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Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
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What Are Paul Cezanne’s Most Famous Paintings?
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
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We left our mooring at...
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New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s...
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Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s mix of fashion, art, and music at clubs like Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager’s Studio 54 and Howard Stein and Peppo Vanini’s Xenon, where nightlife and performance met. Distribution...
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How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert...
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“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert Mallet-Stevens In 1924, French architect and designer Robert Mallet-Stevens (March 24, 1886 – February 8, 1945) published La Gazette Des 7 Arts magazine and founded the Club des amis du...
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What Was Judith Leyster’s Contribution to Dutch Painting?
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Who Was Django Reinhardt?
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What Are the Best Museums in Trieste, Italy?
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New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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Trying to Understand...
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Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
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Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
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Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
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What Is the Ides of March?
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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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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.
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the historical context of the Hatata in African philosophy.
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to...
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The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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A Brief History of Mount Everest
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8 Unmissable UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia
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10 Essential Works of Greek Philosophy
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Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra...
4 months ago
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra pay For sitting on their arse all day! – London Underground by The Amateur Transplants Peter Marshall shows us pictures of stations on the London Underground, Docklands light...
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Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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Hundred Rabbits
internet in paradise
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging...
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Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef.
Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
Dreams of Space -...
Das Neue Universum, Volume 67 (1950)
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Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older children.
From the German Wikipedia site (translated) : "The New Universe is a German children's literature series with themes in the fields of knowledge , research , adventure and...
Classical Wisdom
The Art of Pompeii
Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
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Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
Open Culture
When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
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Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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How important are dreams?
Should we pay attention to them?
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An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
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Malta & Its Role in World War II: A Crucial Fortress Island
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What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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TheCollector
Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career
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The Great Emu War: When Australians Lost to Flightless Birds
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Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
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The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
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The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
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What Were the Religious Beliefs of Hans Holbein the Younger?
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The First Roman Empress and More...
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11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine...
6 months ago
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book. The drug was illegal – still is, of course – and publishing a book on it is risky. But it an effort to produce the...
Classical Wisdom
How Should We Treat Our Enemies?
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a year ago
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12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God
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Alexander’s Destruction of Thebes in 335 BCE (Battle & Aftermath)
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Who Was Rosa Luxemburg and Why Was She Important?
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Who was Rasputin and Why is He Famous?
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
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6 months ago
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
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The Roman Question: The Pope vs. the New Nation of Italy
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Pera Palace: The Istanbul Muse for Literary Giants
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Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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Another Of My Essays in French
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The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
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8 months ago
First published in 13th Century Paris, the Avicenna, Canon Medicinae is an illustrated medical text book made from tempera and gold leaf on parchment. Shelf marked Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 0457, the work is a Latin translation of Avicenna’s Canon medicinae, one of...
Classical Wisdom
The Life of Aristotle
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African History...
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"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
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What Was Kristallnacht? The Horrors of the Night of Broken Glass
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FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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Rudolf Otto and His Revolutionary “Idea of the Holy”
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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...
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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...
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Unlikely Politics: The History of the World Chess Championship
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How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories)
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Ships Then Swans: Ian Macdonald’s Pictures of England’s Teesside in the 1970s and 80s
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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...
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Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
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Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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What Is Anxiety to Soren Kierkegaard?
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions?
What should we do with Seneca?
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What should we do with Seneca?
TheCollector
Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language
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12 Facts About Marina Abramović and Her Work
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Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and...
4 months ago
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and not finished until 1967. All 26 letters are created in individual gouaches on paper, in exotic human form (and later formed print editions). This exhibit was a hit when it was first...
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Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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Interview with Dr. Roberta Bondar: Intertwining Art and Science
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
12 months ago
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
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What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?
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CrimethInc.
How to Organize an Assembly : Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism
There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to...
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There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to solve their problems, suddenly realize that their only hope is to make contact with others like themselves and work together. Perhaps a hurricane has just torn through the state,...
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7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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What Are the Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela?
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Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? Part II
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost...
7 months ago
This is the second and final part of our look at Alexander III of Macedon (Part I), who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. Last week, we looked at the sources for Alexander’s life, the historiography (that is, the history-of-the-history) of his modern reception and...
TheCollector
A Colossal Ramses II Statue Pieces Uncovered
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Was Edith Wilson the First Female President of the United States?
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Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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Surprising Results of The British Museum’s Internal Investigation
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Classical Wisdom
How to Save Democracy
The Importance of the Civic Bargain
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The Importance of the Civic Bargain
TheCollector
5 Key Myths About the Greek God Hades
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Medieval Anglo-French Wars (1076-1453): A Brief History
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What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
TheCollector
Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A...
4 months ago
In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A member of the Reflex photography group, led by documentarian Diane Bush, a young American established documentary photographer, Portus wanted to show the everyday things people...
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What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
JamesHoare
Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
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The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
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Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens
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8 Things You Should Know About Gustave Moreau
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Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections
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Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
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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...
4 months ago
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...
A Collection of...
Michael Taylor on The Development of the M1 Garand and its Implications
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an...
a year ago
This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successful World War II and Korean era battle rifle, introduced in 1936. A fantastically...
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TheCollector Interviews Contemporary Artist Toni Mauersberg
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African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of the Old world
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
a year ago
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
TheCollector
Edward VII: The Rebel Prince Who Became a Popular King
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Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin
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Classical Wisdom
The Essential Greeks
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***Now Enrolling: Starting July 1st, 2024
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added electrical refit(portal for AC & DC...
TheCollector
10 Essential Movies to Watch to Understand Film Noir
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How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter?
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Who Are the 144,000 and the Great Multitude in the Book of Revelation?
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Dr Paul Cartledge on Alexander the Great’s Tomb, Netflix & More
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What Are the Most Iconic ‘Original’ Photos of Yellowstone?
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What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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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...
6 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...
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Weekend Roundup
Golden Age of Latin Literature
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Golden Age of Latin Literature
Hidden History
The Last Day of World War One
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the...
a month ago
At 5am on November 11, 1918, the French, British, American and German representatives signed the armistice treaty that formally ended hostilities in the First World War. Under the terms of the Armistice, the war would officially end at 11am that day. All the troops in the...
TheCollector
How Did Religion Influence Law in the Ottoman Empire?
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New Year, Old Books
New Year, Old Books
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
5 days ago
New Year, Old Books
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
TheCollector
First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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Patterns in Humanity
Recidivism in Norway
Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
6 months ago
Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
TheCollector
The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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