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Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
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This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
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The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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Peter Pan goes to Ukraine
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained
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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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Michigan Museum Displays Rich History of Cambodian Art
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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Overcoming Bias
Capitalism, Govt Causes Culture Woes?
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Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2023
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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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, updated jib cars, and added new recommendations on the...
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
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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...
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Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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Dr Paul Cartledge on Alexander the Great’s Tomb, Netflix & More
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Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art
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5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About
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The Mystery of Morpheus
Who is the God of Dreams?
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Who is the God of Dreams?
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Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s...
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Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
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Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point
On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off...
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On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali (24 Oct 1953 – 4 May 1978), a Bangladesh-born textile worker in an area off Brick Lane, was stabbed to death in London, in a racially motivated attack. Paul Trevor’ photographs mark how East London’s Bengali activists fought for survival and the right to...
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Last Call for Classical Gifts
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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How the CCP is Closing China
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Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:47
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How the CCP is Closing China
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10 Norse Goddesses You Need to Know
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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Dreams of Space -...
A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
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An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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Middle Kingdom Pyramids: The Lesser Known Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like...
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“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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What to Expect from Art Market Budapest
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How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide
Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
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Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
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Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
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Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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Weekend Roundup
Aristotle's Politics
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
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Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
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The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the...
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For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the pointy guitar, the hair, the band, the drive, the tights, the most piercing scream outside a Pee Wee Herman meets Cher Christmas convention. And you also had the hair. In the 1980s …...
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What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
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What Are the Five French Republics?
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What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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African History...
A political history of the Kotoko city states (ca. 1000-1900)
Urbanism and state building in the lake chad basin..
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Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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What Is Theodicy?
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The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone...
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The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone monuments in Africa south of Nubia.
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Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports
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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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Edie Sedgwick: Who Was Andy Warhol’s Protégé Starlet?
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Summary of changes for January
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Hades
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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Summary of changes for April
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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 April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
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Catching Nessie on Film
Catching Nessie on Film
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Catching Nessie on Film
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Thu, 05/16/2024 - 09:41
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Chili Pepper’s Fiery History: The Berry That Conquered the World
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Monsters and Myths
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Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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The (history of) spice must flow
Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
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Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
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Nefertiti: The Enchanting Story of the Lady of the Two Lands
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The Kitchen Debate: Khrushchev vs. Nixon
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Did Surrealist Artists Write?
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How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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Norman Rockwell Works Dispute Finally Over?
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Does Karma Exist?
Does what goes around come around?
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Does what goes around come around?
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A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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Thu, 02/15/2024 - 09:26
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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African History...
A history of the Loango kingdom (ca.1500-1883) : Power, Ivory and Art in west-central Africa.
Africa's past carved in ivory
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Africa's past carved in ivory
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Are There Still Lepers? The History of Leprosy in 5 Chapters
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Trying to Understand...
The Wages Of Fear
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Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
Classical Wisdom
Where did the time go?
Important Notice
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In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s
“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington...
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“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington on his Living Room project Time to step back inside British homes in the late 1980s with photographer Nick Waplington’s Living Room series. Published as a book in 1991, the...
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What Is Conceptual Photography?
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
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10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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La Llorona: Latin America’s Vengeful Ghost in Film & Literature
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa,...
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This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) look at the how the Roman military system and its manipular legion were able to defeat the Hellenistic military system and its Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and...
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Columbine 25 Years On
Columbine 25 Years On
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Columbine 25 Years On
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
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Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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Socrates and the Soul
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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Open Culture
A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
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The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
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Artemisia of Caria
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
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Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
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What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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Jean Cocteau: A Complete Insight (Bio & Art)
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Gigantomachy in Greek Mythology: Olympian Gods vs Giants
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Trying to Understand...
Russia/Ukraine is not a sports competition.
Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
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Victory in war requires a bit of thought.
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The Future of US Elections: Potential Changes and Emerging Issues
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How Did the Capetian Dynasty Turn France Into a Superpower?
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10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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Hunter S Thompson Sets Fire To His Christmas Tree (1990)
“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller...
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“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller before the writer torched his Christmas Tree In January 1990, Sam Allis was on assignment for TIME magazine at writer Hunter S. Thompson’s (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) home...
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Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby...
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These illustrations are from Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809). Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and Royal Academy-trained illustrator who specialised in drawing plants and minerals. The full title of his illustrated...
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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3 Key Ideas in Environmental Ethics
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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