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What Is Transcendentalism?
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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2 weeks ago
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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Flashbak
Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
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Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
Open Culture
Famous Architects Dress as Their Famous New York City Buildings (1931)
On January 13, 1931, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects held a ball at the Hotel Astor in New York...
yesterday
On January 13, 1931, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects held a ball at the Hotel Astor in New York City. According to an advertisement for the event, anyone who paid $15 per ticket (big money during the Depression) could see a “hilarious modern art exhibition” and things...
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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History Today Feed
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:19
TheCollector
5 Places Where You Can Enjoy Art in New York City for Free
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3 Dark Age Kings of Britain Confirmed by Archaeology
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome?
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Overcoming Bias
Decision Selection Bias
As futarchy interest and activity are way up lately, this seems a good time to elaborate on one of...
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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.
TheCollector
10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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Andromeda: The Beauty of the Mediterranean
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Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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Flashbak
Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s...
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Who Was Oswald Mosley?
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Flashbak
Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
3 months ago
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
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The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology
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History Today Feed
Highwaymen: The Road to Infamy
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Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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How to Revive Wassailing
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TheCollector
Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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444 Days: The Story of the Iran Hostage Crisis
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
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TheCollector
Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
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A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore)
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6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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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...
African History...
Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
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Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
TheCollector
Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
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John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
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“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe” – The opening lines to Paradise Lost by John Milton, illustrated by John Martin John Milton’s (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) epic poem...
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Comes the Hiatus, 2024!
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards...
3 months ago
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
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Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
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What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and white hints and pulls you in whereas colour can distract and reflect? LensCulture magazine celebrates black and white photography with is 2024 Black and White awards. “The enduring...
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Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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London Olympics and Tony Blair’s Decision on Parthenon Marbles
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Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
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over a year ago
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
TheCollector
Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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Flashbak
Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s...
8 months ago
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
History Today Feed
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
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Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:25
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TheCollector
Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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10 Must-Visit East Coast Historic Landmarks
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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
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over a year ago
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.
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Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
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What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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Classical Wisdom
Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
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Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
Flashbak
Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a...
10 months ago
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
African History...
a brief note on the history of Music in Africa
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plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
Dr Alun Withey
The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
a year ago
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
Wrong Side of...
The Tears of Strangers are only water
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Open Culture
The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
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We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
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What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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Monet Haystack Painting Could Fetch $30 Million at Auction Next Month
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
10 months ago
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
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The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland?
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Flashbak
26 Found Photos of Australian Life In the 1970s
The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry...
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The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry Humphries (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) created Sir Les Patterson and made him Australia’s cultural ambassador. Drunk, lecherous and offensive, after Sir Les made his debut...
Classical Wisdom
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Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
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over a year ago
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
TheCollector
Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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Musée Rodin to Launch Shanghai Outpost in September
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NY Denny Gallery Shuts Down After Ten Years
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Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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TheCollector
Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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Open Culture
Bob Dylan Reads “ ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” On His Holiday Radio Show (2006)
Allow me to name just a few of the people I want to hear hosting and curating radio shows—former Sex...
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Allow me to name just a few of the people I want to hear hosting and curating radio shows—former Sex Pistols’ singer John Lydon, former Clash frontman Joe Strummer, former Woody Guthrie impersonator Bob Dylan.… Luckily for me, this ain’t just fantasy baseball; at various times,...
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UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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What Was Négritude?
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TheCollector
Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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Classical Wisdom
Dido: Queen of Carthage
Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
a year ago
Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
TheCollector
Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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TheCollector
Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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Flashbak
Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
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Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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New Cabins *NOW* Available
TheCollector
7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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Who Was Pasquale Paoli, the (Other) Corsican Revolutionary?
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How Did the Seasons Get Their Names?
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Who Was Gabriele D’Annunzio?
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What Is the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)? Origins & History
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10 Can’t-Miss South American Films
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What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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Trying to Understand...
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History Today Feed
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
JamesHoare
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TheCollector
What is the History of Christmas? A Journey Through Time
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10 Historic Small Towns in Arizona You Must Visit
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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Flashbak
Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
5 months ago
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
9 months 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
100r.co, added chainplates, knots, washing dishes, receiving mail, updated our notes on diy carbonation system, and refrigeration.
Uxn, added 2 new commands...
TheCollector
Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World?
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Open Culture
Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
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TheCollector
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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TheCollector
George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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Classical Wisdom
Who Was Julian?
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
Res Obscura
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weird medieval guys
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Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
a year ago
Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
Trying to Understand...
What's Left ... And What's Left?
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
a year ago
A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
TheCollector
Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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Flashbak
Leeds Kids the 1970s
Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the...
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Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the picture below of kids ‘tobogganing’ down a dry, rocky slope in the northern English city of Leeds in the 1970s “The Cresta Run”. It is not the original Cresta Run, which is a...
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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Louis Wain’s Cat Paintings Head to Auction
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Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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Hundred Rabbits
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, designed a donsol turnip.
Uxn, wrote a file browser...
