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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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African History...
The radical philosophy of the Hatata: a 17th century treatise by the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ Heads to Auction
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Who Won the Battle of Stones River?
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What Role Did Women Play in World War II?
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African History...
The pyramids of ancient Nubia and Meroe: death on the Nile and the mortuary architecture of Kush
a complete history of an African monument
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a complete history of an African monument
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What Were the Major Battles and Conflicts of the Medieval Period?
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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Who Was Vercingetorix?
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Who Were the 43 Group?
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Which Biblical Scriptures Present Gratitude at Thanksgiving?
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Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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Dreams of Space -...
Looking Into Science (1965)
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965...
over a year ago
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
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Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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What Was the Oregon Trail? History and Legacy
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
j.hoare
Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
TheCollector
Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
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Flashbak
The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us...
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Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
TheCollector
Founder of Arianism: Who Was Arius?
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
‘Just Stop Oil’ Protestors Cover Stonehenge in Powder Paint
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Who Is the Archangel Gabriel?
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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The Disaster That Was Napoleon’s Russian Campaign: An Overview
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What Are the Scientific Roots of Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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Classical Wisdom
Classics Friday
Gifts for Wisdom Lovers
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
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Trying to Understand...
War Is Complicated.
And not just the fighting bit.
a year ago
And not just the fighting bit.
TheCollector
10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga?
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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The 6 Major Causes of the French Revolution
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$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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Global Inequality...
The politics of physiocracy
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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15 Facts About Genghis Khan & His Legacy
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Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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a year ago
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
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What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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Trying to Understand...
Will The West Eat Itself?
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
a year ago
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
TheCollector
Does Free Will Exist?
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10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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Flashbak
A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
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Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an...
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Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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How Did Solomon’s Temple Influence Worship?
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Abkhazia’s National Art Gallery Works Destroyed by Fire
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The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath)
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Who Was George Hodel?
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What Was Big Week? How the Allies Won Air Superiority
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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5 Inspirational Women From the Second World War
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Pandemic Literature From Homer to Covid-19
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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Trying to Understand...
Candles and Kalshnikovs.
Please help us not to understand.
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Please help us not to understand.
Flashbak
The Death of A New Jersey Shopping Mall
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next...
6 months ago
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next few years as vacancy rates are increasing due to the pandemic, a slowed economy and increased online shopping. Photographer Phillip Buehler captured the death of the Wayne Hills mall...
TheCollector
Who Are the Klu Klux Klan?
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Classical Wisdom
Gaius Marius
... and the Fall of the Republic
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... and the Fall of the Republic
TheCollector
Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
a year ago
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
TheCollector
Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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Res Obscura
A very deep history of Halloween
Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
a month ago
Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
TheCollector
Who Is the Real Banksy? Rumors Behind the Street Artist
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The 4 Most Controversial Historical Events from the Past 200 Years
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Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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Flashbak
Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
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‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
TheCollector
Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93
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6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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History Today Feed
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
Britons Caught in the French Revolution
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Britons Caught in the French Revolution
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Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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TheCollector
How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire?
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TheCollector
5 Forgotten Fights on the Eastern Front in WWI
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
9 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added gimballed stove, open pantry, Little Ninj and LPG fume detection system. Updated galley refit and Western Canada(includes tidal/current...
TheCollector
11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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TheCollector
Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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TheCollector
Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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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...
Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures...
a year ago
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures the spirit of doing it for yourself as Johnny and his friends build (and dream of) a spaceship for a journey from their backyard. It is pure fantasy but as you will see there is a...
TheCollector
Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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TheCollector
What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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Flashbak
Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in...
5 months ago
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s. Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found...
TheCollector
Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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TheCollector
What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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Classical Wisdom
How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
a year ago
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
TheCollector
10 Artworks by Yoko Ono You Should Know
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TheCollector
Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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TheCollector
Geneva Exhibition Shows Rare Picasso Works
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as...
a year ago
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its...
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire
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Bouquets, Veils and White Dresses: Where Did Western Wedding Traditions Come From?
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History Today Feed
The Allure of Medieval Churches
The Allure of Medieval Churches
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
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The Allure of Medieval Churches
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/30/2024 - 09:12
TheCollector
Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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Dreams of Space -...
The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a...
a year ago
This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
TheCollector
The Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March
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Classical Wisdom
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Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
a year ago
Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...
TheCollector
How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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6 Places to Visit in Cape Town for History & Art Lovers
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5 Influential African Leaders of the 20th Century
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Monet’s London Paintings to Reunite After 120 Years
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Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
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What Are the 4 Main Jewish Sects?
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Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide in the United States: a summary
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
2 months ago
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
TheCollector
8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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Dreams of Space -...
World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It...
a year ago
A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
TheCollector
Bronze Age Town Found in Saudi Arabian Desert
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Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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TheCollector
Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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Flashbak
Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
11 months ago
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
TheCollector
Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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Hundred Rabbits
where is the turtle farm
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the...
over a year ago
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the market, or of the company to be found here, but just of having that same view every morning. We love this city, but when it's time to go, it's time to go!
