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Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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And does it need to be true to be important?
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Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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11 months ago
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera?
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What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
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a year ago
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Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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a year ago
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
History Today Feed
‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
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Hidden History
The Ocarina
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2 months ago
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Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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Forgotten Sandro Botticelli Piece Seized by Italian Authorities
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Why not Keynes?
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Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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The History of Porto & 21 Amazing Historic Sites You Should Visit
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
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JamesHoare
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
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The Myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Great Flood in Greek Mythology
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The Stars of Sun Records: 4 Famous Singers
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What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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4 Controversial Films: What Horrifies Movie Critics?
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Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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African History...
The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
7 months ago
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
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Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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A Collection of...
Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
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This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
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How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos
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What Turned the Tide in the Battle of the Atlantic?
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What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine...
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What Is an Existential Crisis?
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What Is the Leviathan in the Bible?
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What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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Who Were the Maccabees?
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Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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Dreams of Space -...
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a year ago
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
TheCollector
How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity?
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Love and Death
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Giorgio Agamben’s Notes on Dante’s Divine Comedy
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Classical Wisdom
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Both in the ancient world... and today?
a year ago
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Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi?
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6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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What Does It Mean to Be a Critical Thinker?
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
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7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities
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Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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History Today Feed
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
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JamesHoare
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TheCollector
How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms?
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CrimethInc.
The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power...
a month ago
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power between various factions with various degrees of support from Russia, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. Over the past few days, however, taking advantage of the ways that Iran...
A Collection of...
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10 months ago
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Operation Unthinkable: The Military Plan That Was Never Used
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The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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History Today Feed
The Lost Years of Jesus
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Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
a year ago
The Lost Years of Jesus
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African History...
a brief note on the history of Africans exploring their own continent
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
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plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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Who Won the Battle of Perryville?
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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The Anat Ebgi Gallery Expands to Tribeca
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Flashbak
Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
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The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
Event News
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Open Culture
The Complete History of the Music Video: From the 1890s to Today
If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are...
3 days ago
If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are not obviously music videos. The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star,” the first selection of MTV’s inaugural broadcast, must surely count as a music video — but then, it was...
TheCollector
7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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Res Obscura
The most interesting things I read in 2023
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a year ago
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Classical Wisdom
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Olympics Special
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Trying to Understand...
When The Music's Over ...
Turn out the lights.
10 months ago
Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may...
2 months ago
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
African History...
a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
uncovering the origins of Carthage's aethiopian auxiliaries.
a year ago
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TheCollector
4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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African History...
The Meroitic script and the documents of ancient Kush (ca. 300BC-450CE)
The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic...
5 days ago
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Open Culture
Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from...
2 weeks ago
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Insects’ Christmas, above. In addition to offering brief respite from the chaos of consumerism and modern expectations, this...
TheCollector
What Is the History of Thanksgiving?
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Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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TheCollector
Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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Hundred Rabbits
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...
11 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,...
TheCollector
Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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Flashbak
In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and...
2 months ago
George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and flash photography when photographing animals. Shiras, a lawyer who became a politician, borrowed a hunting technique he learned from the Ojibwa tribe called jacklighting, when fire...
Trying to Understand...
My Substack in Other Languages.
Starting with Spanish.
a year ago
TheCollector
5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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TheCollector
The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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TheCollector
How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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10 Women Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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African History...
Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper...
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In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper reported that “The king shows himself only once a year to his people, going out of his court on horseback, accompanied by three or four hundred noblemen on horseback.”
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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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NY Denny Gallery Shuts Down After Ten Years
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Hidden History
The Story of the Cow
The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000...
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The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000 distinct breeds of Cattle in the world today, and somewhere between 1 and 1.5 billion individual animals, making them, by some counts, the fourth most numerous mammal in existence behind...
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Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
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What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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Summary of changes for February 2024
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 February.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added gimballed stove, open pantry, Little Ninj and LPG fume detection system. Updated galley refit and Western Canada(includes tidal/current...
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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Parmigianino Altarpiece Back On View After 10-Year Conservation
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Venice’s Nordic Pavilion Receives a Massive Chinese Dragon
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Should We Be Afraid of Technology?
Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
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Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter of Advice to People Living in the Year 2088
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There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters to the future, then publish them in Time magazine as part of an ad campaign. In fact, that time wasn’t so very long ago: it was the year 1988, to be precise, when no less an...
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Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?
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How Did Astrology and the Zodiac Differ Between Ancient Cultures?
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How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
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New Study Reveals Ancient Secrets of the Nebra Sky Disc
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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Stop Making Sense.
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There are no "why"s in our world.
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The Phoenician Spoken & Written Language: What You Need to Know
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Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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Jonathan Sacks: Are Science and Religion Enemies?
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Should We Own Stuff?
The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
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The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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Patterns in Humanity
Global crime
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
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How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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British Museum Receives Its Most Valuable Gift Ever
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Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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Slavoj Zizek on the 2 Types of Violence
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The Famous Mummies of the Inca and the Chinchorro
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Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
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Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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Classical Wisdom
Seneca On Clemency
A Letter To Emperor Nero
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
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“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
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Does FIRST Matter Most?
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
a year ago
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
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What Was the Council of Chalcedon?
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Discover the Lost Culture of San Agustín in Colombia
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works
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The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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African History...
When Africa discovered Europe
*my article for New Lines Magazine
a year ago
*my article for New Lines Magazine
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Do you have less free time than a medieval peasant?
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A look at the source and historical background behind a notorious claim
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Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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Classical Wisdom
Should Death Concern Us?
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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What to See on Vienna’s Long Night of Museums
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The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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Stoic or Not?
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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
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All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
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What Was the Italian Risorgimento?
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Wrong Side of...
Who speaks of the Armenians?
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Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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The complete history of Kano (999-1903)
journal of African cities chapter 9
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journal of African cities chapter 9
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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A Brief History of Cartography: The Importance of Maps in Civilization
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 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 May.
Summary Of Changes
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
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What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra...
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5 Deadliest Sword Designs
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What Is the Historical Context of Psalms?
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Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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Curator Rediscovers Ancient Caligula Bust in England
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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What Is Voguing?
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Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns?
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
a year ago
A pride of lions, a paddling of ducks, and....a herd of harlots?
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Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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This Changes Everything!
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
11 months ago
Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
Hundred Rabbits
an island to oneself
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things...
over a year ago
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
Many of the...
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic...
a year ago
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those...
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Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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4 Villains From the Arthurian Legends Who Really Existed
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander
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11 months ago
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of Hellenistic warfare and the triumph of the Roman legion. Our core question is a really common one: why was the Roman legion able to decisively defeat the Hellenistic...
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Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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Neanderthal Nonsense: Debunking Myths About Our Ancient Cousins
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos
Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge...
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Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge came upon this album of pictures. “I find images that resonate with me and then with that I try to bring their characters to life in my work,” she tells us. “I bought the slides on...