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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
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Candles and Kalshnikovs.
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2023
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 March.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, added 100r logo to splash screen on the rom.
100r.co, added a new page: diy carbonation system. Updated Saving fuel, Engine rebuild and...
TheCollector
The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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6 months ago
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René Descartes’ Legacy: The Persistence of Mind-Body Dualism
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11 months ago
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3 Most Notable Republican Presidents in US History
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Where did the time go?
Important Notice
a month ago
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Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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Flashbak
Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom...
5 months ago
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
African History...
Roads and wheeled transport in African history.
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
a year ago
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
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Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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What Was Dante’s Political Philosophy?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb)...
a year ago
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro (7 Things to Do)
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
The Value of Wills to Historians
The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
8 months ago
The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
TheCollector
Why Did the 1904 Olympic Marathon End in Disaster?
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Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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Classical Wisdom
Do Individuals Move the Course of History?
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
2 months ago
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
TheCollector
What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
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How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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4 months ago
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Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
4 months ago
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
TheCollector
Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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a year ago
Flashbak
Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late...
4 months ago
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late 1970s to 1980. Upon graduating from The New England School of Photography in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974, he immediately took to the streets. Here he tell us his story of living in...
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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11 months ago
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What’s the History of Gin?
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9 months ago
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Heracles Captures the Cretan Bull: The Hero’s Seventh Labor
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7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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5 Female Artists From South America That You Should Know
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Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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4 months ago
Flashbak
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...
4 months ago
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 Violent Race Riots of the Red Summer of 1919
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World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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What Are the Top 7 Must-See Attractions in Mallorca?
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Origins of Stoicism
5 months ago
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The 3 Most Important Ideas from the Vienna Circle
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What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration?
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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6 (In)Famous Gunslingers of the Wild West
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Hitler’s Inner Circle: The 7 Most Powerful Figures in the Third Reich
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7 months ago
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6 Misconceptions About Biblical Angels
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Ancient Marble Zeus Head Unearthed in Türkiye
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5 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Genes and social stratification
How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
8 months ago
How genes affect socioeconomic success, and its consequences for society's structure.
TheCollector
What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Olympics Special
5 months ago
Wrong Side of...
The Scottish Play
Canon Club podcast: Macbeth
a month ago
Canon Club podcast: Macbeth
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What Was the Importance of Caesarea in Christianity?
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weird medieval guys
Medieval Muslims loved their cats so much
Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
a year ago
Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had...
9 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
Flashbak
Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage....
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“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage. Chance brought me together with a crowd of unknowns. It was up to me to parse them out and magnify the moment.” – Joni Sternbach on her pictures of NYC Subway Passengers in the 1970s ...
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Historic Copenhagen Stock Exchange Catches Fire
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8 months ago
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What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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Classical Wisdom
The Life of Aristotle
More Than A Philosopher
12 months ago
Classical Wisdom
A Book 100 Years in the Making
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
a month ago
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
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Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’...
3 months ago
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 08:00
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Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:08
a month ago
On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:08
TheCollector
Discover the Lost Culture of San Agustín in Colombia
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How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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10 Forgotten US Presidents
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10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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What Are the 7 Most Spoken Languages in the World?
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
10 months ago
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the triumph of the Roman legions in the third and second century over the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we looked at some of the operational and strategic...
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” –...
3 months ago
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” – Meryl Meisler Before cameras became ubiquitous and the billions of instantly sharable and instantly forgettable pictures formed the backdrop to our more insular digital lives,...
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Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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UNESCO Creates a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
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Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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Classical Wisdom
Do You Believe in Magic?
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
8 months ago
Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
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How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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Coach Rusty’s Art Goes Interactive With Top Tier Authentics
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Open Culture
The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
2 weeks ago
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
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5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
2 weeks ago
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Who Was African American Lawman Bass Reeves?
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What Is the History of Hipster Culture?
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Flashbak
A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
8 months ago
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an...
Classical Wisdom
Confessions from a Classics Lover
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
6 months ago
How to learn -or relearn- from the ancients
Overcoming Bias
Hail Jeffrey Wernick
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional...
4 weeks ago
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional markets to make org decisions.
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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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Who Were the Important Jewish Philosophers of the Medieval Period?
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Patterns in Humanity
Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid...
a year ago
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid advancements in science and technology happening in the 1400s. With improvements in cartography, ship and other maritime technology, and an increased desire to understand and discover...
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Women Portraitists of the Renaissance: A League of Their Own
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
a year ago
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
Overcoming Bias
Conquest and Liberation of Academia
During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
3 weeks ago
During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
Wrong Side of...
Keeping it in the Family
Britain’s Cousin Marriage Conundrum
3 weeks ago
Britain’s Cousin Marriage Conundrum
History Today Feed
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
9 months ago
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
Dreams of Space -...
Blast Off (1973)
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full...
a year ago
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
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6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
a month ago
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
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Artists Rejected from Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
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8 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical...
5 months ago
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical assumptions of Imperator: Rome, a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, set during the rise and collapse of the Roman Republic from 304-27 BC and covering the broader...
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What Was Cultural Life in the Weimar Republic Like?
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch $1 Million
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Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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Dreams of Space -...
Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962)
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current...
a year ago
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
Here is a straight history book of an current (at the time) and wonderful event in global communication. We has lost track of how satellites have changed our lives and made the earth a smaller place. It is a little dull in...
African History...
The empire of Kong (ca. 1710-1915): a cultural legacy of medieval Mali.
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park...
5 months ago
At the close of the 18th century, the West African hosts of the Scottish traveler Mungo Park informed him of a range of mountains situated in "a large and powerful kingdom called Kong".
TheCollector
How Does Mona Hatoum Turn Ordinary Objects into Artworks?
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Be Skeptics?
Is it good to question everything?
9 months ago
Is it good to question everything?
TheCollector
Why Should You Seek Ignorance?
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4 months ago
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Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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a year ago
Flashbak
Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
5 months ago
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
History Today Feed
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
7 months ago
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
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