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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Interview with Dr. Roberta Bondar: Intertwining Art and Science
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Hell in the Bible: Eternal Damnation vs. Annihilationism
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7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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History Today Feed
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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Tue, 12/19/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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TheCollector
Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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Classical Wisdom
Ovid's Dating Advice
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Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
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TheCollector
Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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History Today Feed
Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
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Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
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Thu, 08/01/2024 - 08:00
Trying to Understand...
Honesty: What's In It For Me?
First, do lots of harm.
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TheCollector
Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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Flashbak
Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early...
9 months ago
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
TheCollector
Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death
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Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from...
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TheCollector
London’s National Portrait Gallery Opens First Francis Bacon Show
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Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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Brussels Statue Supposedly Damaged by Irish Tourist
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Classical Wisdom
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Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement
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Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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U.S. Submarines: How Did the ‘Silent Service’ Win WWII in the Pacific?
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L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
4 months ago
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
TheCollector
5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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8 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
10 months ago
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the triumph of the Roman legions in the third and second century over the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we looked at some of the operational and strategic...
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Jacques Lacan: Explaining the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real
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10 London Museums You Should Visit
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What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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Trying to Understand...
The Machine Stops.
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
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Augustus and Ancient Religion
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10 of Rosalba Carriera’s Best Artworks
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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...
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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...
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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Get to Know Palazzo Doria Pamphilj & Its Fascinating History
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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Summary Of Changes
GrimGrains, added a quick grilled cheese recipe.
Noodle,...
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Amerigo Vespucci & The Naming of the Americas
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Largest UK Holbein Exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
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Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs
Factoids From the Ancient World
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Factoids From the Ancient World
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Rituals and Religion
Belief in the Ancient World
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Belief in the Ancient World
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Summary of changes for September 2023
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a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
Niju,...
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Europe's absent-minded revolution
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5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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Oops! I did it again...
Getting our events straight...
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Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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Unlike For Like.
BRICS and how international institutions work.
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BRICS and how international institutions work.
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What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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5 Naval Battles That Defined Russian History
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Why Is Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?
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Riddle Me This: Question Marks In Vintage Photographs
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Global Inequality...
The end of the great order under the Heaven
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A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
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In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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10 Powerful Women From Folklore and Mythology Around the World
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How Does Mona Hatoum Turn Ordinary Objects into Artworks?
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A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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Hidden History
Antarctic Snow Cruiser
In 1939, the United States began work on a colossal motor vehicle to be used for exploration and...
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In 1939, the United States began work on a colossal motor vehicle to be used for exploration and field work in Antarctica. By 1939 Antarctica remained as one of the last unexplored regions on the planet. Norwegian adventurer Roald Amundsen had been the first human to reach the...
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Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a...
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On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a pair of trousers from Joe Haggar of the Haggar Clothing Co. based in Dallas, Texas. Not a shy man, Johnson was known for conducting official business whilst sat on the toilet and...
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Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name?
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Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices
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Phillips 2023 Sales Dropped Down 15 Percent from 2022
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History Today Feed
Moving With the Times?
Moving With the Times?
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Moving With the Times?
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Paris Announces Notre Dame Reopening Plus Potential Entry Fee
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The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter
Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
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Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
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Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere?
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Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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‘Ain Ghazal: One of the Oldest Places in Human Civilization
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The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great...
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“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” —Duane Michals Through image sequences, framing, multiple exposures,...
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks
Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction...
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Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction writing, impressive ‘lamb chops’ – of which he said: “They became a permanent feature of my face, and it is now difficult to believe early photographs that show me without sideburns”...
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
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The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
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This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
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Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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No Cheers for Authoritarianism
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Remind me what it was, exactly ....
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Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
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On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various times by Morris, John Prine, and Marianne Faithfull.
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What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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A complete history of Zeila (Zayla): ca. 800-1885 CE.
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Journal of African cities: chapter 14
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A History of Italy in 13 Monuments
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African History...
a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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an African kingdom in southern Italy.
Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
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11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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African History...
The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone...
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The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone monuments in Africa south of Nubia.
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The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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Global Inequality...
To all the newspapers I loved
The decline and fall of the print media.
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The decline and fall of the print media.
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Ming Dynasty Artefacts Found in South China Shipwreck
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Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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Marx Truncated
A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
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A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
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What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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Eva Perón: Is She Really a Feminist Icon?
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How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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Overcoming Bias
Capitalism, Govt Causes Culture Woes?
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
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Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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African History...
a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
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plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
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German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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10 Architectural Landmarks You Must See in Valencia
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Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay?
Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
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Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
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Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites
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What Is Banksy’s Real Identity? (5 Scenarios)
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Last Chance
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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Weekend Roundup
Memorial Day Weekend Sale
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Memorial Day Weekend Sale
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
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Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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What is the Eye of Ra?
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Inside the Catholic State
The world that created Caravaggio
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The world that created Caravaggio
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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The end and the beginning of history
Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
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Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
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Summary of changes for October
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over a year ago
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
TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal.
Left, added a...
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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A History of the House of Savoy: From Its Origins to Its End
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Mao’s Great Leap Forward & How It Killed Millions
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