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10 Architectural Landmarks You Must See in Valencia
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
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When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done...
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Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius
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Should we pay attention to them?
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The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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Flashbak
Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV...
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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
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What Did Aristotle Say About Meaning and Language?
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A History of Phantom Pain
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1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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a brief note on the history of indigenous and foreign religions in African history, and the Kimpasi...
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What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry?
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How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor?
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Summary of changes for June 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
5 months ago
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June.
Summary Of Changes
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The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome
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5 Royals Who Behaved Badly
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Flashbak
American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
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How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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Hidden History
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An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire...
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Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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Should We Be Skeptics?
Is it good to question everything?
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Is it good to question everything?
TheCollector
Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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Hundred Rabbits
tools ecosystem
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In...
over a year ago
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In 2016, we left Canada, armed with our two iPhones and 2 MacBooks Pros. We didn't know the wattage of any of the devices we owned, and even less about the amount of solar needed to...
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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The Inuit and the Canadian Arctic: A Brief History
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History Today Feed
The Election That Caused the Boer War
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Summary of changes for June
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
Nasu, released a nasu guide, and updated the look of the icon. We...
Flashbak
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
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When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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Where Are the Best Travel Destinations for Shakespeare Fans?
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History Today Feed
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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Who Was Averroes?
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Emma Willard’s Time Maps
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Greco-Scythian Artifacts Seized by Spanish Police
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Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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Who Was Julius Caesar?
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Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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Flashbak
Lower Manhattan in 1973
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May...
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Why Is Blues Music More Than a Genre?
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Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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The Death of Einhard the Historian
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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Text Art: How Do Text and Art Mix Together?
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A Brief History of Collecting Art
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‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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History Today Feed
How French Was Medieval England?
How French Was Medieval England?
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Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
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What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda?
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
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over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
Donsol, designed a donsol turnip.
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Flashbak
New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
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New British Museum Book Brings Egyptian Pharaohs to Life
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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Abraham Lincoln’s Early Life: From Rural Kentucky to the White House
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Levina Teerlinc: A Woman Artist of the Tudor Court
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over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved documentation, implemented MIDI and sound chip, and...
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4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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Summary of changes for July 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
4 months ago
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This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
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Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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Classical Wisdom
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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A Collection of...
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This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
3 weeks ago
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
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What Is the Will to Power?
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What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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What Is a Film Auteur?
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Rise of Abraham Lincoln: The Road to the 1860 Election
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Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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6 Crazy Facts about Cape Town
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Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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11 months ago
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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History Today Feed
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
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Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
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Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
TheCollector
How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
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TheCollector
Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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TheCollector
Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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Hundred Rabbits
Wood stove installation
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that...
over a year ago
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TheCollector
10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
over a year ago
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A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was...
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Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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[Ebook] The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
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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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7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post...
4 weeks ago
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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FDR: How Roosevelt Won Unprecedented Four Presidential Elections
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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10 Van Gogh Paintings You Should Know
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Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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African History...
a brief note on Africa's Scientific Manuscripts
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
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plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
Flashbak
Cars of Britain in the 1970s
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In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
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How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing.
Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
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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Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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Three Cabins Left
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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
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JamesHoare
Thu, 05/30/2024 - 09:19
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What Use is Prehistory to the Historian?
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African History...
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A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
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The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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You And Whose Army?
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NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
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Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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7 African Myths About Animals
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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What Was the Gospel of Thomas?
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How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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On the Obscenity of Ovid
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& Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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Brushing for Britain
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Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
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Brushing for Britain
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4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
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Dreams of Space -...
One, Two (1965)
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a year ago
The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
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The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
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Flashbak
Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
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How Should We Treat Our Enemies?
And how does it reflect on us?
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And how does it reflect on us?
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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The World's First Computer
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The Antikythera Mechanism
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Flashbak
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In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
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Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion?
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A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
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We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
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What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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What Was Kantai Kessen?
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Ancient Marble Zeus Head Unearthed in Türkiye
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: August 2, 2024
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4 months ago
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
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The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
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The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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Louis XIV: History’s Longest-Reigning Monarch
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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Are Isaac and Ishmael Enemies in the Bible?
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What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
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What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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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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Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
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How Should We Look at History?
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Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
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Two Major Native Rebellions Against Hellenistic Kings
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Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes:...
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Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. – William Shakespeare, The Tempest, illustrated by Arthur Rackham 1926 Arthur...
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Cosmodrome (1987)
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is...
a year ago
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
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What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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What Is Capoeira?
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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