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How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
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Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
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Why Do Religions Decline?
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
AND October 1, 2012...
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3 Beautiful Places in the North of England Tourists Tend to Neglect
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5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
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6 Assassinations That Changed History
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5 Populists of the Late Roman Republic
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
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Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed...
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
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In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain a loser At break of day I say goodnight When I lie down I have a great fear Of falling. – Ballade du concours de Blois by François Villon … Continue reading "Strange And...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
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Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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Slide Rule, released a little slide rule toy(Mastodon).
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Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK
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Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
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What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
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9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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Animals of the Ancient World
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
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“We’ve had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it’s time to have one showing how good it is” – Langston Hughes, The Sweet Flypaper of Life The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955), a collaboration between photographer Roy DeCarava and poet Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 –...
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Princess Diana ‘Black Sheep’ Jumper Sold for $1.1 M.
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What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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Res Obscura
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Aristotle's Rhetoric
The Power of Persuasion
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Happy Holidays
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From Anya, Joel and Frida
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What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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Religion in the Olympics
The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
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The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
A Collection of...
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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The Getty Museum Returns a Bronze Head to Turkey
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Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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Trying to Understand...
Let's Hear It For The "Underlying Causes."
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7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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Secrets of the Scythians
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7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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Summary of changes for October 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
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
Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
Wunderland...
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Rembrandt Used Arsenic to Paint “The Night Watch”
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
One I bought fifty years ago.
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One I bought fifty years ago.
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Kashmir: Prisoner of History?
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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Here’s How AI Completed Keith Haring’s Work
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Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also...
3 months ago
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also refers to my relationship to my country.’ — Harry Gruyaert Harry Gruyaert’s photographs show his preference for shooting in the street, where he can capture the unexpected, most...
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Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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Maurice Sendak Illustrates William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
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8 months ago
In 1967, Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) created eight illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). The booklet’s 275 copies were given to friends of the publisher, The Bodley Head, as Christmas gifts to mark the company’s 80th anniversary. The idea...
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Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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Wrong Side of...
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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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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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Belgian Revolution: The Independence Movement That Surprised Europe
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Research Reveals True Original Color of Van Gogh’s Irises
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Las Vegas Gallery to Sell $100 Million Leonardo Sculpture
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5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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‘Just Stop Oil’ Protestors Cover Stonehenge in Powder Paint
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The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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Seamus Heaney
A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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Do You Listen Well?
Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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Lessons on Listening from Plutarch
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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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Patterns in Humanity
The case for prisons
The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
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The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
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The Ancient World’s Greatest War
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The Ancient World’s Greatest War
weird medieval guys
An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns
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Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
Flashbak
Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white...
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This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails. A leading figure in early American abstraction, Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) was an American painter, poet,...
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Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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Summary of changes for January
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Summary of changes for February
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, released a program to create slideshows.
GrimGrains,...
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Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
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New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
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What Are the Best-known Post-Impressionist Paintings?
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Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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London Olympics and Tony Blair’s Decision on Parthenon Marbles
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Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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Who Were the Wright Brothers?
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Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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10 National and State Parks in the US Where You Can See Ancient Redwoods
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Pace Gallery Will Represent the Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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Farmer Discovers Massive Roman Mosaic in Türkiye
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The Stranger by Albert Camus: The Life of an Absurd Man
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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Global Inequality...
On general futility of political discussions with people
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people...
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Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Are There Still Lepers? The History of Leprosy in 5 Chapters
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5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide
Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
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Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist...
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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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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
On the Spot: Levi Roach
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/05/2024 - 11:25
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On the Spot: Levi Roach
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Patterns in Humanity
The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
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Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
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TheCollector interviewt die zeitgenössischen Künstlerin Toni Mauersberg
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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Over 1,000 Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame
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How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
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10 South American Artists You Should Know
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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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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When Was the First U.S. Presidential Election?
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021
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Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded by Ellis O. Jones, a former associate editor of Life magazine and editor of Ladies’ Home Journal who once called for the US Army and Navy to be disbanded and went on to head the...
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Will The West Eat Itself?
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
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Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
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So Where Do We Go From Here?
That's a good question.
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came...
over a year ago
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
Overcoming Bias
Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
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Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
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Who Are the Samaritans in the Bible?
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Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life
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African History...
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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What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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Plutarch and Pleasure
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The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
The Women’s War Breaks Out
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
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Three Cabins Left
Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
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Emperors, Conquerors, and Saints
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6 Micronations You Should Know
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The KGB After Stalin
The KGB After Stalin
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Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
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The KGB After Stalin
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Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/30/2024 - 10:39
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/30/2024 - 10:39
TheCollector
What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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