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10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time
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In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
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How Did Solomon’s Temple Influence Worship?
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7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg?
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10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
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This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their encyclopedia. It was also a nice "free" classroom supplement for teachers trying to teach about the coming space age.
This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
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Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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How Much?! Barbers & the Price of Shaving.
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One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
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Paul Feyerabend: How Should Science Ideally Be?
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The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
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A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
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6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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9 Artists Influenced by Marcel Duchamp
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Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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How Did Francisco Goya Criticize the Spanish Society?
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‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
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German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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Is Nietzsche Associated with Moral Nihilism?
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The Stars of Sun Records: 4 Famous Singers
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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
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Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
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Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?
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Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
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In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
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FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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Secret of the Stoics
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17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection
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Alhambra Palace: A Testament to Spain’s Rich Islamic Heritage
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Getting Used To Being Weak.
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Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt
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The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans
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What Is the Didache?
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Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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Rastafarianism: Religion or Philosophy?
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Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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King John’s Lost Treasure
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Was Emperor Nero Universally Hated During His Reign?
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Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
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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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What Are the Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela?
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Stoicism and Stress
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How to Steal From Homer
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Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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Hendrik Verwoerd’s Life & Death: The Architect of Apartheid
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Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation
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Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not”
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
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Summary of changes for October 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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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.
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
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The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
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The Philosophy of Time: Study the Nature of Past, Present, and Future
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The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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Cecil John Rhodes: Life and Legacy of a British Imperialist
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Urbanism in the forest region.
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Urbanism in the forest region.
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Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
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5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America
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What Is the Origin of Cowpox (& How Did It Cure Smallpox)?
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5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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Who Was Saint Basil of Caesarea?
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Bragi Boddason: The Viking Skald Who Became a God
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Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army
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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History?
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13 Surprising Facts About William Shakespeare
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What Would a Day in the Public Baths of Ancient Rome Look Like?
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Spanish Museums To Distance Themselves From Colonial Framing
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Rome’s Worst Nemesis: What was the Sassanian Empire?
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12 Facts About Marina Abramović and Her Work
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Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)?
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What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
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6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism
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L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
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Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Somerset
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Global Inequality...
Abundance, capitalism and climate change
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In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict
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On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness
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6 Female Pre-Raphaelite Artists You Should Know
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century
What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
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What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
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Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
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How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place”...
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“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place” – William S. Burroughs It wasn’t all writing, drug taking, walks among the mysteries, cut ups, fomenting revolution, guns and launching assaults on Soho coffee bars in a typical...
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Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
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‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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Gaius Marius
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... and the Fall of the Republic
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A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
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The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Everything You Need to Know About the Tragedy
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The Past Is Another Country.
A book review from the future.
5 months ago
A book review from the future.
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