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At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
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How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the...
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
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Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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When Did Operation Husky Take Place?
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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Winged Victory
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6 (In)Famous Gunslingers of the Wild West
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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6 Assassinations That Changed History
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CrimethInc.
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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African History...
a brief note on the long history of African diplomacy.
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Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings?
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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
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The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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Get to Know the Nazca People and the Mysterious Nazca Lines
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Silvio Berlusconi’s Worthless Art Collection
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Patterns in Humanity
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No Cheers for Authoritarianism
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How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
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6 Crazy Facts about Cape Town
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Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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Einstein vs. Bergson: A Historic Debate About Time
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Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition: What is an Active Life?
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Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM
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What Did the Vikings Really Look Like?
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Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
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Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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Seafaring, trade and travel in the African Atlantic. ca. 1100-1900.
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The Mother Goddess of Rome
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Who Was J. Edgar Hoover?
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3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination
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The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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What Are the 6 Tallest Mountains in Alaska?
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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The Coming Of Neo-Tribalism.
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Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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A Collection of...
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Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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Flashbak
Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
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Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain
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Arguing with the Dead
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The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact
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6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
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TheCollector
Archaeologists Unearth a Building in the Valley of the Temples
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From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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The Evolution of Socialism and Its Influence in the US
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On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
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On the Spot: Gina Anne Tam
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The True Knights Templar
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TheCollector
What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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Wrong Side of...
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Dream About Gagarin (1961)
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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Flashbak
Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great...
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 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 September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
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9 Unskippable Memorials in Washington DC
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British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos
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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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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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What Are the Books of the Old Testament? Order & Overview
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
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Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC. For the album Are You Experienced, photographer Karl Ferris snapped the band with...
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The Furies
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The Life of Plato
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
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It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
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Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General
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What Is the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)? Origins & History
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10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
j.hoare
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:58
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India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
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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 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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A history of the Massina empire (1818-1862)
the sucessor of Songhai
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‘Spiral Jetty’ Added to National Register of Historic Places
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Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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Dreams of Space -...
A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
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An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
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Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
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Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
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5 Inspirational Women From the Second World War
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