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leleuvia
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We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
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This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its...
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15 Facts About Genghis Khan & His Legacy
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10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World
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The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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Is Subjective Equal to Objective?
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Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the middle of winter, and finally, around four months later, the first real spring day had arrived. The sun bore her rays magnificently, forcing the city’s residents into an ant-like...
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The Inuit and the Canadian Arctic: A Brief History
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Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
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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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Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
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The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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Bringing It All Back Home
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
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Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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What Was Operation Downfall?
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was an American self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left a vast archive of poetry, apocalyptic paintings, paintbrushes made with his wife’s hair, drawings, notebooks, audio tapes and hundreds of sculptures made from chicken bones,...
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The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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Jackie Kennedy’s Georgetown Mansion Goes on Sale
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Classical Wisdom
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The Mystery of the Mind
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Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
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More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
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Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections
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6 Interpretative Copies of Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass
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Robert Fergusson: Scotia’s Bard
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
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The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French readers in 1847. Baudelaire, who saw Poe as a “sacred soul” and something of a kindred spirit, translated many of the American writer’s words into French, including Poe’s poem The...
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Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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Are Propaganda and Politics Inevitable Bedfellows?
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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The Balloon Museum Opens in London
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Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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Pace Gallery to Represent Paul Thek Estate
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Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
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4 Controversial Films: What Horrifies Movie Critics?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
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What Did Francis Bacon Mean by “Knowledge Is Power”?
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6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
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Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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Aristotle on Friendship
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Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
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How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History
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What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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8 Works of Paul Klee You Should Know
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You...
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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Free French Bombers Over France
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Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
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“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
Patterns in Humanity
When Lightning Strikes... Literally
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A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
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You And Whose Army?
NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
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NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
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Ancien Régime France: 4 Harsh Realities of Life Before the Revolution
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What Was the Italian Risorgimento?
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UK Gallery to Recreate “Groundbreaking” 1907 Exhibition
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5 Royals Who Behaved Badly
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Trying to Understand...
France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
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Again. In a manner of speaking.
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
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You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain – America, A Horse With No Name We don’t know where British … Continue reading "American...
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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African History...
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On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
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On the contribution of Muslim women in African history.
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The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
a year ago
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
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Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
a month ago
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
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What Was Kantai Kessen?
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11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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Who Was Django Reinhardt?
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Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re...
a month ago
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re their likelihood and desirability. (I later added influence.) Here are best fit priorities (relative to 100 max), sorted by priority sum:
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The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
JamesHoare
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition
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Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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The West is Weak Where it Matters ...
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
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...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
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Journal of African cities chapter 5
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5 Most Influential Blues Musicians of All Time
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CrimethInc.
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Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
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Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World?
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The 21st Amendment: The Only Amendment That Repealed Another
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Meet Queen Cat, Secret Cat and Dunce Cat From Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911)
The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your...
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The cat is regal in Kittens and Cats: A First Reader, 1911. The premise is simple: dress up your cat, take a picture and give it a witty caption. So we get to meet Hero Cat, Queen Cat, Party Cat and the very much of its time Dunce Cat. Author Eulalie Osgood Grover … Continue...
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Are There Still Lepers? The History of Leprosy in 5 Chapters
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Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb
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The Great Fire of Smyrna
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The Great Fire of Smyrna
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria: A Wonder of The Ancient World
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What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
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Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
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7 Famous Surrealist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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6 Micronations You Should Know
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What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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Wrong Side of...
Your favourite half-British president
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Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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Going to Pieces Slowly...
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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10 Historical Places to Visit in Sussex
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Why Is Boston Called Beantown?
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Passports? Or Borders?
Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
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Watch now (23 sec) | Crossing with Radiohead
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Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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African History...
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State and society on Africa's largest island.
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State and society on Africa's largest island.
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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Get to Know Palazzo Doria Pamphilj & Its Fascinating History
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Why Are There Two Virginias?
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank...
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Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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Aeneas: Founder of Rome
The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
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The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow?
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What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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The Philosophy of Time: Study the Nature of Past, Present, and Future
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Arrows – Love And Punishment in Vintage Snapshots
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some...
5 months ago
The latest submission for collector supreme Robert E. Jackson focuses on arrows in snapshots. Some have been drawn on the printed photo with pen, others form part of the image itself. The use of bows and arrows by humans predates recorded history and is common to most...
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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