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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian
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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
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Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures?
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6 Outrageous Whaling Stories
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Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
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10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Happen?
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Who Is Satan in the Hebrew Bible?
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Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
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Ben Franklin in Politics: The Founding Father Who Was Never President
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
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Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne?
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The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
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What Are the Romance Languages?
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11 Events in the 19th Century that Changed the World
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
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When Was the First Crusade?
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
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George Washington’s The Revolutionary War Letter on Sale
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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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Niko Pirosmani: Get to Know the Tragic Hero of Georgian Art
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African History...
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Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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Fireside Friday, January 12, 2024
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a...
11 months ago
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Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections
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Odysseus in the Underworld
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“I Am Because We Are”: Introducing Ubuntu Philosophy
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Japanese Martial Arts: How Were They Invented (and Exported)?
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Le Missile passera toujours ... mais qui est prêt à l’admettre ?
Another of my essays in French.
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Another of my essays in French.
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What's Left ... And What's Left?
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Here’s What to Know About the History of Lake Como’s World-Famous Villa
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Patterns in Humanity
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Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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Sri Lanka’s Top 6 Must-See Historic Sites
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Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
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How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some odds and ends.
5 months ago
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Top Aces of World War II: 7 Talented Fighter Pilots
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Calm in the Face of Crisis
Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
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Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
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When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
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Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of...
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Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
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Philosopher Kings
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The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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The Legacy of Emperor Pedro II: Brazil’s Golden Age
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7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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Did Jesus Live in India?
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11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton...
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
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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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How French Was Medieval England?
How French Was Medieval England?
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Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
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How French Was Medieval England?
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Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
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Weekend Roundup
Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
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Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
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Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony
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7 of the Most Popular Hats in History
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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10 South American Artists You Should Know
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What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband
Should you meet your heroes?
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Should you meet your heroes?
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How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life?
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What Is Berlin Science Week? Everything You Need to Know
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Trying to Understand...
Things Are Falling Apart ...
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
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And the centre's not looking too good, either.
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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The Nemean Lion: Heracles’ First Labor & the Birth of a Hero
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America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age (Video)
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Sorites Paradox: Why Traditional Logic Is Not Omnipotent
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Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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The Stars of Sun Records: 4 Famous Singers
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Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?
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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...
over 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.
Summary Of Changes
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
uxn,...
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5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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Who Were the Legendary Mountain Men of the Old West?
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The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia
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Hidden History
The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at...
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In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at Kirtland Air Force Base just outside of Albuquerque NM. In January 1950, President Harry Truman announced that the United States would begin a crash program to develop and deploy a weapon...
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
Measuring the Shape of the Earth
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Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
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Measuring the Shape of the Earth
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Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:20
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Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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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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John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocket Divers (1962)
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
11 months ago
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: Who Was Julia Warhola?
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Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over 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 February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, started working on a fantasy console called Uxn, and...
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The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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Hundred Rabbits
Wood stove installation
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that...
over a year ago
It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that the best model was the cast iron Sardine from Navigator Stoveworks.
Our Espar forced air diesel heater broke on our last passage, and we decided not to replace it. There are few...
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Parmigianino Altarpiece Back On View After 10-Year Conservation
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The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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Germanus of Auxerre and His Connection to Arthurian Legends
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Who Is Ai Weiwei?
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
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Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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How Did the Islamic Golden Age Shape Knowledge and Discovery?
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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England’s Museum Collections Missing More Than 1,700 Objects
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Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s...
12 months ago
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
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On 17th century "cocaine"
A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
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A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
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10 Must-Visit East Coast Historic Landmarks
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Rationalism 101: A Historical Overview
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Who Are the Ku Klux Klan?
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10 Presidents Who Changed the US
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10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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Classics Friday
Gifts for Wisdom Lovers
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It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970,...
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The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles — but Dennis, an...
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Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas
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Global Inequality...
To all the newspapers I loved
The decline and fall of the print media.
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The decline and fall of the print media.
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Aspasia of Miletus: More Than Pericles’ Romantic Partner?
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Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
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This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
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Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
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Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
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What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China?
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What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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The Rembrandt Painting to Sell For $18.4 M. at Auction
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
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Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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Wieland: How Religious Extremism Shaped the 1st American Gothic Novel
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The Mystery of Penelope
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10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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The Life of Aristotle
More Than A Philosopher
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African History...
a brief note on the intellectual contributions of African scholars in the diaspora
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
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the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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CrimethInc.
The Eye of Every Storm : Anarchist Response to Hurricane Helene
At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30...
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At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30 inches of rainfall over two days when an unnamed storm collided with Hurricane Helene over the mountains of Southern Appalachia. The resulting catastrophe laid waste to the entire...
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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Wrong Side of...
Inside the Catholic State
The world that created Caravaggio
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The world that created Caravaggio
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5 Historic Locations From the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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Stoicism and Stress
Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
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Go Stress-Free with Philosophy
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The Dutch Throne in an Exhibition for the First Time
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What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini: A Friendship Ruined by Ghosts
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Magna Graecia
Greek or Roman?
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
8 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Twilight, updated our notes on chainplates, wheel to tiller conversion, cabin lights standing rigging replacement, Princess Louisa Inlet(added...
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Bayeux Tapestry: 9 Revelations from a Medieval Masterpiece
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6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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The Eiffel Tower: 12 Facts About the Iconic Parisian Landmark
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Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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