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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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Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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The Essential Greeks
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How Did Henry VIII Find a Bride through Portraits?
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A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
7 months ago
This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
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Death of a Samurai Legend
Death of a Samurai Legend
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Death of a Samurai Legend
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Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who...
6 months ago
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign my … Continue reading "Creating...
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Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini: A Friendship Ruined by Ghosts
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The Secret Life of Latin
Still A Living Language?
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Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market
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a brief note on European pirates and African states during the 'golden age of piracy.'
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
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a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
Patterns in Humanity
The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
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Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
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History of Tobacco: A Lucrative Vice
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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What Is the History of Thanksgiving?
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Who Won the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House?
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How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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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...
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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...
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Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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Fra Angelico’s Theology & Aesthetics in 3 Extraordinary Paintings
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Patterns in Humanity
When few do great harm
Power laws in criminal behavior
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Power laws in criminal behavior
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What Are the Recurring Symbols in Hilma af Klint’s Work?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
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 May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
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Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
6 months ago
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of...
a year ago
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
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7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist
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How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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Viking Ship Technology: Daring and Dangerous Innovations
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Women of Ancient Rome
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9 months ago
The First Roman Empress and More...
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Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 17, 2023
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in...
a year ago
Hey folks! Fireside this week! I was hoping to have a post on Roman infantry tactics this week, in particular the oddity of the Romans not using spear-and-shield infantry (much), but it isn’t ready yet and other things have me quite busy, so fireside it is. Fortunately, we have...
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Weekend Roundup
Memorial Day Weekend Sale
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Memorial Day Weekend Sale
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Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge.
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
6 months ago
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
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Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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What’s the Best Time to See Mount Fuji?
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Philosophy 101: What Are The 5 Major Branches of Philosophy?
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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Res Obscura
When technology follows art
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the...
a year ago
From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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Trying to Understand...
What Can You Do When You Don't Have A Culture?
Not that much, actually.
4 months ago
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Have We Become Anti-Human?
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
a year ago
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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Brussels Statue Supposedly Damaged by Irish Tourist
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Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot...
6 months ago
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot pictures for a story documenting people’s life in the city of Chicago. You can see Volume 1 of his photos here. The series of photographs was accompanied by an essay from the Chicago...
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8 Great Women Sculptors You Need to Know
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George Lindemann Family Returned Looted Items to Cambodia
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Reality Would Like A Word.
Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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Who Were the Disciples Thomas, Judas and Simon?
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*Time Correction for Wednesday
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The Vela Incident: Nuclear Bombs vs. Asteroid Collisions
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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Non-alignment: A Third Foreign Policy Option During the Cold War?
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5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav...
3 months ago
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
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How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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African History...
The radical philosophy of the Hatata: a 17th century treatise by the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
8 months ago
the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
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Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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What Is Marie Antoinette Syndrome?
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7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know
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Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
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Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
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Top 10 Historic Sites You Should See in Paris
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Italian Police Thwart “Tomb Raiders” at Etruscan Burial Site
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How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor?
Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
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Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
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A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
One I bought fifty years ago.
7 months ago
One I bought fifty years ago.
Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
10 months ago
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
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Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of the Mind
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala.
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies,...
3 months ago
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies, according to an authoritative study by Eugenia Herbert.
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The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know
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Wrong Side of...
The Phantom of Polarisation
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Do people actually disagree that much?
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Cars of Britain in the 1970s
In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of...
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In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
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5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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a brief note on the intellectual contributions of African scholars in the diaspora
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
8 months ago
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
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What Is the History of the Piggy Bank? (Curious Origins)
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What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”?
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was...
9 months ago
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions. Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
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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...
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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...
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Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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Alexander’s Destruction of Thebes in 335 BCE (Battle & Aftermath)
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Trying to Understand...
One Of My Essays In Dutch.
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and...
11 months ago
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
Dreams of Space -...
Hombres Del Espacio (1960)
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
a year ago
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:16
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‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
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African History...
Empire building and Government in the Yorubaland: a history of Oyo (1600-1836)
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
over a year ago
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
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Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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Trying to Understand...
Honesty: What's In It For Me?
First, do lots of harm.
a year ago
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
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[Ebook] The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius...
a year ago
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) gives you a prescribed way in which you can actually reduce genuine suffering in your life because Rome’s great “philosopher king” lays out a very compelling, very...
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
2 months ago
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
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