Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
a year ago
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President
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Christie’s Presents Two Latin American Art Sales, Starting Friday
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The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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Dutch & Flemish Vanitas Paintings: A Theme for the North’s Golden Age
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a year ago
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Original ‘Keep Calm’ Posters Set to Sell for Thousands at Auction
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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7 months ago
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
9 months ago
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
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Francis Bacon Portrait of George Dyer to Sell at Sotheby’s
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
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What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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Classical Wisdom
Will There Be “Crazy” People?
Symposium on the Seas...
10 months ago
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Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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Alive! The Incredible Story of Hugh Glass
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8 months ago
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Jackie Kennedy’s Georgetown Mansion Goes on Sale
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a year ago
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Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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Classical Wisdom
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
4 months ago
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
Dreams of Space -...
Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
a year ago
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
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Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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10 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Recidivism in Norway
Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
6 months ago
Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
Trying to Understand...
Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
over a year ago
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
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9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Let's Be Enemies
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
a year ago
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
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Myself: Timed Exposures, 1971
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures....
6 months ago
Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has...
2 months ago
“For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Rosalind Fox Solomon got old. In …...
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10 Historic Christmas Towns in the US to Visit
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIa: How a Legion Fights
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second...
10 months ago
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander and the Roman legions. Last time, we looked at the Hellenistic army as a complete system, incorporating...
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The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush
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5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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African History...
a brief note on the history of Music in Africa
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
a year ago
plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
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5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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Will The West Eat Itself?
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
a year ago
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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10 History-Rich But Affordable US Cities You Can Move to
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Kent
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10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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Hidden History
Museum Ship Destroyer USS Kidd
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a...
a month ago
The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Kidd was named, not after the famous British pirate, but after a Rear Admiral who was killed on board the Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Kidd served in both the Second World War and the Korean War. The destroyer USS Kidd was...
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Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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African History...
A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
a year ago
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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La Llorona: Latin America’s Vengeful Ghost in Film & Literature
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Why Is Emperor Caligula’s Reign Notorious?
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a year ago
African History...
Life and works of Africa's most famous Woman scholar: Nana Asmau (1793-1864)
On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
7 months ago
On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
History Today Feed
Death of the King of Siam
Death of the King of Siam
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
2 months ago
Death of the King of Siam
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Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
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10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains?
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science...
6 months ago
Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). The short, typically four-page issues promoted the book club’s coming selections and best of volumes from Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
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What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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Middle Kingdom Pyramids: The Lesser Known Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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Which Countries Speak Mandarin Chinese?
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The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
a month ago
How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Story of Thebes
a year ago
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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7 Key Beliefs and Practices From Hasidic Judaism
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Be Afraid of Technology?
Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
a month ago
Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
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The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met
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Interview with Dr. Roberta Bondar: Intertwining Art and Science
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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Dreams of Space -...
Space Witch (1959)
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
a month ago
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
Space Witch is a pleasant story about a witch who wants to expand her frightening to creatures on other planets. She constructs a "space broom" and a...
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
On the Spot: Chris Clark
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Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
12 months ago
On the Spot: Chris Clark
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Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in...
10 months ago
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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Who Were the Allied Powers?
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Love Ourselves?
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
10 months ago
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
Res Obscura
How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
An experiment with historical simulation
a year ago
An experiment with historical simulation
TheCollector
Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity?
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a year ago
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What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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3 months ago
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Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added electrical refit(portal for AC & DC...
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Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg?
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Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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a year ago
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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8 months ago
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Paracelsus in the Ottoman Empire: Adoption or Adaptation?
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9 months ago
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Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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a year ago
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Who Is Kiki Smith?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring)
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
a year ago
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
6 months ago
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
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Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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What Are the Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela?
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History Today Feed
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
8 months ago
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
African History...
Join me on Notes
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
a year ago
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
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What Is Anxiety to Soren Kierkegaard?
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Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Grimgrains, published a tofu from soy flour recipe, and reduced...
