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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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Cold Snapshots – Vintage Holiday Fun in the Snow and Ice
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Alan Turing: The Genius Who Cracked the Enigma Code
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Patterns in Humanity
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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Charles Green Shaw’s Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes – c. 1920s
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“Art, since its inception has never depended upon realism. Why, one cannot help wondering, should it begin now? – Charles Green Shaw This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) in the late 1920s or early 1930s (given the styling, it’s a...
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Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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New Study May Reveal Stonehenge’s Mysterious Origins
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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Dr Alun Withey
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Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still only setting things up, so please be patient with the extremely cheesy and clunky vids as I try to work out what I’m doing! I’ve only got a couple of videos up at the moment too, …...
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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The Immortals
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...and the feared Persian Army
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Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
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Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
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Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case
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What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
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What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Mexico?
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Summary of changes for August
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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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
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What Is the Gospel of Truth?
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The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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The 4 Most Important Cultures in Ancient Anatolia
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What Was the Un-American Activities Committee?
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What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
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What Were the Consolations of Boethius?
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Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
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What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t
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The Death of a Mnemonist
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The Death of a Mnemonist
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Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
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A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
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An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
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What Was Négritude?
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The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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Mount Toba: Did a Supervolcano Almost Wipe Out the Human Species?
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Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
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Flashbak
New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
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One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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Les Soixante-Huitards: The French Student Demonstrations of May 1968
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What Is Conceptual Photography?
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Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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Let's Be Enemies
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How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them?
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Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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What’s the History of the Rugby World Cup?
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The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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Manhattan Noir: John Fensten’s Photographs of New York City in the 1980s
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John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio with Lee and Susan Strasberg in the late 1950s, early 1960s. He appeared on the critically acclaimed CBS television anthology drama series Playhouse 90. And was a longtime resident...
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The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
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This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
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Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard
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What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
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The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted in one of the continent's longest-standing conflicts, which threatens to destroy the country's social fabric and its historical heritage. Just as the plight of modern Darfur...
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Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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Mazes and Labyrinths: An Illustrated History (1922)
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“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” – Philip K. Dick, VALIS William H. Matthews leads us through his 1922 book Mazes and Labyrinths from his home in Ruislip in the English county of Middlesex. Compiled shortly...
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The Coming Of Neo-Tribalism.
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Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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