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Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
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5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962)
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What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
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The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
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What Is an Antipope?
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over a year ago
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Hey everyone!
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Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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State and society on Africa's largest island.
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No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
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Hundred Rabbits
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We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
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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 KGB After Stalin
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With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
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Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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What Was the Third Council of Constantinople?
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Who Won the Battle of Perryville?
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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The Case for Resistance : What We’re Up Against—and What It Could Look Like to Fight
In the following analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we...
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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Who Were the Maccabees?
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a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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