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Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
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NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIb: Pyrrhus
This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
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This is the second part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the performance of the Roman army and its legions in the third and second century BC against the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we sought to assess some of...
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Ivar the Boneless: History, TV Portrayals, and Viking Legends
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A Colossal Ramses II Statue Pieces Uncovered
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The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races
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Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
Saving Southeast Asia’s Sunken Warships
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Mon, 09/02/2024 - 10:00
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Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
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Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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Tue, 03/26/2024 -...
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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Tue, 03/26/2024 - 09:54
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What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
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You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
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“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
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Explore Montmartre Through Van Gogh’s Eyes: Views of Paris
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Virgil and the Aeneid
Rome's Greatest Epic
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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How Did Claude Monet Capture the Passing of Time?
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7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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Elton John Collection Goes on Sale After 21 Years
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Dreams of Space -...
Man-Made Moons (1960)
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
a year ago
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant to be an example of isotype graphic design. This was a visual language created to unite the world without using words at all: International System Of Typographic Picture Education,...
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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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...
8 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...
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Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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A History of the White House: The US President’s Home
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What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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What Is Theodicy?
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
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Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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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...
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What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the...
a year ago
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
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Velázquez Portrait of Spanish Queen Pulled by Sotheby’s
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
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Who Is the Archangel Michael? Analyzing an Angel
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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Neil Gaiman’s Collection Sale Surpasses Expectations
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Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
a year ago
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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What Was Operation Downfall?
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Who Won the Battle of Cold Harbor?
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The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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What Is the Origin of Tarot Cards?
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Weekend Roundup
Myths and Metamorphoses
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What Jewelry and Adornment Did the Celts Wear?
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5 Alluring Female Portraits Painted by Gustav Klimt
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6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ
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The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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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...
5 months ago
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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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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Brushing for Britain
Brushing for Britain
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
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Brushing for Britain
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Wed, 11/06/2024 - 10:37
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Rat Collection by Banksy Comes Up for Auction
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Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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What Was the First Triumvirate?
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African History...
The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen
a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
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a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
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Alexander’s Destruction of Thebes in 335 BCE (Battle & Aftermath)
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
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The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
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5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained
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Who is Mierle Laderman Ukeles?
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Who Was Django Reinhardt?
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War
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How Can We Love Ourselves?
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
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Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
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Great or the Greatest? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
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The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
3 months ago
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it...
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“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it is 4pm in dear old England and it is carelessness of this kind that makes my eyes steel slits of blue. – Letter to James Bond author Ian Fleming Many … Continue reading "Dear...
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Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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Res Obscura
A very deep history of Halloween
Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
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Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
Classical Wisdom
Jews in the Roman Bathhouse
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
a year ago
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
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The First Biographers
...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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The World’s Most Prestigious Art Fairs (By Continent/Region)
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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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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore)
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How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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What Is the Hill of the Buddha?
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Face to Face Exhibit Offers Face Time With Fayum Portraits
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Watch TV-CBGB – A Punk Sitcom From 1981
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews,...
8 months ago
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews, comedy skits, and live performances”. Stuart Newman, a member of the The Roustabouts, one of the groups featured on the show – along with Idiot Savant, The Hard, Jo Marshall, Shrapnel...
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The Anne of Cleves Louvre Portrait Got a Makeover
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Trying to Understand...
Getting Used To Being Weak.
It's worse than you probably imagine.
a year ago
It's worse than you probably imagine.
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
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What’s the History of Gin?
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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Trying to Understand...
I Have No Brain But I Must Scream.
But why aren't people in other countries listening?
a year ago
But why aren't people in other countries listening?
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What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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Here’s What to Know About the Oldest High School in America
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4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine...
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book. The drug was illegal – still is, of course – and publishing a book on it is risky. But it an effort to produce the...
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Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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Who Was William Wallace? Fact vs. Fiction
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Who is Buried in the Valley of the Kings?
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Who Were the 4 Key Players of the Risorgimento?
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Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human...
a year ago
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human beings, if they care about them at all?
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Greece's Forgotten Legacy
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
a year ago
Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
Dreams of Space -...
Judy Space Puzzles (1970s)
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time...
a month ago
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!
I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time to bring them back.
These were classroom puzzles (although they were probably owned by kids at home too). They were mostly for Kindergarten-2nd grade kids and were "educational" as...
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Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
11 months ago
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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Patterns in Humanity
The case for prisons
The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
3 months ago
The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
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This Underrated, Historic Small Town Is a Great Alternative to Austin, Texas
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African History...
Roads and wheeled transport in African history.
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
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Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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French Culture Minister Calls For Climate Activism Penalties
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The Future of US Elections: Potential Changes and Emerging Issues
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Overcoming Bias
Hail Jeffrey Wernick
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional...
2 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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