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Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
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How Has the Tower of London Changed Over Time?
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
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Does FIRST Matter Most?
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10 Architectural Landmarks You Must See in Valencia
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9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career
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Mudslinging & Negative Campaigning: A Look at US Election Dirty Tricks
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‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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Exploring Soviet Brutalism Through 9 Iconic Buildings
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7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who...
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These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who spent 32 years as a patient of the Hospital for Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders in Branice, Poland. Admitted to the hospital’s Psychopathological Art Expression workshop in...
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René Descartes’ Legacy: The Persistence of Mind-Body Dualism
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Van Dyck Rare Drawing Could Sell for $1.2 Million at Christie’s
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Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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African History...
A general history of African explorers of the Old world, and a 19th century Bornu traveller of...
This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old...
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This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old World’ from the classical period to the turn of the 20th century.
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Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
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Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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The Indian Citizenship Act
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Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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Is Subjective Equal to Objective?
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the...
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Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the middle of winter, and finally, around four months later, the first real spring day had arrived. The sun bore her rays magnificently, forcing the city’s residents into an ant-like...
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The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals
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Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
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What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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The KGB After Stalin
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The KGB After Stalin
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Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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Do We Need Dress Codes?
Are standards elevating or elitist?
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Are standards elevating or elitist?
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
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Summary of changes for September 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
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What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology
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How Socrates Perceive Life, Death, and the Afterlife?
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11 Facts About The Unique State of Maine
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The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book. The drug was illegal – still is, of course – and publishing a book on it is risky. But it an effort to produce the...
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Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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What Is a Film Auteur?
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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Chili Pepper’s Fiery History: The Berry That Conquered the World
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Collections: The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e
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This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
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What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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Was David Gulpilil Australia’s Most Important Actor?
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Explore Ancient Rome by Visiting These 6 Sites
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5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington
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Who Was Aleister Crowley?
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
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“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The making of pictures is to writing what laughing gas is to the Asian influenza.'” – Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse Than Death Kurt Vonnegut liked to draw. Other writers, notably J.R.R....
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7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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Catching Nessie on Film
Catching Nessie on Film
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Beyond Stoicism
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How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
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How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and...
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“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883–April 10, 1931) published the collection Twenty Drawings, the first and only time a selection of his paintings had appeared in print....
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
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Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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What Makes a Hero a HERO?
Both in the ancient world... and today?
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Both in the ancient world... and today?
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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African History...
A history of the Loango kingdom (ca.1500-1883) : Power, Ivory and Art in west-central Africa.
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Africa's past carved in ivory
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the rock of polynesia
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's...
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Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow?
We'd also heard that the school...
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13 English Words with Greek Origins
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What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
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How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
Aliens and the Enlightenment
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
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Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
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Interview with Dr. Roberta Bondar: Intertwining Art and Science
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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Expressionists Exhibition to Open This Week at Tate Modern
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Who Was Winston Churchill? The Dark Side of Britain’s Great Hero
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Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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Trying to Understand...
One Of My Essays In Dutch.
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I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
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The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
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10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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Bruno Latour’s Irreductions: The World as a Network of Relations
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La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique.
Another of my essays in French.
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Another of my essays in French.
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
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Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
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I talked to Terry Gross!
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A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled posting
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The great 2024 vibe shift (and other stories)
Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
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Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
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What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903.
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The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy
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Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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What Are the Romance Languages?
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9 Interesting Facts about Medusa
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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Weekend Roundup
Ancient Podcasts
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[Coming Soon] The Essential Greeks
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Little People With Agency.
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