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Where Are the Best Travel Destinations for Shakespeare Fans?
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875
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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
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What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
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What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
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The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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The Two Trojan Wars
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Saint Nicholas Becomes a Myth
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Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
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10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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Venus of Urbino: How Titian Reinvented the Nude
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What Was the Ecological Impact of the Columbian Exchange?
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10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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What Are the 5 Greatest Protest Songs of the 20th Century?
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Abstract Expressionist Alfred Leslie Through 7 Paintings
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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Trying to Understand...
The Wrong Stuff
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
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Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
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What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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Are There Still Lepers? The History of Leprosy in 5 Chapters
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The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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Previously Unknown Giorgione Painting Found in Germany
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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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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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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Top 10 Depictions of Witchcraft in Art
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No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
So who does?
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Who Was Geoffrey of Monmouth? The Man Who Made Arthur and Merlin
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The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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What Are the Books of the Old Testament? Order & Overview
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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How Did the Tudors Celebrate Christmas?
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Summary of changes for October 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a month ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Rabbit Waves and Logbooks. Updated woodstove installation, no windlass with 1 photo, mini dodger and Victoria to Sitka logbook with Week 3...
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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10 Terrifying Japanese Yōkai (Supernatural Creatures)
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Festivals of Resistance : A Call for Gatherings the Weekend Before Trump Takes Office
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
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Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
Classical Wisdom
No Women Allowed?
Greek Theater and Gender
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Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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Can War Be Justified? A Philosophical View
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
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Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
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10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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Trying to Understand...
No End Of A Lesson.
If we can only learn it.
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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5 Deadliest Sword Designs
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History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a...
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In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a mini-portfolio of 12 postcards. Eight are by Huja, plus four in colour by Neil Winokur and a sleeve by Ken Tisa. The postcards for maverick boutique owner Dianne Benson are lovely...
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Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray...
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade....
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The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
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The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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John Cassavetes: Who Was The Godfather of American Independent Cinema?
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Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture
Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re...
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Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re their likelihood and desirability. (I later added influence.) Here are best fit priorities (relative to 100 max), sorted by priority sum:
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Federalism in Ancient Greece: The Forgotten Side of Ancient Greek Politics
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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Res Obscura
Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
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Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
African History...
On Hegel's ignorance of African History
*my article for ROAPE journal
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*my article for ROAPE journal
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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Did Jesus Live in India?
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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Overcoming Bias
No Meta Status Orgs
In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to...
a month ago
In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to many specific medical conditions, and also to studying and reforming medicine in general, at a meta level.
TheCollector
Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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Classical Wisdom
The Death of Literary Fiction.... And its Resurrection?
A New -different- Event
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TheCollector
Who Were the Disciples Thomas, Judas and Simon?
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Flashbak
The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
a year ago
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
CrimethInc.
How to Organize an Assembly : Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism
There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to...
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There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to solve their problems, suddenly realize that their only hope is to make contact with others like themselves and work together. Perhaps a hurricane has just torn through the state,...
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These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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Trying to Understand...
Books To Help Us Understand The World?
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
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Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
Hidden History
The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had...
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The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had its origin some 400 years ago in early attempts by the Shoguns to ban gambling and European playing cards. History When the Portuguese arrived in Japan in 1543, they established...
TheCollector
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid?
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How to Revive Wassailing
How to Revive Wassailing
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How to Revive Wassailing
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Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
TheCollector
A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Prevent Character Assassination?
Corruption in the Ancient World
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Corruption in the Ancient World
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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Classical Wisdom
How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
Advice from the Ancients
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History Today Feed
The Vienna Secession is Founded
The Vienna Secession is Founded
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
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Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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Classical Wisdom
Does Karma Exist?
Does what goes around come around?
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Does what goes around come around?
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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Operation Market Garden: Success and Failure for the Allies
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Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach,...
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The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
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German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
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What Is the History of Thanksgiving?
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William Blake’s Cottage to Be Preserved as a Museum
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Who Was Vernon Lee?
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Classical Wisdom
Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
Or does war have its virtues?
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Or does war have its virtues?
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The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
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What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
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The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the astrological magazine The Prophetic Messenger (1827 to 1861). More commonly known as Raphael’s Almanac in a nod to the Jewish archangel Raphael, the name was used a nom de plume by a...
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Weekend Roundup
Monsters and Myths
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Weekend Roundup
The Julio-Claudians
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Newest Banksy Mural Guarded After Vandalism
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10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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Wise Men & Witches: Magic in the Bible
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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What Is Christian Gnosticism? (History, Tenets, Legacy)
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs
Factoids From the Ancient World
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Factoids From the Ancient World
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The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s...
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“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying On January 13, it’s Saint Knut’s day in Finland, which usually marks the end of the Christmas season. And the Nuuttipukki is at your door. The strange, goat-like creature is a thirsty man dressed in...
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and...
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Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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Upcoming Events
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Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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A History Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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Monet Haystack Painting Could Fetch $30 Million at Auction Next Month
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1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Beginning of the USSR’s End
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How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973)
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
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“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955 …...
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
a year ago
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
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Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
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Hundred Rabbits
leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
over a year ago
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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What Was the Purpose of Mesopotamian Ziggurats?
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