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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Nuehmahr review
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Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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Classical Wisdom
Religion in the Olympics
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The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
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Why the Organ Split the Church
Why the Organ Split the Church
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Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
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Why the Organ Split the Church
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Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:05
TheCollector
The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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Flashbak
The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always...
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The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might
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TheCollector
Fiction vs Fantasy: What’s the Difference?
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The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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The Dutch Throne in an Exhibition for the First Time
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Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Fra Angelico
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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The Roman Catholic War on Wigs
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TheCollector
The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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Top 9 Places to Visit in South Africa
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How to Explore the Galapagos Islands for Its Natural Wonders
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Constantine Replica Statue Lands in Rome
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Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Myths and Metamorphoses
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Flashbak
Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the...
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In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
Open Culture
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind....
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We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
TheCollector
Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained
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Ancient Greek Art
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What Are the 6 Tallest Mountains in Alaska?
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How Can We Separate History from Myth?
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And does it need to be true to be important?
TheCollector
7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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Classical Wisdom
How to Steal From Homer
Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
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Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
Dr Alun Withey
Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.
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Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the spirit! A good holiday is generally viewed as a tonic, and holiday company advertisements extol the virtues of ‘getting away’, encountering new places, people and cultures and (if...
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The Two Big Games
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TheCollector
Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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TheCollector
Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2024
Hey everyone!
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7 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April.
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TheCollector
The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President
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Who Is the Father of Pentecostalism?
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What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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What Is Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology?
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7 Fascinating Facts About the Vestal Virgins
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New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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The End of the World?
a year ago
TheCollector
Artist Seals Himself in Glass Bottle at Paris Olympic Stadium
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Trying to Understand...
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There are no "why"s in our world.
TheCollector
Faces of Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
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Top 5 Places to See the Northern Lights
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Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’?
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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Why Visit Northumberland? : Britain’s Historic Hidden Gem
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African History...
Roads and wheeled transport in African history.
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Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
TheCollector
Yuruparí: Amazon’s Unique Myth of Creation & Ritual of Passage
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Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
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Flashbak
16 Characters From A Film Never Made : Found Photos From The American Dream
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Film noir was coined in 1946 by the Italian-born French critic Nino Frank to describe the crime thrillers laced with smoky cynicism, femme fatales and amoral ambiguity first produced by Hollywood in the 1940s. “These ‘dark’ films, these films noirs, no longer have anything in...
TheCollector
U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text...
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First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text book made from tempera and gold leaf on parchment. Shelf marked Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 0457, the work is a Latin translation of Avicenna’s Canon medicinae, one of...
TheCollector
9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic...
a year ago
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triump, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great...
10 months ago
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Romans and the heirs of Alexander, asking the question, “What can defeat a Macedonian sarisa-phalanx?” Last time, we started looking at...
TheCollector
How Did Switzerland Become a Country?
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TheCollector
How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
the rock of polynesia
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's...
over a year ago
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow?
We'd also heard that the school...
A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review...
2 weeks ago
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
TheCollector
The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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TheCollector
What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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History Today Feed
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
j.hoare
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
a year ago
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
j.hoare
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
Flashbak
Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain...
6 months ago
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain a loser At break of day I say goodnight When I lie down I have a great fear Of falling. – Ballade du concours de Blois by François Villon … Continue reading "Strange And...
Trying to Understand...
Useless in Gaza
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
a year ago
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
Overcoming Bias
Cultural Scenario Probabilities
On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative...
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On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative likelihood, desirability, and ease of influence.
Classical Wisdom
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Was Alexander Great?
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TheCollector
Is the Earth Flat? The Bizarre Belief That Refuses to Die
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Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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What Was Kristallnacht? The Horrors of the Night of Broken Glass
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Ancient Marble Zeus Head Unearthed in Türkiye
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The First Anarchist: Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
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How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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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...
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I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional markets to make org decisions.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December 2023
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
11 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
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100r.co, added solar cooking experiment, making seamed box cushions, making saloon cushions, moisture prevention underliner, and board games. Updated...
TheCollector
Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Be More Naked?
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
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Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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The Nepalese Royal Massacre: Royalty Meets True Crime
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Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel
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1980s NYC and the Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
9 months ago
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
TheCollector
Who Were the Armored Pioneers Between the World Wars?
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The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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Flashbak
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
Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
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This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
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Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969 – The Art of Seeing Sound And Hearing With Your Whole Body
In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a...
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In 1969 Bernhard Leitner (born 1938) created his Soundcube, an experiment into how sound moves in a defined space and its effects on the human body. The Soundcube, a “sound-space object”, is a room of 64 loudspeakers in which the sound becomes a form of architecture. For Leitner,...
TheCollector
Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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History Today Feed
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
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‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
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Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
Classical Wisdom
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Aristotle's Politics
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TheCollector
Rastafari Philosophical Tenets: Divinity Within & African Redemption
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Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and...
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Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and brew beer, the place has been sanctuary to immigrants for centuries and is now home to a large Bangladeshi community. In the 17th century, French Huguenots arrived and brought with...
TheCollector
A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece
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Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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African History...
a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
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A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
TheCollector
Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
The First Anglo-Burmese War
The First Anglo-Burmese War
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
JamesHoare
Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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Classical Wisdom
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Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
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Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
TheCollector
The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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Napoleon vs. Tsar Alexander: Friendship and Rivalry
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Maccabean Revolt: How the Maccabees Beat the Seleucids
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