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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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6 months ago
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Dreams of Space -...
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Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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Tjaart’s Substack
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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Open Culture
The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
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TheCollector
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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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Flashbak
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What Are the Origins of Santa Claus?
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How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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A Collection of...
Continues the Hiatus, 2024
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3 months ago
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6 of History’s Biggest Traitors
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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Flashbak
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Flashbak
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African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
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A Wasting Asset?
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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History Today Feed
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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Dreams of Space -...
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Continuing with a bit of a flying saucer theme today is The Boy Who Discovered The Earth. It is a...
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Hundred Rabbits
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Summary Of Changes
Adelie, added image maps, animation controls, and wrote a guide....
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4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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Beethoven and War: Soundtrack to the Napoleonic Conflict
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CrimethInc.
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres...
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Flashbak
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When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those...
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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History Today Feed
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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First, do lots of harm.
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Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
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History Today Feed
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Flashbak
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How Did the Tudors Celebrate Christmas?
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Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
a year ago
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History Today Feed
The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:29
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Classical Wisdom
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The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
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TheCollector
Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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History Today Feed
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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JamesHoare
Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
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TheCollector
Deadly Wildfires Devastate Los Angeles Art Community
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Trying to Understand...
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It's just that some people don't realise it.
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TheCollector
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History Today Feed
Moving With the Times?
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
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Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
History Today Feed
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
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JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
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Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
“Four Dead in Ohio”: The Kent State Shootings
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History Today Feed
‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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JamesHoare
Mon, 02/26/2024 - 11:07
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Global Inequality...
The third framing
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TheCollector
First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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Classical Wisdom
Three Cabins Left
Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
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TheCollector
444 Days: The Story of the Iran Hostage Crisis
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Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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10 of Rosalba Carriera’s Best Artworks
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What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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Who Was Martin Luther? (Bio, Ideas, Legacy)
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History Today Feed
The Women’s War Breaks Out
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
Flashbak
How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
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TheCollector
Rijksmuseum Begins Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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Louis XIV: History’s Longest-Reigning Monarch
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Classical Wisdom
Three New Year’s Resolutions from Epicurus
An Epic Start to the New Year
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Should We Own Stuff?
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The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a month ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
TheCollector
Tattoos in the Bible: Can Christians Modify Their Bodies?
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TheCollector
A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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TheCollector
Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000 employees lost their jobs. And another part of old New York went the way of the Automat and the Times Square peep show. The New York State Legislature enacted its first off-track betting...
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Hypnosis: Is it Magic or Science?
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
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The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
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Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
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The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
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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...
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What Is the History of Valentine’s Day?
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Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
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The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac Sprague (1811–1895) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter. He was a self-taught landscape, botanical and ornithological painter. Sprague served...
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Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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How Has the Tower of London Changed Over Time?
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‘Just Stop Oil’ Protestors Cover Stonehenge in Powder Paint
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The 3 Partitions of Poland (& Lithuania): Polarized Peoples
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What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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Digitization Reveals Cathedral’s Hidden Medieval Wall Paintings
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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What Was the Teapot Dome Scandal?
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London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
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Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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When the US Senate Put Comic Books on Trial
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
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over a year ago
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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Global Inequality...
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The Assassination of Malcolm X
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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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10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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Germanus of Auxerre and His Connection to Arthurian Legends
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How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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The Performance is Over
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Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
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Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor
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The Life and Work of Pheidias
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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The Sword Is Mightier...
...than the pen. In Ukraine anyway.
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...than the pen. In Ukraine anyway.
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What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples)
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
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Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
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World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cape Town?
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
6 months ago
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some have been drawn on the printed photo with pen, others form part of the image itself. The use of bows and arrows by humans predates recorded history and is common to most...
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How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence European Art?
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Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
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Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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... and the Fall of the Republic
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10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
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I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
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The Antikythera Mechanism
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How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
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Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
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Heracles Captures the Cretan Bull: The Hero’s Seventh Labor
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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Who Invented the Ukulele?
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London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
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“As long as I am alive, I will be a photographer. I will never retire” – Dorothy Bohm Dorothy Bohm (22 June 1924 – 15 March 2023) was born Dorothea Israelit in June 1924 in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), to a Jewish German-speaking family. In 1939 she was...
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The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
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In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper reported that “The king shows himself only once a year to his people, going out of his court on horseback, accompanied by three or four hundred noblemen on horseback.”
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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What Was the Massachusetts 54th Regiment?
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Does Marcus Matter?
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Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963)
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an...
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This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
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Dreams of Space -...
Building Reading Skills (1951)
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an...
a year ago
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
African History...
A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894)
Urbanism in the forest region.
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Urbanism in the forest region.
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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Yayoi Kusama Unveils New Public Sculpture in London
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Why Is Turkey so Important on Thanksgiving?
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Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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Mazes and Labyrinths: An Illustrated History (1922)
“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” –...
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“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” – Philip K. Dick, VALIS William H. Matthews leads us through his 1922 book Mazes and Labyrinths from his home in Ruislip in the English county of Middlesex. Compiled shortly...
Dreams of Space -...
Hombres Del Espacio (1960)
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
over a year ago
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
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What Would Socrates Do?
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Christians often ask themselves, as a guide to living, “What would Jesus do?” In her new book Open Socrates, my podcast-cohost Agnes Callard suggests we instead ask “What would Socrates do?”
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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How the Nazis Rescued Benito Mussolini: The Gran Sasso Raid
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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Emotions: Better Out or In?
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Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
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Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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The Vela Incident: Nuclear Bombs vs. Asteroid Collisions
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7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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an African portrait of an African society
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Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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Paul Cézanne Work Sold by Christie’s
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What Is Second Timothy About?
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When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire?
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Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
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Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
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Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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Radio Caroline, the Pirate Radio Ship That Rocked the British Music World (1965)
Nowadays musicians can reach hundreds, thousands, sometimes millions of listeners with a few,...
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Nowadays musicians can reach hundreds, thousands, sometimes millions of listeners with a few, usually free, online services and a minimal grasp of technology. That’s not to say there aren’t still economic barriers aplenty for the struggling artist, but true independence is not an...
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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Hidden History
The 1968 Utah Sheep Kill
In 1968, a malfunctioning nerve gas test at the Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah killed several...
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In 1968, a malfunctioning nerve gas test at the Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah killed several thousand sheep and provoked an outcry. In March 1968, researchers at the Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah were scheduled to perform three experiments involving a lethal nerve gas known as...
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