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Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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Stock Car Racing in 1972
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
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The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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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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Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
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Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
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May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars.
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an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024
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History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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Frank Stewart’s Portraits of The American Journey – A Story of Jazz And Justice
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5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams
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Summary of changes for August 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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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
Summary Of Changes
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How Did Romania Become a Country?
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Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
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Another Of My Essays in French
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And some bits and pieces.
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Gap Week: December 1, 2023
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
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No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
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Sri Lanka’s Top 6 Must-See Historic Sites
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The Anat Ebgi Gallery Expands to Tribeca
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIb:
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This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at Paradox Interactives ancient grand strategy game, Imperator: Rome, which covers (inter alia) the period of the collapse of the Roman Republic, which we generally call the Late...
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10 Incredible Examples of European Symbolist Art
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A complete history of Madagascar and the island kingdom of Merina.
State and society on Africa's largest island.
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State and society on Africa's largest island.
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How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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