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Does Free Will Exist?
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This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
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Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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on the Nubian priests of Rome and the Moors of Spain
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Japan
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Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
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What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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6 Must-See English Castles
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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The True Knights Templar
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
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Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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What Is Capoeira?
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Hey everyone!
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January.
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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How Fritz the Cat Deconstructed 1960s America
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Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
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Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?
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With a few more books and a few old ideas.
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New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
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Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
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The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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where is the turtle farm
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We left our mooring at...
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Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
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Stolen Van Gogh Anonymously Returned to Dutch Museum
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Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
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Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
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Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China?
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What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
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What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time...
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Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time to bring them back.
These were classroom puzzles (although they were probably owned by kids at home too). They were mostly for Kindergarten-2nd grade kids and were "educational" as...
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Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed.
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How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
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Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death
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5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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What Are the Books of the Old Testament? Order & Overview
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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6 Outrageous Whaling Stories
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Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations
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Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
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Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare: What’s the Difference?
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French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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Top Aces of World War II: 7 Talented Fighter Pilots
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Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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5 Inventions That Revolutionized Agriculture
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7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
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It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
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The Rise of Fascism in Italy & The Two “Black Years”
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Switzerland’s Historic Neutrality: Why Doesn’t the Country Take Sides?
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Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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CrimethInc.
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Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of the battles of 2017-2020 all over again. But first, in order to understand the scale of what we’re up against, let’s look at how we got here.
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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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.
Summary Of Changes
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Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
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The First Nations of the Canadian Eastern Woodlands: A Brief History
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What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy
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What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge?
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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Meet The Orishas: 10 Afrobrazilian Gods and Goddesses
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Dr Alun Withey
The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
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As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
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A Day In The Life Of C.S. Lewis – Author of The Chronicle of Narnia
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“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.” ― C.S. Lewis In his 1955 book Surprised by joy : the...
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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“I Am Because We Are”: Introducing Ubuntu Philosophy
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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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What Are the 7 Most Spoken Languages in the World?
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10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
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Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
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Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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How Saint Helena and the True Cross Changed an Empire
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