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What Language Did the Ancient Romans Speak?
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
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“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
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At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending over an estimated 1.2 million square kilometers in West Africa. Encompassing at least five modern African states, the empire produced some of the continent's most renowned historical...
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Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
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The African Mask: From Worthless to Priceless
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Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars
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Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines. A collection of his interviews, with the likes of Udo Kier, Divine, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Tura Satana, was published in the volume Dark Stars Rising: Conversations from the...
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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Who Is the Archangel Gabriel?
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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A History of the United States Senate
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Bringing It All Back Home
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If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
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Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963)
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More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
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Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
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The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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I Have No Brain But I Must Scream.
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But why aren't people in other countries listening?
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What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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The Birth of Ovid
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How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
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Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign
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Hildegard of Bingen: Get to Know a Medieval Polymath’s Life
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How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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FDR: How Roosevelt Won Unprecedented Four Presidential Elections
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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The Devil’s Dictionary: The 50-ish Best Descriptions From The Cynic’s Word Book, 1906
Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka...
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Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
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The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story
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At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical...
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Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
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Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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5 Important Stories About Thor the Norse God of Thunder
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The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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Walter Benjamin: What are the Connections Between Language and Theology?
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Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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Ancient Remains of Two More Victims Discovered at Pompeii
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Immigration and crime: Sweden
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Io Saturnalia!
Celebrate the “Best of Days”
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Celebrate the “Best of Days”
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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Neanderthal Nonsense: Debunking Myths About Our Ancient Cousins
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What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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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...
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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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
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Typhoons and mold
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
over a year ago
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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What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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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.
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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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6 Incredible Roman Sites in Spain
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Why not Keynes?
Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In...
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You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain – America, A Horse With No Name We don’t know where British … Continue reading "American...
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Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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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...
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Dreams of Space -...
A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy (1964)
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am...
4 months ago
An apology to my long time followers. I had stopped posting months ago when I got too busy. I am also having to work much harder to find /create new posts. So let me try every 2 weeks for a while and see how I do.
A Visit to the New York World's Fair was the official World's Fair...
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A Green-Hued Banksy Mural in North London
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10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in England
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The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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North Pacific Logbook
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing...
over a year ago
The passage from Japan (Shimoda) to Canada (Victoria) took 51 days, and it was the hardest thing we've ever done. We decided to keep a logbook, to better remember it and so it can help others who wish to make this trip.
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French Archaeologists Excavate a Castle Beneath a Historic Town
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Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King
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The Scariest Sermon Ever? Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On
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Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
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Russian Civil War Propaganda: Posters & Propaganda Trains
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Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
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They know what they think.
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Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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Who was Rasputin and Why is He Famous?
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Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.
You don't need to know that.
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You don't need to know that.
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Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump
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Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths
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Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Kent
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Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos
Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge...
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Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge came upon this album of pictures. “I find images that resonate with me and then with that I try to bring their characters to life in my work,” she tells us. “I bought the slides on...
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Will it Bend or Will it Break?
The international system, that is.
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The international system, that is.
Classical Wisdom
Will There Be “Crazy” People?
Symposium on the Seas...
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African History...
A history of the Damagaram sultanate of Zinder: ca. 1730-1899.
Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
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What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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20 Roman Emperors Who Defined Ancient Rome
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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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...
Flashbak
One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
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On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown Heights to see the skaters at Brooklyn’s Empire Roller Disco. Formerly the Empire Rollerdrome (built 1941), the rink was now all disco. It was where Cher hosted the release party for...
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Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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Here’s What to Know About the History of Lake Como’s World-Famous Villa
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7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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African History...
The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
TheCollector
Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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Res Obscura
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
African History...
A history of the south-western Saharan towns of Tichitt, Walata, Wadan and Chinguetti (800-1912)
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
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Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
TheCollector
What Did the Beat Generation Want?
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What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
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Who Was the Only U.S. President to Serve More Than Two Terms?
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African History...
The kingdom of Ndongo and the Portuguese: Queen Njinga and the dynasty of women sovereigns...
The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
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The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which...
11 months ago
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which people will get individual jet-powered wings to fly. It is set a little like a fantasy and a little like a dream. It has "perfect" 1950s illustrations about how the future might...
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In Defence of Boring Books
In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
9 months ago
In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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History Today Feed
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 09:21
African History...
A complete history of Zeila (Zayla): ca. 800-1885 CE.
Journal of African cities: chapter 14
3 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 14
Open Culture
Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens...
3 weeks ago
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest
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Is The Digital Era Truly Destroying Art?
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Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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Trying to Understand...
Out Of Control.
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
2 months ago
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
TheCollector
Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Will The West Eat Itself?
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
a year ago
Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
TheCollector
Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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Flashbak
Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city...
9 months ago
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city before there was a Selfridges or Harvey Nichols, and no Bullring as we know it today. Birmingham was a place of subway shops and underground passages that are now filled in and...
Global Inequality...
The end and the beginning of history
Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
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Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
Hidden History
The Ocarina
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
2 months ago
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
TheCollector
Work Begins on Naples’ New Archaeological Museum
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6 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II,...
a year ago
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
TheCollector
Who are the Yazidis & What Are Their Beliefs?
