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https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
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How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas?
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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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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Planet Trip (1960)
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
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Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
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Artists Rejected from Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
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Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
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We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
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What Are the Key Influences That Shaped the French New Wave?
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Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China
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Death of the King of Siam
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to...
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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The Death of A New Jersey Shopping Mall
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 4, 2023
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done...
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Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done and some syllabi written before the semester begins in earnest later this week. Also before we dive in I want to note that it appears that Patreon has been having some trouble...
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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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A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a Rear Admiral who was killed on board the Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Kidd served in both the Second World War and the Korean War. The destroyer USS Kidd was...
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Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature?
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Hundred Rabbits
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Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow?
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Who Is Pina Bausch?
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
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10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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The “Arch”: Who Was Desmond Tutu?
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How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
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The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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Architectural Wizardry: 4 Fascinating Works by Antoni Gaudi
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Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base" brings me a sense of excitement and nostalgia. In fact one of my treasures is my talking Dr. Evil Doll that says "Welcome to my moon base".
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6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
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10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know
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plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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New York City In The 1960s – A Photographer’s Love story
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For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that I love – New York City,” she says. ” On a good day, I move with the rhythms of the city and feel connected to its soul, spirit and people. The camera is the tool that allows me …...
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12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
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In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a mini-portfolio of 12 postcards. Eight are by Huja, plus four in colour by Neil Winokur and a sleeve by Ken Tisa. The postcards for maverick boutique owner Dianne Benson are lovely...
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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Dreams of Space -...
The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
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My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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African History...
The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
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At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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Global Inequality...
The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present
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China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
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What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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