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Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was...
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Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was bushy haired and youthful, soft-bodied like the Jesus at the Arian Baptistery, hopeful and free. The face was based on the best looking heathen gods. In the Middle Ages, Jesus...
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza?
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17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an...
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Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an Alice Thr0ugh The Looking Glass are so much about the food. Little surprise then to discover The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook: A Culinary Diversion by John Fisher, first published...
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The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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TheCollector
Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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Hundred Rabbits
hello fujisan
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and...
over a year ago
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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Your favourite half-British president
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We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
7 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Twilight, updated our notes on chainplates, wheel to tiller conversion, cabin lights standing rigging replacement, Princess Louisa Inlet(added...
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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Who Was the Real Mona Lisa?
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Who Was Vivienne Westwood?
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Does Marcus Matter?
Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
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Was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius a serious philosopher... or just a glorified diarist?
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5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving on the Second Monday of October?
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
over a year ago
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
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How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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Flashbak
The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
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In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
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Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? Part II
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost...
7 months ago
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. Last week, we looked at the sources for Alexander’s life, the historiography (that is, the history-of-the-history) of his modern reception and...
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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Respect the Spartan Woman!
How was it for the ancient ladies?
a year ago
How was it for the ancient ladies?
TheCollector
5 Royals Who Behaved Badly
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Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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Who Was the Fifth Beatle?
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Weekend Roundup
Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
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Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
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Summary of changes for January 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
10 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added galley refit, updated lifelines, seamed box cushions, and moisture prevention underliner.
Permacomputing, revamped the page.
Flappy Bird,...
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Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
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Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear?
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Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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Is There a Life After Death? A Philosophical Approach
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The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
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10 Must-See Exhibitions in Europe This Year (2025)
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What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
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Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you...
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“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you take a photograph of someone they are immortalised, they’re there forever. For me that was important, that you’re acknowledging people’s lives, and also contextualising people’s...
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7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising
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7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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The Mystery of Crazy Horse: His Life & Legacy
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Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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How to Celebrate the Love of Learning
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Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
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The Art of Pompeii
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Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
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Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence
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Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
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The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
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Chili Pepper’s Fiery History: The Berry That Conquered the World
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Climate Vandal Painted Words in Red Next to a Civil War Exhibit
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What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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Flashbak
See The Rolling Stones 1966 Tour Program
In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay...
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In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay and the New Jaywalkers and Ike & Tina Turner. Formed in 1962, The Stones had their first number one in ‘64 and in 1966 had released what was to be their breakthrough album an...
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10 of Judith Leyster’s Best Dutch Golden Age Paintings
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The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of...
2 months ago
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of ikebana. The practice, which roughly translates to “making flowers come alive”, “the way of flowers” or the less poetic “flowers kept alive” uses flora to create specific human...
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Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
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Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
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Who cares about Homer, anyway?
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
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What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
TheCollector
Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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Dreams of Space -...
Judy Space Puzzles (1970s)
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time...
a month ago
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time to bring them back.
These were classroom puzzles (although they were probably owned by kids at home too). They were mostly for Kindergarten-2nd grade kids and were "educational" as...
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What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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10 Incredible Examples of European Symbolist Art
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Who Won the Battle of Shiloh?
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Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
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Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
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Hundred Rabbits
Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
over a year ago
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
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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
Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
a year ago
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
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Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Perryville?
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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Classical Wisdom
What is Virtue?
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other...
a year ago
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
AND October 1, 2012...
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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Patterns in Humanity
Racial Homicide Disparities Since 1910
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
a year ago
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the evolution of black-white homicide disparities in the United States since the early 20th century.
TheCollector
Getty Map Sold by Christie’s
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I: Aristocrats, Retainers and...
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in...
6 months ago
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. As moderns, we are so familiar with the way that states function that the far older systems of non-state organization and...
TheCollector
The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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African History...
Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
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The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
TheCollector
A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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Flashbak
Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of...
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Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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Classical Wisdom
Rome's Worst General?
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
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And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
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Before Banksy: London Graffiti in the 1980s
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the...
a year ago
It’s not all Banksy. In the 1980s, graffiti in London was less well organised and loved by all the right people. Most of of it got washed off walls or knocked down as the buildings it decorated made way for flats. Most of it wasn’t all that good. And because London graffiti was a...
African History...
A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894)
Urbanism in the forest region.
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Urbanism in the forest region.
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7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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Hitler’s Health Issues & Medical Ailments: 8 Facts
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Leonora Carrington Painting Set to Quadruple Auction Record
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Johnny Cash: A Bio of Country Ballads & Boisterous Song
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Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
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Overcoming Bias
No Meta Status Orgs
In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to...
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In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to many specific medical conditions, and also to studying and reforming medicine in general, at a meta level.
Trying to Understand...
Their Enemies The Russians
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But what about the rest of us?
TheCollector
6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
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Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Auctioned for $6 Million
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective
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Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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Dragons Across Cultures & Mythologies: Here Be Dragons!
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Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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Yuri's Night is April 12th!
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri...
a year ago
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri Gagarin 1st manned flight into space in Vostok 1, which completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. So this book is also from 1961 suggesting that children should dream of this...