Trying to Understand...
That's The Truth?
In politics, well, it depends.
a year ago
In politics, well, it depends.
Global Inequality...
The third framing
Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
3 months ago
Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
a year ago
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
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3 Beautiful Places in the South of England Tourists Neglect
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
a year ago
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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Trying to Understand...
No More Heroes.
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
a month ago
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
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Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye
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Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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What Is the Will to Power?
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Flashbak
A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
4 weeks ago
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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History Today Feed
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
10 months ago
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
Flashbak
Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” –...
2 months ago
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” – Meryl Meisler Before cameras became ubiquitous and the billions of instantly sharable and instantly forgettable pictures formed the backdrop to our more insular digital lives,...
Hidden History
The Ocarina
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
2 months ago
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
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A Brief History of Collecting Art
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What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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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.
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7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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Why Was the Gutenberg Printing Press Important?
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
7 months ago
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
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Remedios Varo: A Female Surrealist Painter Who Isn’t Frida Kahlo
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Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Classical Wisdom
What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
9 months ago
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
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How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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Trying to Understand...
This Changes Everything!
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
10 months ago
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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Classical Wisdom
What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
a month ago
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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Who Was Frantz Fanon?
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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What Are the Key Influences That Shaped the French New Wave?
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How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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Shocking Scandals: 10 of the Most Controversial US Elections
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Putting Pirates on Trial
Putting Pirates on Trial
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
Putting Pirates on Trial
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
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10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg?
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African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
2 weeks ago
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might...
8 months ago
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway You might have heard that Ernest Hemingway wrote a six-word short story in response to a $10 bet that so few words could make the reader cry. Hemingway won with: “For sale: Baby shoes. Never...
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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History Today Feed
‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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Dreams of Space -...
Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962)
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current...
a year ago
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current (at the time) and wonderful event in global communication. We has lost track of how satellites have changed our lives and made the earth a smaller place. It is a little dull in...
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7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars
A history of the monastic high life
a year ago
A history of the monastic high life
Classical Wisdom
The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism
Heraclitus against Parmenides
2 months ago
Heraclitus against Parmenides
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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Trying to Understand...
Too Much of Not A Lot
Winning the day and losing the war.
a year ago
Winning the day and losing the war.
TheCollector
What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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History Today Feed
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
7 months ago
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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13 Surprising Facts About William Shakespeare
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Little People With Agency.
No, not that Agency.
3 months ago
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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No Women Allowed?
Greek Theater and Gender
3 months ago
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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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...
10 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...
Classical Wisdom
[Ebook] The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius...
a year ago
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) gives you a prescribed way in which you can actually reduce genuine suffering in your life because Rome’s great “philosopher king” lays out a very compelling, very...
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The Louvre Seeks Donations to Buy Chardin’s Strawberries Work
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A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
8 months ago
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
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Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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Cj Hendry Lands in Miami With HOOPS Tree Installation
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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Dreams of Space -...
A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
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An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do.
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5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
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Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
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The KGB After Stalin
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
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Hundred Rabbits
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After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
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After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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Who Were ‘The Cambridge Five’?
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
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“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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How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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What’s the Best Time to Visit the Colosseum?
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Who Was African American Lawman Bass Reeves?
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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TheCollector interviewt die zeitgenössischen Künstlerin Toni Mauersberg
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What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
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Is it good, bad or relative?
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6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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Was Henry VIII Really a Protestant?
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China’s Communist Comic Books
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What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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Did the Ramones Invent Punk?
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Hundred Rabbits
Working offgrid efficiently
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the...
over a year ago
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the limits of our space, and at first, it was difficult to create new things, as we had to make time to learn how to solve underlying problems. Our boat was not just an office, it was...
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Bronze Age Town Found in Saudi Arabian Desert
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Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
a year ago
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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JamesHoare
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic
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African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
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Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
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10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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Pascal’s Wager: Should you Bet on God’s Existence?
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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