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I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
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The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
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With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
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How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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History Today Feed
How the CCP is Closing China
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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The Myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Great Flood in Greek Mythology
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Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels
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Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
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How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
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What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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Classical Wisdom
Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
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Akhenaten: 7 Secrets of Egypt’s Heretic Pharaoh
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Classical Wisdom
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks
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Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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Patterns in Humanity
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Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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See The Rolling Stones 1966 Tour Program
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In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay and the New Jaywalkers and Ike & Tina Turner. Formed in 1962, The Stones had their first number one in ‘64 and in 1966 had released what was to be their breakthrough album an...
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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International Art Trafficking Operation Recovers 6,400 Objects
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Dreams of Space -...
The Boy Who Discovered the Earth (1955)
Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
3 months ago
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A "Space Ship to the Moon" is your present for a new year. I really like the illustrations in this book. The story is OK but the visions of spacecraft, a space station and mining on the Moon are worth seeing. This is a relatively low cost book used so if you like...
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Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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Audrey Flack, Pioneer of Photorealism, Dies at 93
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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Do You Listen Well?
Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
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Who are the Pioneers of the Beat Generation?
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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Global Inequality...
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Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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Dreams of Space -...
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Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
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How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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4 Villains From the Arthurian Legends Who Really Existed
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... and the Fall of the Republic
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8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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History Today Feed
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Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
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6 months ago
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
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A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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History Today Feed
How the South Became Republican
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England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
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8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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Wed, 02/07/2024 - 09:45
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An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
Summary Of Changes
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9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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Announcing The Beautiful Idea : A New Podcast
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In their own...
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Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the...
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From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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Who Was Achilles? Greek Mythology’s Greatest Warrior
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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Hundred Rabbits
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
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7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon...
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a...
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How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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Classical Wisdom
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Plato and Atlantis
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How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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Who Was George Eliot?
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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History Today Feed
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
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TheCollector
What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics?
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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Trying to Understand...
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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History Today Feed
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
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History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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Who Is the Mystery Mummy of Tomb KV55? (4 Theories)
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Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
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Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:08
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On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
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Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:08
Trying to Understand...
Dealing With Foreigners ...
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a year ago
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TheCollector
Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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History Today Feed
A History of Phantom Pain
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j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
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Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
TheCollector
What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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6 Assassinations That Changed History
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10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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5 Strange Election Systems Around the World
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Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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Flashbak
Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
6 months ago
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps
“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that...
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a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
6 months ago
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Classical Wisdom
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TheCollector
Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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Classical Wisdom
Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
a year ago
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6 Things You Should Know About Pop Art
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Classical Wisdom
Magna Graecia
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as...
a year ago
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its...
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What Was Kristallnacht? The Horrors of the Night of Broken Glass
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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Who Was George Hodel?
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Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2 months ago
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
Summary Of Changes
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TheCollector
What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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9 Interesting Facts about Medusa
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Who Were the Wright Brothers?
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20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome
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African History...
A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894)
Urbanism in the forest region.
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TheCollector
Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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Flashbak
Watch TV-CBGB – A Punk Sitcom From 1981
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews,...
8 months ago
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews, comedy skits, and live performances”. Stuart Newman, a member of the The Roustabouts, one of the groups featured on the show – along with Idiot Savant, The Hard, Jo Marshall, Shrapnel...
TheCollector
What Makes a Celt & Did They Ever Inhabit Britannia?
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
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Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it presented creations by such couturiers as Louise Chéruit, Premet (best known for La Garconne, or The Flapper, a black dress with a white collar and cuffs introduced in 1923, Philip et...
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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How Were the Twelve Tribes of Israel Formed?
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Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
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László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
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10 Unique Pigments That You Have Never Heard Of
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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10 Historic Small Towns in Arizona You Must Visit
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What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop?
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England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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African History...
The textile trade of pre-colonial Africa
In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana),...
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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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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England
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10 Must-Visit Places Around the World for History Buffs
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Cars of Britain in the 1970s
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of...
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In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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10 Incredible Artworks by Félicien Rops
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What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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Brushing for Britain
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TheCollector
Aristotle on Logic: Deduction, Syllogisms, and Truth
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, updated jib cars, and added new recommendations on the...
