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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
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5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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Fighting the Home Front’s ‘Enemy Within’
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review
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What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: Racism on a Federal Level
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Restoration Reveals Ancient Colors of Egypt’s Edfu Temple
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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Summary Of Changes
Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
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History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
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The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
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How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
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An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do.
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6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series
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10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War
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The Devil’s Dictionary: The 50-ish Best Descriptions From The Cynic’s Word Book, 1906
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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
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British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
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Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease pudding and saveloys, what next is the question? Rich gentlemen have it boys – in-di-gestion! – Food Glorious Food from the muscial oliver by Lionel Bart, 1968 You didn’t need...
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
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How Can We Prevent Character Assassination?
Corruption in the Ancient World
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The Death of Literary Fiction.... And its Resurrection?
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Plato On Knowledge
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Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
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Freak Shows: The Truth Behind Beauty and the Beast
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Tokyo
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
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Empire building and Government in the Yorubaland: a history of Oyo (1600-1836)
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Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere?
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Egypt’s Giza Restoration Bid Faces Backlash From Archaeologists
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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Johnny Cash: A Bio of Country Ballads & Boisterous Song
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty
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President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
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On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a pair of trousers from Joe Haggar of the Haggar Clothing Co. based in Dallas, Texas. Not a shy man, Johnson was known for conducting official business whilst sat on the toilet and...
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Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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Immigration and crime: Denmark
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Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
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The Machine Stops.
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And fiddling won't fix it.
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How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks
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10 Facts About the Temples of Angkor
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Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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8 Must-See Highlights From London’s Soane Museum
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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Plato Vs Aristotle
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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Louis Wain’s Cat Paintings Head to Auction
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Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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LIVE Event: What is Plagiarism?
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With Harvard Professor James Hankins and 'History of Philosophy without any gaps' Peter Adamson.
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What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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Face to Face Exhibit Offers Face Time With Fayum Portraits
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Fellow believers or fellow citizens?
Liberalism dies in darkness
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Liberalism dies in darkness
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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Sophocles' Swansong
Oedipus at Colonus
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
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The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
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Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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8 Things You Should Know About Wangechi Mutu
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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10 Historic Towns in Oregon Worth Visiting
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4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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Demographics and American Homicides
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
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Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
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Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism?
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In Praise of the Preterite
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
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Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
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Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest...
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The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest medieval conventions, sometimes depicted in water colour with fantastic elements such as human faces. The medicinal properties and preparations of the plants. Via University...
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
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What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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a brief note on the intellectual contributions of African scholars in the diaspora
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
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the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
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What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Mexico?
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A Few Spots Left
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
A Collection of...
Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic
This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
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This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
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For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triump, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great...
10 months ago
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Romans and the heirs of Alexander, asking the question, “What can defeat a Macedonian sarisa-phalanx?” Last time, we started looking at...
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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...
10 months ago
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
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11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
a month ago
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
Dreams of Space -...
Looking Into Science (1965)
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965...
over a year ago
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
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Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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The First Philosopher?
And the Boundless Universe
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And the Boundless Universe
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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Dionysus
The God of Wine!
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