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Beware the Lides of March
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die?
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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5 of the Most Important Magical Realist Writers
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Hidden Figure Identified in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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Dreams of Space -...
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Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter
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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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What Is Solipsism?
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Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
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13 English Words with Greek Origins
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What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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A Colossal Ramses II Statue Pieces Uncovered
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What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing...
over a year ago
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing (published last week) about whether beards are finally ‘over’, and I thought it would be interesting to reflect on some of this. Since re-emerging around 2014, gaining popularity...
Flashbak
Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
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Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
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5 Influential African Leaders of the 20th Century
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Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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What’s the History of Gin?
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How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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Wrong Side of...
American polarisation
The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
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The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
African History...
a brief note on African travel literature in history
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
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a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
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Where Did King Arthur Fight His Legendary Battles?
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Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
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Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
3 months ago
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
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Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
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The Terrible Loneliness of Genius
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What Are the Main Sources of Knowledge?
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Kent
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
a year ago
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
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10 Surrealist Sculptors You Should Know
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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...
11 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...
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Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the...
a year ago
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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10 Women Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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Unveiling Romeo and Juliet: A Guide to Shakespeare’s Timeless Tragedy
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Overcoming Bias
Futarchy Futurism
I have often taken on the role of econ futurist, analyzing the social consequences of particular...
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I have often taken on the role of econ futurist, analyzing the social consequences of particular future techs.
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
2 months ago
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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Philosophy of War: 3 Influential Theorists
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Olympics Special
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What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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Collector Chris Levett Is Selling His Huge Trove of Ancient Armor
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
The Vienna Secession is Founded
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Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
African History...
Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
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Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
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Catching Nessie on Film
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Catching Nessie on Film
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History Today Review of the Year
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Thu, 12/28/2023 - 00:00
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History Today Review of the Year
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit
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How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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NATO's Phantom Armies.
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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When Ukraine Is Over ...
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How will they turn out the lights?
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The Ancient World’s Greatest War
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The Ancient World’s Greatest War
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Liberation of the Oppressed: What Is Liberation Theology?
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Hell in the Bible: Eternal Damnation vs. Annihilationism
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The Eye of Every Storm : Anarchist Response to Hurricane Helene
At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30...
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At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30 inches of rainfall over two days when an unnamed storm collided with Hurricane Helene over the mountains of Southern Appalachia. The resulting catastrophe laid waste to the entire...
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Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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‘Ain Ghazal: One of the Oldest Places in Human Civilization
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
9 months ago
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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The World’s Most Prestigious Art Fairs (By Continent/Region)
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We are lost in a haunted wood.
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We are lost in a haunted wood.
Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
a year ago
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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How Carl Jung Revolutionized Psychology: Into the Shadow-Land
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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Open Culture
Watch 950 Weather Reports Presented by David Lynch, Straight from His Los Angeles Home
Los Angeles is hardly a city known for its varied weather, but if one lives there long enough, one...
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Los Angeles is hardly a city known for its varied weather, but if one lives there long enough, one does become highly attuned to its many subtleties. (Granted, some of the local phenomena involved, like the notorious Santa Ana winds, can produce far-from-subtle effects.) The late...
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What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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Open Culture
Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens...
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The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
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Study Shows Real Art Stimulates the Brain More Than a Copy
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World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
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Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mother of Rome
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Flashbak
Let Them Eat Cake: 28 Sweet Birthday Cake Snapshots
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a...
a year ago
According to the Greeks of ancient time – it was they who first put candles on a cake to mark a birthday – you need to blow them out in a single puff for the smoke to carry your wishes to god, in order for them to come true. Yep, that’s where you’ve been … Continue reading "Let...
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...
over a year ago
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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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, added 100r logo to splash screen on the rom.
100r.co, added a new page: diy carbonation system. Updated Saving fuel, Engine rebuild and...
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Discover the Klondike Gold Rush: Frozen Riches
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Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
a year ago
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
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Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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When Did the Korean War Start?
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Banned Book Week Begins...
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Banned Book Week Begins...
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How Are Art and Science Related?
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Do You Believe in Magic?
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
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Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
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Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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Far Out Images from Johann Zahn’s Oculus Artificialis (1685)
“A complete treatment of the construction and use of lensed optical instruments. Presented in three...
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“A complete treatment of the construction and use of lensed optical instruments. Presented in three fundamentals, that is, bases: the physical, the mathematical, and the practical or mechanical” – Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus sive Telescopium The German student of light...
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5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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Louis XIV: History’s Longest-Reigning Monarch
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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The History of Porto & 21 Amazing Historic Sites You Should Visit
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