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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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4 Egyptian Myths That Inspired Cinema
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From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
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5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
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Hey everyone!
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
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The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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More Than A Philosopher
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What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
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What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor?
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Another of my essays in French.
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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What Was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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When Did World War II Start and End?
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Cotton & How It Changed the World
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s...
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US President or American Caesar?
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Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
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Alexandre Dumas: The Life & Legacy of a Great Novelist
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Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
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What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop?
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William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
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When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
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Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
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Was Walt Whitman a Transcendentalist?
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Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works
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Who Were the Axis Powers?
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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On the Spot: Kristin Semmens
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How Did Descartes View Animals?
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Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
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When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made...
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Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
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10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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Do We Need Passports? Or Borders?
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What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews?
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The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness
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The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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Trying to Understand...
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How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
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Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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Why Did Friedrich Nietzsche Say ‘God Is Dead’?
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What Does It Take to Become a US President?
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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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...
6 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
100r.co, added Frances Bay, Yuculta and Dent Rapids, Shoal Bay, Port Neville, Telegraph Cove, Port McNeill, Fury Cove, Prince Rupert, B.C. north coast...
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10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
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The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
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The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted in one of the continent's longest-standing conflicts, which threatens to destroy the country's social fabric and its historical heritage. Just as the plight of modern Darfur...
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure
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Andrei Molodkin Holds Art Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life
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Flashbak
Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos...
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Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
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1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was sold, women raged in raucous nightclubs, gay rights found its voice, Madonna joined her first band, BLADE used trains as his canvas and In 1981, 22-year-old Christopher Morris was...
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Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
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Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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10 Small but Historic Countries You Didn’t Know About
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Inventing Cyrillic
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Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
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Inventing Cyrillic
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Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
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11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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Who Are the Most Famous Sorceresses of Greek Mythology?
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A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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Calm in the Face of Crisis
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Trees at Night: Art Young’s Haunting Silhouettes, 1927
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands...
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“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. As a man is, so he sees.” – William Blake Arthur Henry Young – better known as Art Young (January 14, 1866–December 29, 1943) – saw humanity in the … Continue...
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How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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History Today Feed
How Mexico Fought Franco
How Mexico Fought Franco
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Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
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How Mexico Fought Franco
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Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
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Artemisia of Caria
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
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Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
TheCollector
What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
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Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
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TheCollector
What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
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Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
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The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)
Journal of African cities chapter 8
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Journal of African cities chapter 8
Hundred Rabbits
Dry Toilet Installation
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer...
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The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer it over the ready-made models. We learned tons doing it, and now our toilet is perfectly suited to our space. The pandemic has pushed more people into boat and van living (to travel...
African History...
The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park...
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At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
Flashbak
AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
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From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Who is the Real FDR?
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Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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African History...
on the Nubian priests of Rome and the Moors of Spain
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When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain and became one of the most celebrated Andalusian poets, he wasn't the first from his region to visit the Moorish kingdom.
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Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
4 months ago
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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History Today Feed
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
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The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
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Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
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Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
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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.”
History Today Feed
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
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Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
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The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
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Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
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This Underrated, Historic Small Town Is a Great Alternative to Austin, Texas
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What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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Open Culture
Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
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A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further sightings in various locations in the region have been lodged on a daily basis, and anxieties about the origin and purpose of these unidentified flying objects have grown apace. “We...
Dreams of Space -...
I Want To Be A Space Pilot (1961)
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
I Want To Be A Space Pilot is part of a...
a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing)
I Want To Be A Space Pilot is part of a series of children's books called "I want to be..." They are essentially a beginning to read career book. I like the very basic illustrations and the straightforward text. I also...
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5 Strange Election Systems Around the World
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review
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Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
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Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution?
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French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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How to Explore the Galapagos Islands for Its Natural Wonders
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Poland Nixes Planned Venice Biennale Pavilion
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New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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What Is Hagia Sophia & Who Built It?
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Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
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Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death
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What Was Kantai Kessen?
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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The Men Who Sacked Rome: Who Were the Vandals?
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
7 months ago
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
TheCollector
Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plutarch and Pleasure
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Why Don’t We WANT To Be Wrong?
How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
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How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
TheCollector
Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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Philosophy and Children
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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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How to Celebrate the Love of Learning
Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
a year ago
Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
TheCollector
Art Basel Miami Beach Faces Protests
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/18/2024 - 06:00
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/18/2024 - 06:00
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...
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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What Was the War of Jenkins’ Ear?
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