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The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
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Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
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Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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Typhoid Mary: A Trail of Scandal & Death
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
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10 Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh You Should Know
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In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at...
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In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at Kirtland Air Force Base just outside of Albuquerque NM. In January 1950, President Harry Truman announced that the United States would begin a crash program to develop and deploy a weapon...
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Summary of changes for April 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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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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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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Moon Fleet Log Book (1966)
The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came...
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The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
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Anti-slavery laws and Abolitionist thought in pre-colonial Africa
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the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
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9 Unskippable Memorials in Washington DC
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Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE): Alexander’s Achaemenid Armageddon
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A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments
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Flashbak
Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the...
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Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
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What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art...
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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...
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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...
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When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
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Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
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Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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Thanatos: The Greek God of Death
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Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
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Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change
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Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a photography series of everyday people at work and at home in urban America, having been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 as New American Life. In his introduction to...
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Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge?
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Sorites Paradox: Why Traditional Logic Is Not Omnipotent
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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100r.co, added electrical refit(portal for AC & DC...
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Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
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Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
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Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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Who Was Douglas Adams? The Iconic Science Fiction Writer
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Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
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Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
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“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter ...
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8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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A Brief History of Blackface (& Its Legacy)
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100r.co, added Ketchikan, Snug Cove, Ratz Harbor, Frosty Bay, Berg Bay, Wrangell, Petersburg and Ruth Island Cove. Updated library.
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Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly?
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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Hunter S Thompson Sets Fire To His Christmas Tree (1990)
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10 Facts You Should Know About Henri Matisse
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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History Today Review of the Year
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What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Battle of Poitiers, by Charles de Steuben, 1837, via Wikimedia Commons
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The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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10 Must-See Exhibitions in Europe This Year (2025)
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Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
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Top 10 Historic Sites to See in New York City
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African History...
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This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old World’ from the classical period to the turn of the 20th century.
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
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Should We Navel Gaze?
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Tate Modern Reopens Its 10th Floor Viewing Platform
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A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
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Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Emblemata
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Open Culture
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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Rastafarianism: Religion or Philosophy?
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War in Dreamland
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Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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History Today Feed
Calling Time on BC and AD
Calling Time on BC and AD
JamesHoare
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 09:01
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Calling Time on BC and AD
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
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100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
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Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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5 Transformative Leaders That Shaped British History
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Against Liberalism: What is Communitarianism?
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What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States?
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Are the Aesir Gods the Villains of Norse Mythology?
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Catching Nessie on Film
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Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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8 Unmissable UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia
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The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
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6 Assassinations That Changed History
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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Why Do People Give Gifts at Christmas?
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6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
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Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
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What Was Pope Innocent III’s Role in the Medieval Crusades?
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7 Most Impressive Villas and Palaces to Visit in Rome
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Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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Frank Stewart’s Portraits of The American Journey – A Story of Jazz And Justice
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“Just how somebody in photographs can treat black people with dignity. That I’d never seen before” – Frank Stewart Frank Stewart (born 1949) was 14 when he took his trained his Kodak Brownie on the March on Washington for Jobs in Freedom, otherwise known as the Great March in...
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Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
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JamesHoare
Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
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