We left our mooring at...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Aristotle on Friendship
a year ago
TheCollector
Franz von Stuck: German Symbolist Painter & “Prince of Art”
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TheCollector
Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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History Today Feed
Inventing Cyrillic
Inventing Cyrillic
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
7 months ago
Inventing Cyrillic
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:21
TheCollector
6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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Flashbak
Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
8 months ago
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
TheCollector
What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy?
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History Today Feed
Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
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Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:20
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Babylon’s Mystery Goddess
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:20
TheCollector
The Future of US Elections: Potential Changes and Emerging Issues
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Was Honorius’ Letter Really Sent to Britain?
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TheCollector
Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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Flashbak
László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and...
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László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
Classical Wisdom
Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
What should we do with Seneca?
a year ago
What should we do with Seneca?
TheCollector
What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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Hundred Rabbits
captain what is this
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
over a year ago
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
History Today Feed
‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
a year ago
‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
TheCollector
How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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TheCollector
The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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TheCollector
Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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Flashbak
Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
3 months ago
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
TheCollector
Largest UK Holbein Exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
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Exploring the Troubles in Belfast and Derry (Monuments & History)
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Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know
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The Bumpy Ride to Yerevan: What Can a Road Trip in Armenia Teach You?
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What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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How Frans Hals Revolutionized Dutch Portrait Painting
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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What Are Nietzsche’s 4 Most Famous Quotes?
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Trying to Understand...
The Third World War Has Been Cancelled.
It was all too difficult, finally.
5 months ago
It was all too difficult, finally.
History Today Feed
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
9 months ago
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
TheCollector
How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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History Today Feed
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
11 months ago
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
TheCollector
The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon
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Who Won the Battle of Nashville?
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TheCollector
5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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African History...
Kingdoms at the forest's edge: a history of Mangbetu (ca. 1750-1895)
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has...
7 months ago
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has a long and complex history shaped by its internal cultural developments and its unique ecology between the savannah and the forest. Among the most remarkable states that emerged in...
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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Global Inequality...
Trump and the Rise of Asia
My interview with "Atlantico"
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My interview with "Atlantico"
TheCollector
Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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History Today Feed
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
a month ago
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
TheCollector
The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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How Does Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom Criticize Socialism?
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The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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Dreams of Space -...
Cosmonaut-2 (1964)
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely...
over a year ago
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961.
Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
TheCollector
The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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What’s the Context of Good Friday? From Passover to Crucifixion
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Christie’s to Auction $30 Million Basquiat Stretcher-Bar Painting
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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Hundred Rabbits
doldrumming
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
over a year ago
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
History Today Feed
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
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Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
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Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
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How Did the Opium Wars Impact China?
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TheCollector
The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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TheCollector
Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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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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Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising
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Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century. During this period, a whole range of retailers advertised their goods and services to appeal to ladies and gentlemen of taste. Without discussing anything so base as price or...
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‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review
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But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
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Part One, anyway. More next week.
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
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American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no point in trying to achieve anything else in life. As he put it: “If it’s not fun, there’s no point!” A new book of his conceptual photographs illustrates the point. Above, you can see...
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And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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Did Andy Warhol Immortalize Marilyn Monroe?
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I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a cold and grim Christmas in 1977, that’s exactly what happened. While many Britons were settling in for a warm yuletide, the Pistols decided to host a party/benefit for the...
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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War in Dreamland
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Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
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Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 1
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over a year ago
Women's Day magazine also got involved in the spaceflight fad in the early 1950s. This 1953 (August) issue had a number of space related articles including: Will Your Child Visit The Moon? The article makes the case to the mothers of America that travel into space and the Moon is...
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9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever
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I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954.
Lion Weekly was a magazine for children with comics and stories. (from Wikipedia...
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Georgian Wine: The World’s Oldest Wine Producer in 4 Great Wineries
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How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
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With Harvard Professor James Hankins and 'History of Philosophy without any gaps' Peter Adamson.
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What Are the Strengths of Determinism?
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over a year ago
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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4 Diseases That Impacted & Altered Human Existence
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5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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Distant Worlds (1932)
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Borrowing from a book-seller...
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An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.
Borrowing from a book-seller description:
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Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
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‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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Who Were the United States Indian Scouts?
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
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Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, added 100r logo to splash screen on the rom.
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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Wilfred Owen: Britain’s Tragic War Poet
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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A George Washington Portrait Goes on Sale, Held at the Met
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A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
a year ago
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
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This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
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Tadeusz Kościuszko: 6 Facts You Didn’t Know
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How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance?
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Ancient Marble Zeus Head Unearthed in Türkiye
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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Who Was Gabriele D’Annunzio?
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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Who Were the Black Panther Party?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 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 September.
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How Did the Tudors Celebrate Christmas?
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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