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a year ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, drew some new art(Mastodon), finalized a few translations(Mastodon), and released it the project on Itchio!
Thousand Rooms, translated the...
Res Obscura
Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude
At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
a year ago
At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
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John Martin’s Thrilling Illustrations for Paradise Lost (1827)
“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death...
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“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe” – The opening lines to Paradise Lost by John Milton, illustrated by John Martin John Milton’s (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) epic poem...
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Who Was the Only U.S. President to Serve More Than Two Terms?
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The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II
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History Today Feed
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
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The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a month ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Rabbit Waves and Logbooks. Updated woodstove installation, no windlass with 1 photo, mini dodger and Victoria to Sitka logbook with Week 3...
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Faces of Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale
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Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
7 months ago
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
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Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
10 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added galley refit, updated lifelines, seamed box cushions, and moisture prevention underliner.
Permacomputing, revamped the page.
Flappy Bird,...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented a way to shift multiple tiles at once, and...
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Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it...
3 weeks ago
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it possible not only to analyse such visual wonders as the Parthenon in terms of music theory, but also to identify their corresponding musical harmonies and melodies, writes Carmel...
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Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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What Were George Orwell’s Political Beliefs?
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7 Facts About Mountain Man Jim Bridger
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Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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History Today Feed
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
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Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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5 Strange Election Systems Around the World
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The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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Historic Copenhagen Stock Exchange Catches Fire
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What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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Hundred Rabbits
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...
Classical Wisdom
Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay?
Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
7 months ago
Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
TheCollector
The “Arch”: Who Was Desmond Tutu?
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8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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5 Works by Barbara Kruger on Gender and Feminism
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Jean Cocteau: A Complete Insight (Bio & Art)
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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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Encaustic Painting: An Ancient Art Form Explained
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6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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Trying to Understand...
Going to Pieces Slowly...
And then what?
a year ago
Wrong Side of...
Who speaks of the Armenians?
Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
a month ago
Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
TheCollector
Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
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4 months ago
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Was Alexander Great?
3 months ago
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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The History of Appalachia & Its People
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African History...
Kingdoms at the forest's edge: a history of Mangbetu (ca. 1750-1895)
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has...
7 months ago
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has a long and complex history shaped by its internal cultural developments and its unique ecology between the savannah and the forest. Among the most remarkable states that emerged in...
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Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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Classical Wisdom
Tyrannical Hell or Harmonious Utopia?
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
11 months ago
Plato’s Vision of an Ideal State
Dr Alun Withey
The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the...
10 months ago
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...
TheCollector
What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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6 Must-See English Castles
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Classical Wisdom
What is Plagiarism?
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
11 months ago
Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
TheCollector
The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit
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5 Quotes by Socrates Explained
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The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
6 months ago
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
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8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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a month ago
History Today Feed
Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
j.hoare
Thu, 12/14/2023 - 09:33
a year ago
Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
j.hoare
Thu, 12/14/2023 - 09:33
History Today Feed
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
j.hoare
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
a year ago
Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
j.hoare
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 10:52
TheCollector
12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race
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5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare
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Classical Wisdom
Ovid's Dating Advice
Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
10 months ago
Love Lessons from a Roman Poet
History Today Feed
The Tudor War on Libel
The Tudor War on Libel
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
a month ago
The Tudor War on Libel
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
a year ago
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
African History...
The General History of Africa
a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
8 months ago
a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
TheCollector
The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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What Is the History of Constitution Day in the US?
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What Is Appropriation in Art?
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Wieland: How Religious Extremism Shaped the 1st American Gothic Novel
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What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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7 months ago
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Queen Victoria’s Stalker
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
j.hoare
Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
11 months ago
Queen Victoria’s Stalker
j.hoare
Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
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When Philosophy Meets Oppression: Who Was Baruch Spinoza?
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Classical Wisdom
Emotions: Better Out or In?
Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
7 months ago
Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
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...
TheCollector
10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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African History...
A history of the Gonja Kingdom: (1550-1899)
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
a year ago
State and society in nothern ghana after the Mali empire's decline.
TheCollector
Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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7 months ago
Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
a year ago
Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
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Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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Rediscovered Quentin Metsys Madonna Heads to Auction
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7 months ago
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
How ASEAN Lost its Way
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
11 months ago
How ASEAN Lost its Way
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
TheCollector
German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
a month ago
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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African History...
A history of Zanzibar before the Omanis (600-1873)
Journal of African cities chapter 7
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 7
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Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
2 months ago
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
African History...
a brief note on the intellectual contributions of African scholars in the diaspora
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
8 months ago
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
Trying to Understand...
The End of Power Projection?
We can't get there from here, anymore.
a year ago
We can't get there from here, anymore.
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5 Most Hated Famous Artists
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Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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The Anne of Cleves Louvre Portrait Got a Makeover
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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African History...
a brief note on the long history of African diplomacy.
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
5 months ago
historical links between west africa and the Maghreb.
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Hunter Biden Did Know Who Acquired His Art
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11 months ago
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Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and...
2 months ago
What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and white hints and pulls you in whereas colour can distract and reflect? LensCulture magazine celebrates black and white photography with is 2024 Black and White awards. “The enduring...
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Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush
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Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
a year ago
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac Sprague (1811–1895) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter. He was a self-taught landscape, botanical and ornithological painter. Sprague served...
Classical Wisdom
Empedocles
The Philosopher God?
a year ago
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Who Is Kiki Smith?
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The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
10 months ago
The End of Britain’s Weeks-Long General Elections
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 10:39
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plato on Political Polarization
2 months ago
Plato on Political Polarization
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Everything You Need to Know About the Moai
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What Is the Will to Power?
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How Does Mona Hatoum Turn Ordinary Objects into Artworks?
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What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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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...
a year ago
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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England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal
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What Is Pragmatism? (Philosophy, History, Notable Proponents)
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
4 weeks ago
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
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Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China
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How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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