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Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
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Into the Waste Land
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8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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7 Famous Surrealist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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10 Charming Medieval Villages in Austria to Visit
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Modernism: The Genre Explained in 5 Facts and 14 Artworks
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What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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Flashbak
The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
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For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the pointy guitar, the hair, the band, the drive, the tights, the most piercing scream outside a Pee Wee Herman meets Cher Christmas convention. And you also had the hair. In the 1980s …...
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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The End of Power Projection?
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We can't get there from here, anymore.
TheCollector
Heracles Slays the Stymphalian Birds: The Hero’s Sixth Labor
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Overcoming Bias
Decision Selection Bias
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As futarchy interest and activity are way up lately, this seems a good time to elaborate on one of its most technical issues, one that @metaproph3t also discussed recently: decision selection bias.
A Collection of...
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For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in...
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For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. As moderns, we are so familiar with the way that states function that the far older systems of non-state organization and...
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Should poor countries remain poor?
Stock vs flow approach.
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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8 Spots for Exploring Indigenous Art in the American Southwest
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That's The Truth?
In politics, well, it depends.
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In politics, well, it depends.
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Wuxing: What Are the Five Elements of Chinese Philosophy?
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What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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Hundred Rabbits
doldrumming
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
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Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
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Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay?
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Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
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How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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First Nations of the Canadian Subarctic: A Brief History
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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Res Obscura
Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude
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At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
Dreams of Space -...
Santa and The Space Men
It has been a while but here is a strange Christmas post for you. Something about Santa and Flying...
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It has been a while but here is a strange Christmas post for you. Something about Santa and Flying Saucers seems to go together like White wine and Cracker Jack. Sort of sweet and tangy and gets your attention.
Santa and the Space Men is a play for children about how Santa is...
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The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
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I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
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Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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The Death of Literary Fiction.... And its Resurrection?
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Flashbak
One Last Look at the Hotel where ‘Trainspotting’, ‘The Big Man’, ‘Taggart’ and Other Shows Were...
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You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in Glasgow like a ‘great carbuncle’, but you have probably seen parts of its interiors from films like Trainspotting (the circular room used as a backdrop for the drug scene with Keith...
Hidden History
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
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Who was Thorkell the Tall?
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Wed, 11/27/2024 - 10:20
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TheCollector
‘Spiral Jetty’ Added to National Register of Historic Places
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Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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Open Culture
The Scene That Reveals the Beauty of Classic Hollywood Cinema
1939 is widely considered the greatest year in Hollywood history. Back then, writes 1939: The Year...
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1939 is widely considered the greatest year in Hollywood history. Back then, writes 1939: The Year in Movies author Tom Flannery, the so-called “Big Eight” major American studios “had a combined 590 actors, 114 directors and 340 writers under contract, each of whom worked an...
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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A "career book' today to inspire young people to pursue engineering. This is a little later in the space race but they did have a clear plan laid out for creating the engineers they might need. The school library was usually full of these career books to inspire academic...
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Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
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Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained
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5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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3 Beautiful Places in the South of England Tourists Neglect
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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What Are the 8 Best Art Attractions in Budapest? (local tips)
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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US Returns 600 Stolen Artifacts to Italy
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Arguing with the Dead
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Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
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Arguing with the Dead
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Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
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Juan Rulfo: Whispers & Myths From Mexico’s Most Enigmatic Writer
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What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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10 of Rosalba Carriera’s Best Artworks
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Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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CrimethInc.
Sacrificial Violence and Retribution
In the following analysis, we explore the responses to two different extrajudicial killings as a way...
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In the following analysis, we explore the responses to two different extrajudicial killings as a way to understand the different forms of violence that are coming to the fore in our society right now. In the appendix, we offer an incomplete roundup of various responses to the...
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History Today Review of the Year
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Thu, 12/28/2023 - 00:00
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Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
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How Mexico Fought Franco
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Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
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Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
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10 Must-Visit Utah Ghost Towns With a Rich History
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Flashbak
The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone,...
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“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter ...
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...
11 months ago
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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10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93
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Louis Wain’s Cat Paintings Head to Auction
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Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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A complete history of the old city of Gao ca. 700-1898.
Journal of African cities: chapter 12
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Journal of African cities: chapter 12
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10 Artworks by Yoko Ono You Should Know
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