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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
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Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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How Has the Tower of London Changed Over Time?
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Early Modern Europe’s Inexplicable Obsession With Eunuchs
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Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
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For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
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But striking poses is fun and easy.
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Egypt’s Giza Restoration Bid Faces Backlash From Archaeologists
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The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas?
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The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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History Today Feed
The Value of Wills to Historians
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over a year ago
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Leeds Kids the 1970s
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Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the picture below of kids ‘tobogganing’ down a dry, rocky slope in the northern English city of Leeds in the 1970s “The Cresta Run”. It is not the original Cresta Run, which is a...
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Explore Montmartre Through Van Gogh’s Eyes: Views of Paris
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The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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Harold Lloyd’s Amazing Christmas Tree
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Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches AI “Art Explorer”
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Here are a few modest ideas.
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition: What is an Active Life?
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The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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Women in Art History: Great Female Artists Who Were Long Overlooked
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Who Was Susan Sontag?
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You And Whose Army?
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NATO would do well to stay out of Ukraine.
TheCollector
Cotton & How It Changed the World
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A Collection of...
Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
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History Today Feed
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
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The Prophecies of Merlin
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The Met Reveals Design for New Modern and Contemporary Wing
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History Today Feed
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
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Mon, 09/30/2024 - 10:39
TheCollector
Why Did Claude Monet Paint Series of Paintings?
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History Today Feed
‘D-Day Has Come’
‘D-Day Has Come’
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Mon, 05/20/2024 - 09:05
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Mon, 05/20/2024 - 09:05
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6 Crazy Facts about Cape Town
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A Collection of...
Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
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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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Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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7 Unanswered Questions about Minoan Bull-Leaping
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Hunter S Thompson Sets Fire To His Christmas Tree (1990)
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Casta Paintings in Colonial Mexico: How Accurate Were They?
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Open Culture
An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
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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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10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital?
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This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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How Do Stoics View Wealth, Success, and Happiness?
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7 Models of Henri Matisse You Should Know About
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Secrets of the Scythians
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Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
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How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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What to See if You Only Have a Day at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 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 July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Sitka, and completed route in {us se alaska}.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
Hakum, added two drawings to the...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July
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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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Adelie, added image maps, animation controls, and wrote a guide....
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12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God
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Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
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Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
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Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
Flashbak
The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
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The Swazi kingdom and its neighbours in the 19th century: from the rise of Zulu to the British
an island in the maelstrom
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an island in the maelstrom
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The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness
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A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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Tue, 03/26/2024 -...
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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Tue, 03/26/2024 - 09:54
African History...
The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)
Journal of African cities chapter 8
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Journal of African cities chapter 8
Classical Wisdom
Seneca On Clemency
A Letter To Emperor Nero
a year ago
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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7 of the Most Iconic Monuments in Russia
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Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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Myths and Metamorphoses
6 months ago
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Principality of Sealand: The Smallest Nation in the World?
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History Today Feed
How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 00:00
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/09/2024 - 00:00
Overcoming Bias
Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
2 months ago
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
TheCollector
How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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TheCollector
Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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Hidden History
The Story of the Cow
The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000...
3 days ago
The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000 distinct breeds of Cattle in the world today, and somewhere between 1 and 1.5 billion individual animals, making them, by some counts, the fourth most numerous mammal in existence behind...
Patterns in Humanity
Recidivism in Norway
Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
6 months ago
Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
TheCollector
Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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TheCollector
What Is the Gettier Problem?
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Tate Modern Reopens Its 10th Floor Viewing Platform
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Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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Denim: The Fabric That Built America
Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images...
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Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images mostly from the 1940s, show how the fabric became synonymous with American grit and productivity. The look was born in 18th Century Europe. Bleu de Gênes was the rough fabric...
TheCollector
What Are the Origins of Santa Claus?
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The Infancy Gospel of Thomas & the Childhood of Jesus Christ
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Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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Open Culture
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
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We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
TheCollector
Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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TheCollector
The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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TheCollector
What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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Flashbak
Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
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To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
TheCollector
Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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The Soldier with a Secret: Who Was Sarah Emma Edmonds?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this...
7 months ago
Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this week, but not quite ready to get started yet. I’m also thinking, perhaps before that, of doing a short post or set of posts on the organization of non-state ‘tribal’ societies in...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I: Aristocrats, Retainers and...
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in...
6 months ago
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. As moderns, we are so familiar with the way that states function that the far older systems of non-state organization and...
TheCollector
The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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Flashbak
A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
8 months ago
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi, a Thai folding book that opens from top to bottom. It was made in the 19th century in central Siam (now Thailand) by an unknown artist. Such folding books were typically made from...
TheCollector
Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Canada?
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Dionysus
The God of Wine!
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What is the WORD? How can we understand Logos?
Do Words Matter?
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TheCollector
Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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TheCollector
Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man?
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Wrong Side of...
Fellow believers or fellow citizens?
Liberalism dies in darkness
2 months ago
Liberalism dies in darkness
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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Classical Wisdom
Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives?
How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
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How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
Classical Wisdom
[Coming Soon] The Essential Greeks
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Trying to Understand...
The Third World War Has Been Cancelled.
It was all too difficult, finally.
6 months ago
It was all too difficult, finally.
TheCollector
Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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Hundred Rabbits
Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
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For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
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The 5 Most Ridiculous Ways the CIA Tried & Failed to Kill Fidel Castro
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The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 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 November.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
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Anarcho-Capitalism Explained in 5 Steps
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Was the Spanish Influenza the First Global Pandemic in the Modern Era?
