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5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World
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“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
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5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) gives you a prescribed way in which you can actually reduce genuine suffering in your life because Rome’s great “philosopher king” lays out a very compelling, very...
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4 Techniques of 19th-Century Photography You Should Know
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How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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8 Exotic Birds Driven to Extinction in Modern History
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Global Inequality...
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I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
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Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
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8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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Journal of African cities: chapter 13
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Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media platforms on a new podcast, The Beautiful Idea, which will offer reporting and analysis of current events. The first episode of The Beautiful Idea has just been released!
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
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A History of the United States Supreme Court
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Aristotle on Knowledge, Truth, and Error (6 Arguments)
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Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
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a revolution with a contested legacy.
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State and society in southern Ethiopia: the Oromo kingdom of Jimma (ca. 1830-1932)
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Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its history and contribution to the country's cultural heritage. While Ethiopian historiography is often focused on the historical developments in the northern regions of the country, some...
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What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments)
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Patterns in Humanity
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Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire?
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A Collection of...
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This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
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The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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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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Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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Who Was Geoffrey of Monmouth? The Man Who Made Arthur and Merlin
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10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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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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Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story
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Overcoming Bias
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I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my last post make this a good time to take stock.
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Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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What Did Adorno Think of Beckett’s Endgame?
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The Met Returns Looted “Golden Boy” Statue to Thailand
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TheCollector Interviews Artist Inna Levinson: From Paint to Pixels
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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History Today Feed
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi?
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The Prophecies of Merlin
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Flashbak
1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
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British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
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Ernest Hemingway’s Guide to Writing A Book From Start to Finish
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“The more he learns from experience the more truly he can imagine” – Ernst Hemingway on writing, 1935 In his October 1935 column for Esquire magazine called Monologue to the Maestro: A High Seas Letter, Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899–July 2, 1961) shared his tips for writing...
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