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When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres tour, Blondie got the call. Georgia-based southern rockers Stillwater couldn’t play. So would the New Yorkers deliver what 18,000 fans of the Canadian rockers packed into the...
Hidden History
Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
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(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one of the most consequential US elections in modern history.) The story of a Pennsylvania Dutch classic dessert is as colorful as its unusual name… In 1517, Martin Luther began a...
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Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)?
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What Is the History of the Blues?
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Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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The 5 Most Beautiful Buildings in Valencia
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What Was the Chaco War?
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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History Today Feed
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
TheCollector
Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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Who Is the Archangel Gabriel?
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What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
TheCollector
5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
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Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
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‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review
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Mon, 09/23/2024 - 08:00
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Inventing Cyrillic
Inventing Cyrillic
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Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
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Inventing Cyrillic
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
TheCollector
What Is the Invention of Tradition? (3 Stories)
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The Indian Citizenship Act
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Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
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The Indian Citizenship Act
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Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
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France’s Long March Against Racism
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France’s Long March Against Racism
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Sun, 12/03/2023 - 01:01
TheCollector
What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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African History...
A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD
Journal of African cities chapter 6
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Journal of African cities chapter 6
TheCollector
Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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Trying to Understand...
A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
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Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
TheCollector
Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man
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TheCollector
Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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Tolkien and the Classics
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
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TheCollector
Mao’s Great Leap Forward & How It Killed Millions
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Warfare in the Bronze Age: Tactics, Weapons, Battles
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Weekend Roundup
Ancient Philosophy for Children
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Ancient Philosophy for Children
TheCollector
The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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TheCollector
Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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CrimethInc.
How to Organize an Assembly : Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism
There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to...
a month ago
There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to solve their problems, suddenly realize that their only hope is to make contact with others like themselves and work together. Perhaps a hurricane has just torn through the state,...
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How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
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Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
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Flashbak
Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie Who Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Stay On The Show
Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther...
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Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) convinced her to remain on Star Trek after she had decided to leave the series for a starring role on Broadway. In 1966, Star Trek creator...
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Happy Holidays
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History Today Feed
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
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‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
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Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
History Today Feed
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
j.hoare
Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
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‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
j.hoare
Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
TheCollector
How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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TheCollector
Francis Bacon Portrait of George Dyer to Sell at Sotheby’s
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The Value of Wills to Historians
The Value of Wills to Historians
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Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
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The Value of Wills to Historians
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
Hundred Rabbits
leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
over a year ago
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...
TheCollector
Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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Empress Theodora
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Changing Seasons
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TheCollector
What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
a year ago
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
Res Obscura
On 17th century "cocaine"
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A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
TheCollector
8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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The Mother Goddess of Rome
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And Her Controversial Religion
TheCollector
The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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The Rise of Television & The Power of Images in US Elections
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James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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Flashbak
26 Found Photos of Australian Life In the 1970s
The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry...
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The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry Humphries (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) created Sir Les Patterson and made him Australia’s cultural ambassador. Drunk, lecherous and offensive, after Sir Les made his debut...
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Their Enemies The Russians
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a year ago
But what about the rest of us?
TheCollector
7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
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The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in Syria are not over. Israel has bombed hundreds of locations around the country and seized a considerable amount of land in the southwest, while Turkish proxy forces are threatening...
Flashbak
1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
8 months ago
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
TheCollector
Isadora Duncan: 12 Facts About the Pioneer of Modern Dance
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Classical Wisdom
The Roman Socrates
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
5 months ago
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
TheCollector
History of the Berlin Wall: From Its Construction to Its Destruction
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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Hundred Rabbits
Dry Toilet Installation
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer...
over a year ago
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer it over the ready-made models. We learned tons doing it, and now our toilet is perfectly suited to our space. The pandemic has pushed more people into boat and van living (to travel...
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What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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7 Prominent Photorealist Artists in the World Today
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7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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Who Were the Utopian Socialists?
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The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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Dutch Influence in Alsatian Art: 5 Artists Known for Their Still-Lifes
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Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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Some people never grow up.
TheCollector
Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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Flashbak
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...
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Who Was England’s Black Prince?
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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Have A Weird Christmas With Our Album Of Vintage Photo Oddities
There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E....
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There’s a weird vibe running through this album of Christmas images. Harvested from Robert E. Jackson’s phenomenal collection of snapshots we see all kinds of unusual goings on. One Christmas card features a photo of the sender covered in rats; on another a man canoodles a...
TheCollector
3 Beautiful Places in the North of England Tourists Tend to Neglect
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TheCollector
Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added charging electronics, solar cooking and solar...
TheCollector
Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love
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Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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Why Is Joan of Arc a Feminist Icon in Modern Times?
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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Mon, 04/22/2024 - 15:00
TheCollector
Lisa Schiff Art Collection Could Hit the Auction Block
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6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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British Museum Receives Its Most Valuable Gift Ever
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Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America
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African History...
a complete history of Mombasa ca. 600-1895.
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Journal of African cities: chapter 13
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Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
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What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy?
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
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Journal of African cities chapter 7
History Today Feed
US President or American Caesar?
US President or American Caesar?
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
2 months ago
US President or American Caesar?
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial
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5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s...
4 months ago
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the...
Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
7 months ago
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...
TheCollector
5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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