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Moon Trip (1958)
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Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
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The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has a long and complex history shaped by its internal cultural developments and its unique ecology between the savannah and the forest. Among the most remarkable states that emerged in...
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How the Lisbon Earthquake Shook the Enlightenment
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
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Who Was Geoffrey of Monmouth? The Man Who Made Arthur and Merlin
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Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
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What Is the History of Constitution Day in the US?
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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How did Mao Lead China, and What did He Leave Behind?
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Dick Wolf Gives More Than Two Hundred Pieces to the Met
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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History Today Feed
Moving With the Times?
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray...
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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Global Inequality...
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
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Classical Wisdom
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over a year ago
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TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal.
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Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars
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10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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How Did Nils Bohlin Change the Auto Industry? (Inventor of the Three-Point Seatbelt)
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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
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History Today Feed
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
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over a year ago
It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
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A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
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A History of the US House of Representatives
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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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The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions. Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
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Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President
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Van Gogh & Gauguin: A Fiery Friendship Between Two Post-Impressionists
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors
This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic...
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This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those...
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Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
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7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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Honesty: What's In It For Me?
First, do lots of harm.
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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How Does Mona Hatoum Turn Ordinary Objects into Artworks?
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Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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James Joyce's Ulysses
Retelling of the Odyssey
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Delian League: Rise & Fall of the Empire of Athens
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How Are Art and Science Related?
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What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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Weekend Roundup
Lost and Found
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7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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Why Early Modern Books Are So Beautiful
Three theories
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/07/2024 - 09:43
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Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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Restoration Reveals Ancient Colors of Egypt’s Edfu Temple
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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...
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement
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Moscow: Uncover a Near-Millennium of the City’s History
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Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
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Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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Summary of changes for June 2023
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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 June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added propeller maintenance, Maple Bay, Telegraph Cove,...
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5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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The Tragedy of Ajax
Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
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Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
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What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank...
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Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
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6 Mythological Creatures Found on Tarot Cards and Their Meaning
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Overcoming Bias
Capitalism, Govt Causes Culture Woes?
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
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Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
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Exploring Soviet Brutalism Through 9 Iconic Buildings
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Iakim Volkov’s Wedding: An Illustration of a Complicated History
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The Eiffel Tower: 12 Facts About the Iconic Parisian Landmark
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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The Death of A New Jersey Shopping Mall
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next...
6 months ago
There are about 1,000 malls in the US, and it’s estimated that one in four will close in the next few years as vacancy rates are increasing due to the pandemic, a slowed economy and increased online shopping. Photographer Phillip Buehler captured the death of the Wayne Hills mall...
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
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Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
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Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a...
3 months ago
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
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Conservative Resurgence in the US: Traditional, New Right, & Tea Party
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Celtic Art: A Brief Introduction
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weird medieval guys
Why medieval artists drew ancient Romans in medieval clothes
Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
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Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
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Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children
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Why I love etymologies
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
7 months ago
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words matters
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What Is David Hammons Best Known For?
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$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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African History...
on the Nubian priests of Rome and the Moors of Spain
When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain...
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When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain and became one of the most celebrated Andalusian poets, he wasn't the first from his region to visit the Moorish kingdom.
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Art Philanthropy in the US Depends on Prestige
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Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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Cassandra: Princess of Troy, Cursed Prophetess, Tragic Prisoner
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Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack
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What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
4 months ago
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
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Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
4 weeks ago
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
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Who Was Oscar Wilde?
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
8 months ago
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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How Did the Megali Idea Shape Greece Until the Balkan Wars?
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Summary of changes for January
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 January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Left, re-wrote documentation, redesigned the UX for...
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What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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Dreams of Space -...
Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars (1960)
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A....
a year ago
Just another quick re-run of an older book, enjoy!
Cox, Donald W. Illustrated by Kocher, W. A. Stations in Space: Our Stepping Stones to the Stars. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. (55 p.) 1960.
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The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes
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Pearl Harbor: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy!”
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Due to Protests
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Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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Trying to Understand...
China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
And don't say a word about Europe.
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And don't say a word about Europe.
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Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ Targeted Again After Protestors Jailed
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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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10 Historic Towns in Texas Perfect for Retirement
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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African History...
a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
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The Mystery of Morpheus
Who is the God of Dreams?
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Who is the God of Dreams?
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The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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Liu Bang: How a Peasant Became Emperor of China
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
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Who Was Pasquale Paoli, the (Other) Corsican Revolutionary?
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Spice Wars: The European Fight for the Spice Trade
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards...
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The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
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projects and pain
We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new...
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We arrived in New Zealand with a long scary list of things to fix or replace on Pino. We needed new batteries, a new mainsail, a fresh coat of bottom-paint, galley plumbing, new intermediates shrouds, new backstay, new top hatch, new windows, new control cables etc.
'If we can't...
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
The Women who Forged Medieval England
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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The Women who Forged Medieval England
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
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Freak Shows: The Truth Behind Beauty and the Beast
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Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions
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Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
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Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
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Shakespeare’s Sister Speaks
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/12/2024 - 10:11
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L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
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A Glimpse into the Past: An Overview of Ancient Greek Theater
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10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
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Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
j.hoare
Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
j.hoare
Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus...
a year ago
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
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Weekend Roundup
The End of the World?
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of Asia
plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
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plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
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5 Strange Election Systems Around the World
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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What Is Relational Aesthetics?
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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Neanderthal Nonsense: Debunking Myths About Our Ancient Cousins
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The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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When Was the First Flight in History?
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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Why not Keynes?
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Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
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Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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What Was the Dreyfus Affair?
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
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In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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