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Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland?
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How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism?
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Spartan Training
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
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What should we do with Seneca?
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Egypt Luxury Retreat Offers Guests to Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb
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Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
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In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
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Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who...
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These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who spent 32 years as a patient of the Hospital for Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders in Branice, Poland. Admitted to the hospital’s Psychopathological Art Expression workshop in...
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Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works
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5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims
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What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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History Today Feed
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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Top 10 Depictions of the Annunciation in Art
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Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
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Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead
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In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the...
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Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In Your Face. Like Mark...
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The Year's Midnight.
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Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
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Encaustic Painting: An Ancient Art Form Explained
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Why Is Joan of Arc a Feminist Icon in Modern Times?
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Levina Teerlinc: A Woman Artist of the Tudor Court
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Getting Used To Being Weak.
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Who Was Walt Whitman?
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American polarisation
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What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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Explore Montmartre Through Van Gogh’s Eyes: Views of Paris
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Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
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Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
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Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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On the Obscenity of Ovid
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Summary of changes for January 2023
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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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added electrical refit(portal for AC & DC...
Res Obscura
Why drug history?
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Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
“Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’...
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“Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’ received by George King from space, 1954 On May 8th 1954, London taxi driver George King was doing the household chores when he heard a voice. What came to be known as “The Command”...
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10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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6 Crazy Facts about Cape Town
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Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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The Prado Museum Shows Paintings in Different Light
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Thomas Gainsborough: 7 Facts You Need to Know
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Discover Norman Rockwell’s America (& His Legacy)
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What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIa: How a Legion Fights
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second...
10 months ago
This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander and the Roman legions. Last time, we looked at the Hellenistic army as a complete system, incorporating...
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9 Revelations from Viking Runes
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Summary of changes for October 2023
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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.
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Thousand Rooms, added a Brazilian Portuguese version.
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10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
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Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
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How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
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And Now for Something Completely Different.
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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...
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Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
Dreams of Space -...
Mole Rocket (1965)
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece...
over a year ago
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
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$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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Which US President Served the Shortest Time in Office?
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10 Must-See Exhibitions in Europe This Year (2025)
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10 Must-Visit Utah Ghost Towns With a Rich History
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Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
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They know what they think.
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Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter?
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What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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On the Tory Cult of Personality and its Consequences
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Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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African History...
a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa.
a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
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a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
History Today Feed
The KGB After Stalin
The KGB After Stalin
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
a year ago
The KGB After Stalin
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned...
9 months ago
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street. I notice a kind of relaxed sensuality in many of the pictures. Time moved more slowly;...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
a year ago
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
TheCollector
8 Sneaker Trends to be on the Look-out For in 2024
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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
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
j.hoare
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
TheCollector
The Unification of England & the Death of the Kingdom of Mercia
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