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4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
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Count no man happy until the end is known
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Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign and just as wild, except instead of hungry lizards there are mosquitoes, also known as the vampires of the Marquesas.
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Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
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Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
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Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop. ...
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[Ebook] The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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How Did Paper Money Develop in the Premodern World?
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a complete history of an African monument
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Res Obscura
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Summary of changes for November 2023
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 November.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, drew some new art(Mastodon), finalized a few translations(Mastodon), and released it the project on Itchio!
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An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art
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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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
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Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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Cain’s Marriage: Who Did the Biblical Killer Marry?
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7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ Is Stolen, Then Recovered
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What Are the Books of the Old Testament? Order & Overview
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Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his...
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Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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African History...
A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894)
Urbanism in the forest region.
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Urbanism in the forest region.
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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Yuruparí: Amazon’s Unique Myth of Creation & Ritual of Passage
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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Samnite Wars: How Rome Conquered the Samnites (History & Aftermath)
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Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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Mary Queen of Scots: Biography & Facts
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt?
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Who was Thorkell the Tall?
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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Open Culture
How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim...
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Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some associated reflections.
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And some associated reflections.
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The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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Games Nations Play.
But they forget the people and the Street.
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But they forget the people and the Street.
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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Sun, 12/17/2023 - 00:00
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
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Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments?
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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Mon, 10/28/2024 -...
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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Mon, 10/28/2024 - 10:04
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
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Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
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Brussels Statue Supposedly Damaged by Irish Tourist
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8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:14
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:14
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...
Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
7 months ago
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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Was Vincent van Gogh Religious?
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War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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5 Transformative Leaders That Shaped British History
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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US Returns 600 Stolen Artifacts to Italy
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6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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Are Propaganda and Politics Inevitable Bedfellows?
And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
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And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
Dreams of Space -...
The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954)
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a year ago
Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed it :) . It was a premium with Mickey Mouse Weekly magazine. Evidently the magazine came with some pages that you could fold up into a tiny book. The others I have found evidence of...
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Monsters of Mythology
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A History Lover’s Guide to Tokyo
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La Llorona: Latin America’s Vengeful Ghost in Film & Literature
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Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added propeller maintenance, Maple Bay, Telegraph Cove,...
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The Rise of Extractive Politics
It's about having small expectations.
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It's about having small expectations.
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10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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How Did Japanese Prints Inspire Vincent van Gogh?
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When Was the First Crusade?
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How Did Norse Rune Magic Work?
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3 Beautiful Places in the South of England Tourists Neglect
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Dreams of Space -...
Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963)
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some...
11 months ago
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets.
Coombs, Charles. Illustrated by Foor, R. H. Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power. New York: William Morrow and Co. (96 p.)...
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Who Were the Samaritans?
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Flashbak
Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those...
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When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
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Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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UK Gallery to Recreate “Groundbreaking” 1907 Exhibition
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Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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Overcoming Bias
Love And War And Status
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“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
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42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
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The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the astrological magazine The Prophetic Messenger (1827 to 1861). More commonly known as Raphael’s Almanac in a nod to the Jewish archangel Raphael, the name was used a nom de plume by a...
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Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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Which Insects Have Humans Domesticated Throughout History?
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Three Cabins Left
Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
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Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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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...
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“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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What Is the History of Thanksgiving?
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African History...
A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
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In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
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The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution
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What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the...
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Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
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Street Artist JR Installs Optical Illusion at Milan Train Station
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Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness?
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
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Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:09
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The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
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The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
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What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance?
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Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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5 Strange Election Systems Around the World
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Is Subjective Equal to Objective?
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the...
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Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the middle of winter, and finally, around four months later, the first real spring day had arrived. The sun bore her rays magnificently, forcing the city’s residents into an ant-like...
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Who Were the Most Famous Symbolists?
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Banksy’s Latest Artwork Is a Goat on a Ledge in London
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What Was the First Triumvirate?
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5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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What makes a good friend?
'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
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'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
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7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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Will it Bend or Will it Break?
The international system, that is.
a year ago
The international system, that is.
Flashbak
Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
6 months ago
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
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What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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