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Summary of changes for July
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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Adelie, added image maps, animation controls, and wrote a guide....
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French Culture Minister Calls For Climate Activism Penalties
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How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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5 Great European Christmas Markets Worth Traveling For
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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A complete history of Madagascar and the island kingdom of Merina.
State and society on Africa's largest island.
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State and society on Africa's largest island.
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Principality of Sealand: The Smallest Nation in the World?
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Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements
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The Assassination of Malcolm X
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What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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Battle of Pydna: How the Romans Ended the Macedonians
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Margaret Thatcher: Britain’s Iron Lady
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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How important are dreams?
Should we pay attention to them?
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Should we pay attention to them?
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
a month ago
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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TheCollector
“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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London’s National Portrait Gallery Opens First Francis Bacon Show
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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Venice Plan for Damaged Banksy Mural Concerns Locals
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Hundred Rabbits
Working offgrid efficiently
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the...
over a year ago
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...
TheCollector
What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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6 Crazy Facts about Cape Town
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What Was Emerson’s Vision for the American Scholar?
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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TheCollector
8 Spots for Exploring Indigenous Art in the American Southwest
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African History...
a brief note on themes in African art.
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
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Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
Flashbak
Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray...
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The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
TheCollector
Laser Surveys Reveal Ancient Maya City in Mexico
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TheCollector
How Did People Get Paid in the Pre-Columbian Americas? (Not in Gold)
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Past Is Another Country.
A book review from the future.
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A book review from the future.
TheCollector
The Musée d’Orsay Held An Immersive Van Gogh Show
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TheCollector
Sufism in South and South East Asia
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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TheCollector
10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in England
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4 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 weeks ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
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Flashbak
Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a...
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“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
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When Was the Era of Japan’s Bakufu?
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Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington
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The Horrors of “Rubber Fever” in the Amazon Rainforest
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Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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3 Beautiful Places in the North of England Tourists Tend to Neglect
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
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Patterns in Humanity
The case for prisons
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The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
TheCollector
10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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Trying to Understand...
It's All About Them.
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But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
TheCollector
Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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Spartan Training
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The True History of Illtud of the Arthurian Legends
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Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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Flashbak
Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
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Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
TheCollector
The Tragic Life of Kermit Roosevelt & the Burden of Legacy
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Flashbak
Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
6 months ago
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
TheCollector
Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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History Today Feed
‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
TheCollector
A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!)
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TheCollector
Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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Open Culture
Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and...
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“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and difficult,” says Richard Feynman at the beginning of his 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine. “One of the things that makes it very difficult is that it takes a lot of imagination. It’s very...
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Previously Unknown Giorgione Painting Found in Germany
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt?
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What Did Americans Eat During the Great Depression?
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The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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Weekend Roundup
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
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Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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Trying to Understand...
Out Of Control.
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
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Fear the worst, hope for the best.
TheCollector
The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion?
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Global Inequality...
Why not Keynes?
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Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
TheCollector
Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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a year ago
Res Obscura
When technology follows art
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the...
a year ago
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
Classical Wisdom
Last Chance
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Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
TheCollector
Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts
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René Girard on Sacrifice & Violence: Why Does Scapegoating Happen?
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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13 English Words with Greek Origins
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How Can You Overcome Self-Censorship?
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Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won?
The Silence of the Elephants
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Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cape Town?
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Get to Know Meret Oppenheim Through 7 Works
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
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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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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Top Five Painters To Watch in 2024
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The empire of Samori Ture on the eve of colonialism (1870-1898)
a revolution with a contested legacy.
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a revolution with a contested legacy.
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The Ancient Ozempic
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
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“I Am Because We Are”: Introducing Ubuntu Philosophy
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Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar: The Hero’s Fourth Labor
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La Llorona: Latin America’s Vengeful Ghost in Film & Literature
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Aeneas: Founder of Rome
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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[Coming Soon] The Essential Greeks
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Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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Immigration and crime: Sweden
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TheCollector
How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
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The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
TheCollector
A History of Gibraltar: The Rock & the Ages
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50 Years of Cyprus Divided
50 Years of Cyprus Divided
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/18/2024 - 09:24
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50 Years of Cyprus Divided
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Thu, 07/18/2024 - 09:24
weird medieval guys
Why is medieval art so weird?
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran...
a year ago
Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
TheCollector
Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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Beyond Stoicism
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How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
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Everything changes and nothing stands still.
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Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
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Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
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Immoral Art: Hume’s “Rough Heroes” Problem
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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George Washington’s The Revolutionary War Letter on Sale
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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King John’s Lost Treasure
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Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
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King John’s Lost Treasure
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Thu, 08/15/2024 - 09:28
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Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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We are lost in a haunted wood.
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We are lost in a haunted wood.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Grimgrains, published a tofu from soy flour recipe, and reduced...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
6 months ago
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
TheCollector
The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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a year ago
African History...
a brief note on Africa's Scientific Manuscripts
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
a year ago
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
TheCollector
Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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5 months ago
Flashbak
The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
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William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
TheCollector
Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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4 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave!
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today...
over a year ago
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today is usually a pretty mundane – if not a pleasant – experience. Indeed, the rise of traditional barbershops over the past few years, offering shaving as an experience, together with...
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