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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
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https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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For the first 3 years we tested the...
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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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How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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La Llorona: Latin America’s Vengeful Ghost in Film & Literature
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Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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Emotions: Better Out or In?
Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
7 months ago
Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
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Samnite Wars: How Rome Conquered the Samnites (History & Aftermath)
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Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
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Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he...
3 months ago
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
9 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added gimballed stove, open pantry, Little Ninj and LPG fume detection system. Updated galley refit and Western Canada(includes tidal/current...
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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Classical Wisdom
Eternal Glory
Homer and Kleos
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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 08:38
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Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
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What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy?
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch $1 Million
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Does Karma Exist?
Does what goes around come around?
8 months ago
Does what goes around come around?
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Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941)
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
9 months ago
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
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5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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The Election That Caused the Boer War
The Election That Caused the Boer War
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:19
6 months ago
The Election That Caused the Boer War
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:19
A Collection of...
Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
a year ago
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
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What Was the Kido Butai?
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Res Obscura
The (history of) spice must flow
Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
10 months ago
Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August)...
over a year ago
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August) issue had a number of space related articles including: Will Your Child Visit The Moon? The article makes the case to the mothers of America that travel into space and the Moon is...
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
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Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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11 months ago
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The True Knights Templar
The True Knights Templar
j.hoare
Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
11 months ago
The True Knights Templar
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Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
Classical Wisdom
The Mystery of Morpheus
Who is the God of Dreams?
a year ago
Who is the God of Dreams?
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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An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire country. By the 1870s, the once-rural agrarian United States was beginning to emerge as an industrial power. The Civil War had spurred the rapid development of industry such as iron...
Trying to Understand...
Arming Ourselves Against The Future.
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
a year ago
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
Flashbak
Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
6 months ago
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
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Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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The 21st Amendment: The Only Amendment That Repealed Another
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments?
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Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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African History...
Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
a year ago
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
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How Foreshadowing Shapes Cinema and Storytelling
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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Trying to Understand...
Things Are Falling Apart ...
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
a year ago
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine In NATO Would Be A Disaster ...
But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
a year ago
But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
Flashbak
Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
4 months ago
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
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Frank Stewart’s Portraits of The American Journey – A Story of Jazz And Justice
“Just how somebody in photographs can treat black people with dignity. That I’d never seen before” –...
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“Just how somebody in photographs can treat black people with dignity. That I’d never seen before” – Frank Stewart Frank Stewart (born 1949) was 14 when he took his trained his Kodak Brownie on the March on Washington for Jobs in Freedom, otherwise known as the Great March in...
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Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady
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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History?
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
a year ago
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
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Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched...
6 months ago
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched high above the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, France. The wedding of two members of the Franco-Czechoslovakian (Diables Blancs) White Devils Company was overseen by Father Robert...
African History...
a brief note on themes in African art.
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
5 months ago
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
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3 Beautiful Places in the North of England Tourists Tend to Neglect
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10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
11 months ago
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
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Weekend Roundup
Prometheus and AI?
a month ago
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8 Things You Should Know About Wangechi Mutu
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Magna Graecia
Greek or Roman?
2 months ago
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How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
11 months ago
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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London’s Old Master Sales Squeak by Expectations
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
6 months ago
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
Classical Wisdom
Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
Should you meet your heroes?
7 months ago
Should you meet your heroes?
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V),...
a year ago
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
African History...
The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
6 months ago
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
Some people never grow up.
over a year ago
Some people never grow up.
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius
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10 months ago
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Weekend Roundup
Plato Vs Aristotle
7 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide in the United States: a summary
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
a month ago
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
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Pace Gallery to Represent Paul Thek Estate
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5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 08:00
4 months ago
Britain’s First Milk Bar Opens
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/01/2024 - 08:00
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Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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Encaustic Painting: An Ancient Art Form Explained
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Wrong Side of...
Educated rage
American polarisation: part 2
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American polarisation: part 2
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4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian
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Why the Organ Split the Church
Why the Organ Split the Church
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
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Why the Organ Split the Church
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Petra and Passports
a year ago
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What Was the Warsaw Pact?
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical...
6 months ago
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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What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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Seneca On Clemency
A Letter To Emperor Nero
a year ago
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