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Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
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How Iran Won the West
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
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6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
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Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
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5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine
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What Is the Origin and Significance of Columbus Day?
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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Summary of changes for December
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Fireside Friday, April 12, 2024
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
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Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for the annual Society for Military History conference coming at the end of next week. In an...
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Santa and The Space Men
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KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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Dutch Influence in Alsatian Art: 5 Artists Known for Their Still-Lifes
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Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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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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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
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Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
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Silvio Berlusconi’s Worthless Art Collection
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
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10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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A History of Phantom Pain
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Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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But what about the rest of us?
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
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Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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Who Am I, Really? A Philosophical Quest for Self-Discovery
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Street Shots of New York City in 1978
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Who Were the Allied Powers?
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Rare Ancient Coin Collection Found in Jordan Valley
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5 Influential African Leaders of the 20th Century
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Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
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What should we do with Seneca?
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War Is Complicated.
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And not just the fighting bit.
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Frick Collection Announces April 2025 Reopening
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The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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Sappho
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Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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Ancient Greek Art
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Russia/Ukraine is not a sports competition.
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Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
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Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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*my article for New Lines Magazine
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
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Let's Hear It For The "Underlying Causes."
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Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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Man-Made Moons (1960)
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Books To Help Us Understand The World?
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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Wed, 08/28/2024 - 11:18
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New Study May Reveal Stonehenge’s Mysterious Origins
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest
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A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’?
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Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia?
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
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Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
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Beware the Lides of March
Beware the Lides of March
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Beware the Lides of March
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Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
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What Are the Strengths of Determinism?
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
12 months ago
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
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The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
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Summary of changes for August 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
4 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added new pages: Sointula, Johnstone Strait anchorages, and Central coast anchorages. Updated existing pages: added Yuculta and Dent rapids with...
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What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth?
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The Pompeii Mosaics
Frozen by Fire
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