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Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
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AND October 1, 2012...
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5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
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William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
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I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
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Emperor Nero’s “Golden House”: What Was the Domus Aurea?
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When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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Who Won? The Competition Between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
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Summary of changes for May
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 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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Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
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Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
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On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
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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...
a year ago
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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Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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The Furies
Vengeance or Justice?
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...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
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Fri, 06/21/2024 - 08:00
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An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
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Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy
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Summary of changes for February
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over a year ago
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Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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Discover Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ Is Stolen, Then Recovered
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What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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How Does Mona Hatoum Turn Ordinary Objects into Artworks?
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Hidden History
The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire...
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5 Unique Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in the Incan Empire
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Too Much of Not A Lot
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Winning the day and losing the war.
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The KGB After Stalin
The KGB After Stalin
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The KGB After Stalin
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Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
They know what they think.
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They know what they think.
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Everything is (Somewhat) Connected.
But some things are more connected than others.
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Wrong Side of...
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Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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doldrumming
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
over a year ago
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
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The Infancy Gospel of Thomas & the Childhood of Jesus Christ
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
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Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
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American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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Architectural Wizardry: 4 Fascinating Works by Antoni Gaudi
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What Was the Oregon Trail? History and Legacy
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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The 7 Best Historical Sites in Bangkok, Thailand
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The Revolt of the Outer Party.
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
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Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
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...
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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.
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Base (1959)
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Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base" brings me a sense of excitement and nostalgia. In fact one of my treasures is my talking Dr. Evil Doll that says "Welcome to my moon base".
Nephew, William and Chester, Michael....
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The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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Jamestown: The Myth & Mystery of America’s First Permanent Colony
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How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy?
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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Who Is Ai Weiwei?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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Julius Caesar
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Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
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In Praise of the Preterite
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
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New Year, Old Books
New Year, Old Books
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New Year, Old Books
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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The Death of Clive of India
The Death of Clive of India
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The Death of Clive of India
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Flashbak
Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
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Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
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Drug Use in the Third Reich: Mass Addiction & Scientific Progress
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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...
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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,...
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The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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Interview with Dr. Roberta Bondar: Intertwining Art and Science
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The Past Is Another Country.
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What Is Thatcherism?
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What Are the Challenges of Creating ‘True Crime’ Stories?
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A History of the United States Senate
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as...
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doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
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The Essential Greeks
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Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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Summary of changes for January 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
10 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added galley refit, updated lifelines, seamed box cushions, and moisture prevention underliner.
Permacomputing, revamped the page.
Flappy Bird,...
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It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970,...
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The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
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What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth?
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The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France
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What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler?
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Aristotle's Politics
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