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[Coming Soon] The Essential Greeks
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10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack
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Hera, Queen of the Gods
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It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and...
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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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The Anne of Cleves Louvre Portrait Got a Makeover
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Ancient Greek Art
Through the Ages
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Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for...
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Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
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4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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Ancient Marble Zeus Head Unearthed in Türkiye
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Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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7 Notable Kings of Israel and Judah From the Bible
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Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal
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How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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The Art of Pompeii
Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
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The Death of A New Jersey Shopping Mall
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next...
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There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next few years as vacancy rates are increasing due to the pandemic, a slowed economy and increased online shopping. Photographer Phillip Buehler captured the death of the Wayne Hills mall...
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
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What Is the History of the Blues?
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How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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African History...
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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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the...
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Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
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Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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The Early Years of Jesus
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How Did the Watergate Scandal Impact Presidential Elections?
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Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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The Myth of the Minotaur
Journey Into the Labyrinth
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Herodotus Versus Thucydides?
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
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Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
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Roman Empire Podcasts
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Hundred Rabbits
leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
over a year ago
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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rainy with a chance of mosquitoes
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign...
over a year ago
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign and just as wild, except instead of hungry lizards there are mosquitoes, also known as the vampires of the Marquesas.
Before arriving, we didn't know what it was going to be like...
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The “Arch”: Who Was Desmond Tutu?
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Global Inequality...
Three steps to freedom
Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
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Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
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Who Is Pina Bausch?
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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Monsters of Mythology
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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Flashbak
Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art...
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American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art catalog published by Collaborative Projects (Colab) and Printed Matter, Inc. for Christmas 1982. Colab sought cultural activism that was purely artist driven. In addition to creating...
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Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
a year ago
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
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When Did Vincent van Gogh Start Painting?
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5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages
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What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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St. Nicholas
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Who Was Django Reinhardt?
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Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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When The Music's Over ...
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Who is Mierle Laderman Ukeles?
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History Today Feed
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
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Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
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New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes
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Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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Teach Your Children ....
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Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
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How Can We Prepare for the Worst?
Without living forever in fear and worry?
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Without living forever in fear and worry?
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Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England
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African History...
The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.
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Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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Francisco Goya Research Center Launches in New York City
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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David Roberts & Frederick Catherwood: Artists of Ancient Egypt & Maya
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Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink...
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He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times – Tubthumping by Chumbawumba Pub? Go on, then. Let’s go. And …...
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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"He spoke of computers with some awe"
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Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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Summary of changes for July 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Slide Rule, released a little slide rule toy(Mastodon).
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Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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British Museum to Digitalize Its Collection
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10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange...
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In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange bucket. He’s wearing dirty jeans and a grey hoodie. The guy’s in his seventies. Weather-worn. Grizzled beard. Walking stick. Back trouble caused by “old spinal injuries and bad...
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Should We Follow Silly Laws?
And what happens when we don’t?
a year ago
And what happens when we don’t?
TheCollector
Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
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What is Peter Singer’s Principle of Equal Consideration?
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Face to Face Exhibit Offers Face Time With Fayum Portraits
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Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love
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Mao’s Great Leap Forward & How It Killed Millions
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One Last Look at the Hotel where ‘Trainspotting’, ‘The Big Man’, ‘Taggart’ and Other Shows Were...
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in...
8 months ago
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in Glasgow like a ‘great carbuncle’, but you have probably seen parts of its interiors from films like Trainspotting (the circular room used as a backdrop for the drug scene with Keith...
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Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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7 Great Historical Attractions in the Netherlands
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Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the...
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In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
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What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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Summary of changes for March
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
History Today Feed
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece
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Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE)
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“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch $1 Million
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The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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Christopher Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', 15 years on
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What Was the Italian Risorgimento?
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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A Fistful of Clockwork Oranges
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What's it going to be, then?
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10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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What is Postmodern Art? The Genre Defined in 8 Iconic Works
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What’s the History of Gin?
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
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Restoration Reveals Ancient Colors of Egypt’s Edfu Temple
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What Is a Film Auteur?
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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5 Victorian Fashion Trends: From Flammable Skirts to Poisonous Fabrics
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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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...
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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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What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings?
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5 of Hildegard of Bingen’s Most Notable Works
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British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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Res Obscura
Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
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The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
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Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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African History...
Anti-slavery laws and Abolitionist thought in pre-colonial Africa
the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
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the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
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What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
a year ago
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
Flashbak
Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos...
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“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos that, even more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all their gleeful decadent fun.” – Michael Musto on New York City video blogger (vlogging) Nelson...
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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Battle of Poitiers, by Charles de Steuben, 1837, via Wikimedia Commons
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
uxn,...
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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How Is Ben Black Elk Associated with Mount Rushmore?
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The World's First Computer
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The Antikythera Mechanism
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A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
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The Great Emu War: When Australians Lost to Flightless Birds
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History Today Feed
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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Simulating History with ChatGPT
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
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The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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The Stars of Sun Records: 4 Famous Singers
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Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also...
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‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also refers to my relationship to my country.’ — Harry Gruyaert Harry Gruyaert’s photographs show his preference for shooting in the street, where he can capture the unexpected, most...
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5 Famous Women Still-Life Painters
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Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach
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What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism?
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Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a...
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The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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I Have No Brain But I Must Scream.
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plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
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Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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How Does the Electoral College Work?
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Hidden History
The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at...
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In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at Kirtland Air Force Base just outside of Albuquerque NM. In January 1950, President Harry Truman announced that the United States would begin a crash program to develop and deploy a weapon...
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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Flashbak
One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
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On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown Heights to see the skaters at Brooklyn’s Empire Roller Disco. Formerly the Empire Rollerdrome (built 1941), the rink was now all disco. It was where Cher hosted the release party for...
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What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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Was Henry VI England’s Most Unfortunate King?
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Bangkok
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Spartan Training
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The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
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For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the pointy guitar, the hair, the band, the drive, the tights, the most piercing scream outside a Pee Wee Herman meets Cher Christmas convention. And you also had the hair. In the 1980s …...
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Rijksmuseum Begins Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’
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New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
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Early Christian Poetry
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Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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Dreams of Space -...
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Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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26 Found Photos of Australian Life In the 1970s
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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US President or American Caesar?
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Io Saturnalia!
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How Iran Won the West
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Danish Unknown Royal Family Discovered Thanks to Ring
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
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“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
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A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
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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.
A Visit to the New York World's Fair was the official World's Fair...
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
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Germanus of Auxerre and His Connection to Arthurian Legends
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know
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Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
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Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
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Chiaroscuro: The Dramatic Play of Light and Shadow
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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10 Must-See Historic Landmarks in Florida
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Blast Off (1973)
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This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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Hinduism in Bali: Things You Need to Know
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
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10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
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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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The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
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We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
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What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism?
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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Summary of changes for December 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
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100r.co, added solar cooking experiment, making seamed box cushions, making saloon cushions, moisture prevention underliner, and board games. Updated...
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