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Flashbak
Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank...
11 months ago
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
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FDR: How Roosevelt Won Unprecedented Four Presidential Elections
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5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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A History of the House of Savoy: From Its Origins to Its End
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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Poland Nixes Planned Venice Biennale Pavilion
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Hume on Personal Identity: Who Are We?
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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Alexander’s Destruction of Thebes in 335 BCE (Battle & Aftermath)
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America Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age (Video)
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Overcoming Bias
Hail Jeffrey Wernick
I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional...
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I started to write about prediction markets in 1988, and not until 1999 about using conditional markets to make org decisions.
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The Essential Greeks
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Trying to Understand...
Into the Waste Land
Nothing connects.
a year ago
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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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...
8 months ago
“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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A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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Wrong Side of...
The Indian-American century
On the Anglo-Indo-sphere
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8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau
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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
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
TheCollector
What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Lives of Exiles
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Open Culture
How Leonardo da Vinci Painted The Last Supper: A Deep Dive Into a Masterpiece
When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work....
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When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work. Not that he’d been idle: in that same era, while working for the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, he “developed, organized, and directed productions for festival pageants, triumphal...
Trying to Understand...
Macron is Safe for the Moment
But the future worries me.
a year ago
But the future worries me.
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The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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How Were the Twelve Tribes of Israel Formed?
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What Turned the Tide in the Battle of the Atlantic?
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5 Inspirational Women From the Second World War
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Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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Expressionism: 12 Iconic Paintings & Their Artists
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African History...
a brief note on the history of indigenous and foreign religions in African history, and the Kimpasi...
The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various...
4 months ago
The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various denominations, with a relatively small fraction adhering to other belief systems often referred to as 'indigenous' or 'traditional' religions.
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What Was Négritude?
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays
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Weekend Roundup
Classics Gifts!
a month ago
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Aristotle’s Model of Communication: 3 Key Elements of Persuasion
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Flashbak
El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned...
3 months ago
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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a year ago
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
j.hoare
Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
a year ago
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
j.hoare
Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
TheCollector
Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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Classical Wisdom
How to Celebrate the Love of Learning
Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
a year ago
Give a Graduate the Greatest Gift!
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The 10 Most Beloved Urban Parks in the United States
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10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit
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Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections
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Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity?
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5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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Abstract Expressionist Alfred Leslie Through 7 Paintings
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New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations
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Stained Glass Sold At Sotheby’s is Stolen From Notre Dame?
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a year ago
Res Obscura
On 17th century "cocaine"
A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
2 months ago
A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
History Today Feed
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
11 months ago
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
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Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
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Mount Toba: Did a Supervolcano Almost Wipe Out the Human Species?
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8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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Weekend Roundup
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
a year ago
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
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Philip II of Macedon: The Man Who Made Alexander “Great”
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5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
Ode to the Giants
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Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)?
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10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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10 Incredible Artworks by Félicien Rops
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V),...
a year ago
This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
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What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire?
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African History...
A muslim kingdom in the Ethiopian highlands: the history of Ifat and Adal ca. 1285-1520.
During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most...
6 months ago
During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most powerful dynasties, whose history significantly shaped the region's social landscape. The history of one of these dynasties, often referred to as the Solomonids, has been...
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Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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a year ago
Flashbak
New York City In The 1960s – A Photographer’s Love story
For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that...
a month ago
For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that I love – New York City,” she says. ” On a good day, I move with the rhythms of the city and feel connected to its soul, spirit and people. The camera is the tool that allows me …...
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Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the...
a year ago
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
Dreams of Space -...
Cosmodrome (1987)
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is...
a year ago
Cosmodrome is a paper cut-out book that you could use to build a cosmodrome. Admittedly it is published in 1987 so it is way out of scope for my blog. But it has some great visuals and so I think it is worth sharing. I have never had the nerve to cut this out and build it. Most...
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Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
5 months ago
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE)
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
People, States and Borders.
And other dubious ideas.
4 months ago
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5 Quotes by Kant Explained
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Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History
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French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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9 months ago
African History...
Historical links between the Ottoman empire and Sudanic Africa (1574-1880)
travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
a year ago
travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
TheCollector
What is Digital Art? A Brief History and Tips for Collecting
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Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
7 months ago
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:47
TheCollector
New Study Rewrites History of Stone Age Architecture in Near East
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How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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African History...
a brief note on Africa in 16th century global history.
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
10 months ago
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Villages in Portugal
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the...
a year ago
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
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Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
9 months ago
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
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Egyptian Sun-god: Who Is Ra?
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The History and Beauty of the Moscow Metro
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7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To
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How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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How Mexico Fought Franco
How Mexico Fought Franco
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
9 months ago
How Mexico Fought Franco
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:21
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How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation
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The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven?
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A History of the Free City of Danzig (Now Gdansk)
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The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
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James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
7 months ago
James I: A Foreign King on the English Throne
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/21/2024 - 08:46
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Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Story of Thebes
a year ago
Flashbak
A Day At New York City’s Off-Track Betting in 1982
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000...
2 months ago
In 2010, around 50 Off-Track Betting (OTB) parlors around New York City were shuttered. 1,000 employees lost their jobs. And another part of old New York went the way of the Automat and the Times Square peep show. The New York State Legislature enacted its first off-track betting...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly,...
6 months ago
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples raised armies to fight the Romans (and others) in the third through first centuries BC. Last time, we looked at the subsistence basis of these societies...
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What Makes a Celt & Did They Ever Inhabit Britannia?
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