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Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
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What Are the 6 Tallest Mountains in Alaska?
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How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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5 Fascinating Tales of Baba Yaga, the Slavic Witch
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What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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Who Was the Real Good King Wenceslas Behind the Christmas Carol?
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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What Is Gnosticism?
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Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East)
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Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good?
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Summary of changes for September 2023
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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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
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Who Was Vernon Lee?
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Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
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What is Postmodern Art? The Genre Defined in 8 Iconic Works
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10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
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“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
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a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
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Euripides’ Lost Plays
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
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10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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1950s American Culture: Suburbia, the American Dream, & Inequality
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Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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Germanus of Auxerre and His Connection to Arthurian Legends
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Celebrating Diversity at The National Mall’s Outdoor Show
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter...
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We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
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12 Facts About Marina Abramović and Her Work
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Clement Attlee: Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister?
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4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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What Was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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government in central Africa.
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The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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How the CCP is Closing China
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Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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Top 10 Museums to Visit in New York City
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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Who Were the Maccabees?
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The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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Who Was Julian?
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Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
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Samnite Wars: How Rome Conquered the Samnites (History & Aftermath)
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Hidden History
The Ancient Egyptian Game of Mehen
Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But...
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Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But recent study has completely changed the way we think about this game. History In 1861, French archaeologists Auguste Mariette and Jacques de Morgan found a tomb at Saqqara that was...
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Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the...
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From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
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In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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Interview with Dr. Mark Solms on Freud & Surrealism
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Death of a Samurai Legend
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
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Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Slide Rule, released a little slide rule toy(Mastodon).
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How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
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At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
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The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
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Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
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And the Palace where it was found...
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Ancient Philosophy for Children
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Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
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London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
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Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis verba fecit… This week we’re taking a brief look, by ACOUP Senate request, at Greek and Phoenician colonization in the ancient Mediterranean. In particular, the focus requested was...
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
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The KGB After Stalin
The KGB After Stalin
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The KGB After Stalin
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10 Small but Historic Countries You Didn’t Know About
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Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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Journal of African cities chapter 6
Open Culture
Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from...
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Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Insects’ Christmas, above. In addition to offering brief respite from the chaos of consumerism and modern expectations, this...
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History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
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We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
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Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
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The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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