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The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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Italian vs. Northern Renaissance Art: What’s the Difference?
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How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire?
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The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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The Power Of Absent Things.
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The Story of Thebes
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From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten city-state...
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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How to Organize an Assembly : Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism
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Monet’s London Paintings to Reunite After 120 Years
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I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry.
Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
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Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
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Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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What Was Organization Todt?
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Weekend Roundup
Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
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How Economist John Maynard Keynes Essentially Predicted World War II
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French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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An Art-lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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Was Emperor Nero Universally Hated During His Reign?
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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Wed, 12/20/2023 - 00:00
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
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Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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Sufism: Mystical Islam in Africa
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How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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Exploring Soviet Brutalism Through 9 Iconic Buildings
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:28
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On the Spot: Ali Ansari
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How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
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The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her...
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Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat. “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
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4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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Musée Rodin to Launch Shanghai Outpost in September
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What is Objectivism? Ayn Rand’s Philosophy
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Art Philanthropy in the US Depends on Prestige
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No Left Turn
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Workers and Peasants we are not.
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A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’?
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My Substack in Other Languages.
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10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis
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3 Key Ideas in Environmental Ethics
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Hearing the language of Christ on the road to Damascus
Notes on Christian Syria
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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Van Dyck Rare Drawing Could Sell for $1.2 Million at Christie’s
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6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
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12 Facts About Marina Abramović and Her Work
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10 Must-Visit East Coast Historic Landmarks
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Machu Picchu Unveiled: Why Hiram Bingham Didn’t “Discover” It
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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What Were the Consolations of Boethius?
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
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Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
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 December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
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For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
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The History and Beauty of the Moscow Metro
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post...
a month ago
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
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6 Surrealist Techniques You Probably Haven’t Heard of
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism?
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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...
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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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5 Deadliest Sword Designs
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Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
a year ago
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ib: Subjects of the Successors
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the...
11 months ago
This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the Hellenistic army and its Macedonian phalanx and the Romans with their legions. Last week, we looked at the weapons, organization and fighting style of the Macedonian phalanx, the infantry...
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What Was the Carnation Revolution?
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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...
7 months ago
‘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...
Dreams of Space -...
Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
a year ago
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
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How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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Flashbak
Trees at Night: Art Young’s Haunting Silhouettes, 1927
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands...
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“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. As a man is, so he sees.” – William Blake Arthur Henry Young – better known as Art Young (January 14, 1866–December 29, 1943) – saw humanity in the … Continue...
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History of Chariots: 10 Types from Ancient Cultures Explained
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Open Culture
Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious...
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further...
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A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further sightings in various locations in the region have been lodged on a daily basis, and anxieties about the origin and purpose of these unidentified flying objects have grown apace. “We...
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
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This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
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Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR
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Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay?
Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
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Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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The “Arch”: Who Was Desmond Tutu?
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The Essential Greeks
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African History...
Anti-slavery laws and Abolitionist thought in pre-colonial Africa
the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
9 months ago
the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
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Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933
“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often...
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“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before, and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them’ – Helen Keller Helen Keller is best known for her campaign to help the disabled and support for...
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Understanding Egyptian Astrology: What Is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign?
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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5 Famous Assassins Who Changed History
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures...
a year ago
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures the spirit of doing it for yourself as Johnny and his friends build (and dream of) a spaceship for a journey from their backyard. It is pure fantasy but as you will see there is a...
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Lucian Freud Nude to Make $20 Million Auction Debut
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8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour
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How Important Was Theseus for Athens? Theseus: Get to Know the Mythical King of Athens
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Why are MYTHS Important?
Podcast with Stephen Fry
6 months ago
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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a year ago
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
8 months ago
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09
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Is Plato’s Republic a Feminist Work?
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Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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