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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Classical Wisdom
How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
4 months ago
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
TheCollector
Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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US President or American Caesar?
US President or American Caesar?
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
3 months ago
US President or American Caesar?
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Who Were the Samaritans?
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Weekend Roundup
Changing Seasons
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Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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How the South Became Republican
How the South Became Republican
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
4 months ago
How the South Became Republican
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
TheCollector
The Most Dramatic Operation to Recover Looted Native American Art
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TheCollector
NY Denny Gallery Shuts Down After Ten Years
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Weekend Roundup
Classical Wisdom Books
a year ago
TheCollector
Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
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College Culture in the US & The Vietnam War: An Unlikely Connection
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5 Great Reads by Charles Dickens
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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4 Novels by John Steinbeck You Should Read
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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What’s the Difference Between Goth and Punk?
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Hinduism in Bali: Things You Need to Know
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Wrong Side of...
Technology indistinguishable from magic
Our age of miracles: the medical breakthroughs of 2024
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Our age of miracles: the medical breakthroughs of 2024
Flashbak
The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always...
8 months ago
“If ‘technology’ is that which is invented after we are born, and ‘stuff’ is that which has always been around, for those born now, computers, the internet and mobile phones are just stuff – in fact, it would be impossible for recent generations to imagine a world without these...
TheCollector
Pope Visits Venice Biennale For First Time
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Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
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Marcus Aurelius' Birthday Celebrations
TheCollector
Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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Hidden Figure Identified in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco
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Flashbak
British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
8 months ago
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease pudding and saveloys, what next is the question? Rich gentlemen have it boys – in-di-gestion! – Food Glorious Food from the muscial oliver by Lionel Bart, 1968 You didn’t need...
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Norman Rockwell Works Dispute Finally Over?
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Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
3 months ago
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
TheCollector
Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language
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What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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When Was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
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Flashbak
Cold Snapshots – Vintage Holiday Fun in the Snow and Ice
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection...
a year ago
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection of images. A dip into Robert E. Jackson’s sublime collection of snapshots never disappoints. And when you’ve seen the cards, you should enjoy his pictures of revellers rocking...
TheCollector
10 Charming Medieval Villages in Austria to Visit
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‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
7 months ago
‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
JamesHoare
Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:54
Classical Wisdom
Do You Need Children to Care About the Future?
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
4 months ago
Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
TheCollector
The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
4 months ago
On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
TheCollector
Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments?
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4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know
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TheCollector
Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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Classical Wisdom
Artemisia of Caria
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
a year ago
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
TheCollector
Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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TheCollector
Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots?
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TheCollector
Discover Norman Rockwell’s America (& His Legacy)
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5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays In French
And some odds and ends.
5 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Rules, Rules Rules
Because that's all they can do.
9 months ago
Because that's all they can do.
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...
Overcoming Bias
What Culture Can You Trust?
Star Wars came out when I was 17, and made a big impression on me; I loved it.
3 days ago
Star Wars came out when I was 17, and made a big impression on me; I loved it.
TheCollector
$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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TheCollector
Nature Aided in the Creation of the Great Sphinx of Giza?
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the...
a year ago
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
Global Inequality...
Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
a year ago
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
Dreams of Space -...
Outer Space (1953)
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was...
2 months ago
An oldie from 15 years ago (The last time I blogged about this one). I found my copy of this and was able to add a lot more scans of this early space treasure. Outer Space was evidently a give-away comic book at Atlantic Richfield gas stations. For those of you who did not know,...
TheCollector
Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Useless in Gaza
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
a year ago
As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
History Today Feed
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/12/2024 - 08:48
9 months ago
Reforming England’s Divorce Law
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/12/2024 - 08:48
Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
2 months ago
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Lives of Exiles
10 months ago
African History...
Roads and wheeled transport in African history.
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
a year ago
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
TheCollector
Here’s What to Know About the Oldest High School in America
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‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
6 months ago
‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
Trying to Understand...
No More Heroes.
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
a month ago
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
TheCollector
6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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11 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Looking Into Science (1965)
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965...
over a year ago
Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
TheCollector
Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ Targeted Again After Protestors Jailed
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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Princess Diana ‘Black Sheep’ Jumper Sold for $1.1 M.
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a year ago
TheCollector
Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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TheCollector
Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits...
2 months ago
The houseboats, blast furnaces and shipbuilding are gone. Ian Macdonald’s photographs are portraits of times past. These pictures cover three of the photographer’s major bodies of work from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s: Greatham Creek; the Redcar blast furnace and Smith’s Dock...
TheCollector
7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Myths and Metamorphoses
6 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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9 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
7 months ago
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
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‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
2 months ago
‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:11
TheCollector
Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
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8 months ago
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The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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Interview with Margaret Iversen: What Was Freud’s Impact on Surrealism?
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mystery of the Mind
a year ago
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How Has the Tower of London Changed Over Time?
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Mystery of Morpheus
Who is the God of Dreams?
a year ago
Who is the God of Dreams?
History Today Feed
‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/26/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/26/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
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3 months ago
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