollector
What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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6 months ago
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.
TheCollector
Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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12 months ago
TheCollector
The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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3 months ago
Trying to Understand...
L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
Another of my essays in French.
a week ago
Another of my essays in French.
TheCollector
What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Sparta and… Scotland?
Laconic wit through the centuries
a year ago
Laconic wit through the centuries
TheCollector
4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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a year ago
TheCollector
The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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TheCollector
Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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TheCollector
Unveiling Romeo and Juliet: A Guide to Shakespeare’s Timeless Tragedy
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Prevent Character Assassination?
Corruption in the Ancient World
9 months ago
Corruption in the Ancient World
Classical Wisdom
Do You Need Children to Care About the Future?
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
4 months ago
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
TheCollector
Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Electoral College Explained
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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TheCollector
15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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TheCollector
What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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TheCollector
How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Is an Antipope?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Michelangelo Scribble Sells For $200,000
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8 months ago
Flashbak
American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles...
7 months ago
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
TheCollector
6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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TheCollector
10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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5 months ago
TheCollector
How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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6 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Let's Hear It For The "Underlying Causes."
Here's the answer. What was the question again?
a year ago
Here's the answer. What was the question again?
TheCollector
Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The KGB After Stalin
The KGB After Stalin
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
a year ago
The KGB After Stalin
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
TheCollector
Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Baron Von Steuben: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell During the USA’s Founding
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Art Philanthropy in the US Depends on Prestige
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The Great Emu War: When Australians Lost to Flightless Birds
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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5 months ago
Hidden History
The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had...
3 weeks ago
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had its origin some 400 years ago in early attempts by the Shoguns to ban gambling and European playing cards. History When the Portuguese arrived in Japan in 1543, they established...
History Today Feed
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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TheCollector
Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
The Indian Citizenship Act
The Indian Citizenship Act
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
6 months ago
The Indian Citizenship Act
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
TheCollector
7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko: A Revolutionary on 2 Continents
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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a year ago
Flashbak
The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than...
6 months ago
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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a month ago
History Today Feed
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
4 months ago
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Eusebius?
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11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Wages Of Fear
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
8 months ago
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
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