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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show
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Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
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Columbine 25 Years On
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The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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Discovery in Spain Could Change View on Ancient Gender Roles
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by T. S. Eliot
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Bored with Christmas cards, Richard de la Mare (1901–86), son of the poet Walter de la Mare and director of production at London-based publisher Faber & Gwyer (later Faber and Faber), hit upon the idea of sending poetry pamphlets, each featuring the work of well-known writers and...
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Father of Emperor Caligula: Who Was Germanicus?
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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 October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal.
Left, added a...
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Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
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over a year ago
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef.
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What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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The Great Fire of Smyrna
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What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
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Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
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Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
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What Is the History and Meaning of Music?
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What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
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6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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...and the Master of Roman Comedy
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How Did the Tudors Celebrate Christmas?
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4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
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What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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CrimethInc.
Insurgent Survival : Reflections on the Fight Against Sweeps Targeting the Homeless in Austin, Texas
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In 2019, militants in Austin, Texas started an organization with the aim of defending homeless camps against sweeps—forced removals disguised as “cleanups” carried out by cops and work crews. This organization, Stop the Sweeps, intervened in a cycle of struggles that included the...
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
10 months ago
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
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Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
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Cronus: The Titan Leader in Greek Mythology
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Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times
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Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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Why Don’t We WANT To Be Wrong?
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
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Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
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Jamestown: The Myth & Mystery of America’s First Permanent Colony
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7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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Dr Alun Withey
How Much?! Barbers & the Price of Shaving.
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and,...
over a year ago
One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
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Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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Dreams of Space -...
Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963)
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11 months ago
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets.
Coombs, Charles. Illustrated by Foor, R. H. Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power. New York: William Morrow and Co. (96 p.)...
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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Hidden History
The Last Day of World War One
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
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At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
Classical Wisdom
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What Was the Rhodesian Bush War?
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7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye
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What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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Another Of My Essays in French
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8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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A Woman I Once Knew: A Photographer Records Her Changing Body Over Five Decades
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In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana), carrying more than 6,000 pieces of cloth which was to be exchanged for gold.
African History...
The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen
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a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
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Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion
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3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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What Was the Italian Risorgimento?
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What’s the Creation Myth in Norse Mythology?
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Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
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Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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The Anat Ebgi Gallery Expands to Tribeca
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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Toxic Walls: Why Was Victorian Green Wallpaper So Deadly?
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There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries
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Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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Empire building and Government in the Yorubaland: a history of Oyo (1600-1836)
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Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
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10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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What Was the First Written Language?
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Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and...
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Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and brew beer, the place has been sanctuary to immigrants for centuries and is now home to a large Bangladeshi community. In the 17th century, French Huguenots arrived and brought with...
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The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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"He spoke of computers with some awe"
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Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime
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Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch $1 Million
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