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The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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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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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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Global Inequality...
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I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
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Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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Poland Nixes Planned Venice Biennale Pavilion
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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50 Years of Cyprus Divided
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The Indigenous Architecture of the Cosmos in the Amazon
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How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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Why Read Modern Books?
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Now Available: Night Drew Her Sable Cloak
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The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name?
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know
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American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles...
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Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
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Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
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Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this week, but not quite ready to get started yet. I’m also thinking, perhaps before that, of doing a short post or set of posts on the organization of non-state ‘tribal’ societies in...
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Danish Unknown Royal Family Discovered Thanks to Ring
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Lightning Strikes Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine
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St. Petersburg: A History of the City Built on Bones
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
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The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
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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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Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June
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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, improved the Uxntal reference sheet and improved the Uxntal...
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7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising
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Incredible Bronze Age Architecture From the Near East and the Aegean
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A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
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In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000 employees lost their jobs. And another part of old New York went the way of the Automat and the Times Square peep show. The New York State Legislature enacted its first off-track betting...
African History...
Empire building and Government in the Yorubaland: a history of Oyo (1600-1836)
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
over a year ago
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other...
a year ago
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 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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