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When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War?
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Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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Why Do I Care What Others Think? A Philosophical View of Self-Esteem
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What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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What’s the History of the Rugby World Cup?
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Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
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Sri Lanka’s Top 6 Must-See Historic Sites
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIb:
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This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at Paradox Interactives ancient grand strategy game, Imperator: Rome, which covers (inter alia) the period of the collapse of the Roman Republic, which we generally call the Late...
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Why did clothing become boring?
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The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion?
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Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Who Was Oswald Mosley?
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Plutarch and Pleasure
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Jean Cocteau: A Complete Insight (Bio & Art)
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African History...
The textile trade of pre-colonial Africa
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In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana), carrying more than 6,000 pieces of cloth which was to be exchanged for gold.
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Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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10 Cultural Sites in New York City You Should See
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Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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6 Astounding Achievements by Maya Lin
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James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
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What is the WORD? How can we understand Logos?
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TheCollector
The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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Hundred Rabbits
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
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5 Transformative Leaders That Shaped British History
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The Kiel Mutiny: An Attempt to End WWI?
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Why Bother Being Good? A Philosophical Exploration of Morality
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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Winged Victory
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Art of the Hellenistic Period
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8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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What Is Voguing?
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7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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African History...
A history of the Rozvi kingdom (1680-1830)
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From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
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6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
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The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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Global Inequality...
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4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot...
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In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot pictures for a story documenting people’s life in the city of Chicago. You can see Volume 1 of his photos here. The series of photographs was accompanied by an essay from the Chicago...
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TheCollector Interviews Contemporary Artist Toni Mauersberg
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What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro
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Dreams of Space -...
I See The Earth! (1968)
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I See The Earth! was a young adult/adult book about what technology would be like in the future. It included exploring and farming the ocean, monorails, huge cities and space exploration. The illustration in the margins are small but I rather enjoyed the space flight...
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Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On
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Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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Who Was Walt Whitman?
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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What Is the History of Valentine’s Day?
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Dreams of Space -...
Blast Off (1973)
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full...
a year ago
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.
Classical Wisdom
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Animals of the Ancient World
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Animals of the Ancient World
Trying to Understand...
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Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
Patterns in Humanity
Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid...
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Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid advancements in science and technology happening in the 1400s. With improvements in cartography, ship and other maritime technology, and an increased desire to understand and discover...
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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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.
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba Monster Scroll from 19th Century Japan
The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from...
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The Kaikidan Ekotoba scroll features paintings of 33 monsters, both fantastic and plain odd from Japan. It’s a subject we’ve visited before with the Yokai Horrors from the 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll. Thought to originate in the mid 1800s, the artist behind the Kaikidan...
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What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take
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What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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Dreams of Space -...
Mole Rocket (1965)
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece...
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Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
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Who Was Frantz Fanon?
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11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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Who Were the Most Notorious Nuremberg Trial Defendants?
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Dutch & Flemish Vanitas Paintings: A Theme for the North’s Golden Age
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
What should we do with Seneca?
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What should we do with Seneca?
Overcoming Bias
Arntz-Gray & I Talk Feminism
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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Summary of changes for May
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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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
Classical Wisdom
What Makes a Hero a HERO?
Both in the ancient world... and today?
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Both in the ancient world... and today?
Flashbak
Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
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These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
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The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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Chiaroscuro: The Dramatic Play of Light and Shadow
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Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
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‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
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Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
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‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
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